The Goa Inquisition, was established in 1560 by Portuguese missionaries. It was aimed primarily at Hindus and wayward new converts and by the time it was suppressed in 1774, the inquisition had had thousands of Hindus tortured and executed by burning. The British East India Company engaged in a covert and well-financed campaign of evangelical conversions in the 19th century. While officially discouraging conversions, officers of the Company routinely converted Sepoys to Christianity, often by force. This was one of the factors that led to the First Indian War of Independence.[47]
Some Narrations by different Authors

E T Whittington, writes as follows:
“ As to the torture itself, it combined all that the ferocity of savages and the ingenuity of civilized man had till then invented. Besides the ordinary rack, thumb-screws, and leg crushers or Spanish boots, there were spiked wheels over which the victims were drawn with weights on their feet; boiling oil was poured over their legs, burning sulphur dropped on their bodies, and lighted candles held beneath their armpits.[48] ”

Alexandre Herculano, a famous writer of the 19th century, mentioned in his “Fragment about the Inquisition”:
“ ...The terrors inflicted on pregnant women made them abort....Neither the beauty or decorousness of the flower of youth, nor the old age, so worthy of compassion in a woman, exempted the weaker sex from the brutal ferocity of the supposed defenders of the religion.... ”

Herculano in his another book, History of the Origin and Establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal mentions that,
“ ...There were days when seven or eight were submitted to torture. These scenes were reserved for the inquisitors after dinner. It was a post-prandial entertainment. Many a time during those acts, the inquisitors compared notes in the appreciation of the beauty of the human form. While the unlucky damsel twisted in the intolerable pains of torture, or fainted in the intensity of the agony, one inquisitor applauded the angelic touches of her face, another the brightness of her eyes, another, the volluptuous contours of her breast, another the shape of her hands. In this conjuncture, men of blood transformed themselves into real artists !![49] ”

An article of Rajiv Srinivasan (Source: The Empire of the Soul, Paul William Roberts, Harper Collins, 1999 quoted in the Saint Business, Rajiv Srinivasan, Hindu Voice, in November 2003, page 4)[50]:
“ Children were flogged and slowly dismembered (*tear or cut limb from limb) in front of their parents, whose (*parents") eyelids had been sliced off (*so they couldn"t close their eyes) to make sure they missed nothing. Extremities (*the hands and feet) were amputated carefully, so that a person could remain conscious even when all that remained was a torso (*the trunk of the human body) and head. Male genitals were removed and burned in front of wives, breasts hacked off and vaginas penetrated by swords while husbands were forced to watch... And it went on for two hundred years. ”
Few Quotes on Goan Inquistion

* Famous French philosopher Voltaire quotes about Goan Inquisition [51][52]

“ Goa est malheureusement célèbre par son inquisition , également contraire à l'humanité et au commerce. Les moines portugais firent accroire que le peuple adorait le diable , et ce sont eux qui l'ont servi. (Goa is sadly famous for its inquisition, also contrary to humanity and commerce. The Portuguese monks made us believe that the people worshiped the devil, and it is they who have served) ”

* Historian Alfredo DeMello describes the performers of Goan inquisition as,[53]

“ nefarious, fiendish, lustful, corrupt religious orders which pounced on Goa for the purpose of destroying paganism (ie Hinduism) and introducing the true religion of Christ ”

* Richard Zimler, a famous novelist in his novel Guardian of the Dawn quotes as,

“ Goa Inquisition the most merciless and cruel ever developed. It was a machinery of death.[54] ”