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Conspiracy of the Pintos

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The area around the present day GPO (General Post Office) in Panjim is called São Tomé. The present GPO building used to be the old tobacco house, and the building to its right was the Government Mint. The area in front of these buildings was the old Panjim pillory and used to be the site of public
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The conspiracy being made known to the authorities, they took vigorous steps to pre-empt it. Some of the conspirators fled in disguise to British territory. However, the authorities arrested and punished 47 persons, including 17 priests and seven army officers.
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P. Kamat writes that the protests of the various priests she studied for their non-submission to the Portuguese authority in Goa were by and large manifestations of personal grievances arising out of racial discrimination and administrative abuses.
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party. The incident was used to represent the Goans to the British government and to the Christians in British India as untrustworthy, rebellious and willing to compromise with their own enemies (Tipu Sultan). This became Goa's
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to the authorities (the conspirators had approached him to poison the Army's bread supplies), thereby preventing invasion from the Muslim sultanate and similar ill-treatment of Goan Catholics as what was taking place during the
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and participated along with the "juring" clerics in the Revolutionaries' brutal persecution of the Catholic Church in France and elsewhere. Two Pinto brothers Lt. Col Francisco and Jose Antonio joined the army of the
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For decades after, the Conspiracy was used as a stick to defame and denigrate Goan missionaries and priests in British India by their opponents, the Vicars Apostolic of the Propaganda party, Goans being of the
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They were tied by ropes and dragged by horses for 40kms, after which their hands were chopped, head severed from their body and property confiscated and children and grandchildren branded by infamy.
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da Cunha Rivara, Joaquim Heliodoró. Goa and the Revolt of 1787, New Delhi: Concept Publ. Company, 292 pgs., 1996. (Author was the Portuguese Chief Secretary of the Goa Government from 1855 to 1877)
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José António and Caetano visited Rome and Portugal to plead for their appointment as Bishops in Southern India dioceses, but these Goan priests were bypassed in favour of
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against the lack of using the fertile land for proper cultivation. This was one major cause of anger of Jose Antonio Pinto who saw it as a loss of earnings for the local
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The local colonial administration continued to follow a policy entrenched with colourism. This was prior to constitutionalism in Portugal which occured in 1822.
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Gonçalves fled to British territory and lived the remainder of his life as an English teacher in Calcutta. Abbé Faria teamed up with the revolutionaries of the
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Kamat, P. Some Protesting Priests of Goa, in T.R. de Souza (ed.), Essays in Goan History, New Delhi, Concept Publication Co., 1989 : 103-117.
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permeated across Europe many Goans living in Lisbon including José António and Caetano and Jose Antonio Pinto, (the son of Inacio Pinto).
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which is one of the major accounts of the Pinto Revolt and subsequently translated into English by Dr. Charles Borges.
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José da Rocha Dantas e Mendonça, a Judge of the Goa High Court, who was in charge of the inquest into the conspiracy
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Ignacio Pinto, head of the Pinto clan and a fervent supporter of Fr. Faria, who was to be installed as the
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were elected to the first parliament in Portugal, a practice that continued till the
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While the revolt failed, Goans did achieve stronger forms of Government and when the
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executions, and was where fifteen conspirators of the failed revolt were executed.
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The leaders of the plot were three prominent priests from the village of
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and after continued pressure by Indians, the St. Thomas clerics (e.g.
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Coat of Arms of the Pintos, awarded by the King of Portugal in 1770
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Revolutionaries who received death sentences on 13th December 1788
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Borges, C. J. Goa and the Revolt of 1787, 1996, 290 pgs. $ 22
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An account of this was done by the Portuguese civil servant
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The conspiracy was revealed by a Goan Catholic baker from
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Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
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There was also much anger against the government of
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Goa

Candolim
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American War of Independence
Portuguese India
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Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
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Bishop Joseph Kariattil
Tippu Sultan
Mysore
Salcette
Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam
French Revolution
Maratha Empire

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