The Goa Inquisition: what Wikipedia removed
The Goa Inquisition is a 1961 history book on the Portuguese Inquisition’s persecution campaign in colonial Goa, India. The opening once described the book as detailing “the wholesale massacres of Hindus, Muslims, Indian Jews and non-Catholic Indian Christians by the Portuguese inquisitors.” That description is gone from the opening, though massacre survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the book documents the Portuguese Inquisition’s massacres of Indian Jews alongside Hindus, Muslims and other Christians.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| colonial | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- A disambiguation note clarifying the article covers the book, not the historical inquisition itself, is gone.
- The description of the book’s account of massacres of Hindus, Muslims, Indian Jews and non-Catholic Christians is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 323337862):
Note : This article is about an academic publication. For details on the actual Goa Inquisition see Goa Inquisition The Goa Inquisition, Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India is a book published by Bombay University Press and authored by Indian historian Anant Priolkar . It provides the most comprehensive account of the Goa Inquisition held by Portuguese colonialists in Goa , India in the 16th century and details the wholesale massacres of Hindus , Muslims , Indian Jews and non- Catholic Indian Christians by the Portuguese inquisitors.
2025 (revision 1295114636):
1961 history book by Anant Priolkar This article is about a book. For details on the Goa Inquisition, see Goa Inquisition . The Goa Inquisition, Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India is a book published by Bombay University Press and authored by Anant Priolkar . It is a narrative of the Goa Inquisition organised by the rulers of Portuguese Goa .
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