This article analyses the history of village deities in Goa from premodern times in order to understand the interactions between received traditions, the temple and the colonial state with regard to rights over temples and ...

This paper attempts to analyze the debate between the scholars concerning the nature of Virashaivism. While one category of scholars characterizes Virashaivism as anti-Brahmanical and anti-Vedic, another category of ...

In the sixteenth century and later, several Gauda Saraswat Brahmanas (GSBs), who originally belonged to Goa, migrated in large numbers to coastal Karnataka in Southwestern India, presumably due to the conversion policy ...