Title: The Relic State
            
                Studies in Imperialism
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.
Subjects: Portuguese, Colonies, Religious aspects, Colonial influence, History, Francis xavier, saint, 1506-1552, Portuguese india, India, history, Church history