The Relic State
            
                Studies in Imperialism
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780719090615
Description: This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the 'incorrupt' corpse of Sao Francisco Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish Basque Jesuit missionary-turned-saint.