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The Goa Inquisition was the office of the Portuguese Inquisition acting in Portuguese India and in the rest of the Portuguese Empire in Asia. It was established in 1560 briefly suppressed from 1774–1778 and finally abolished in 1812. Based on the records that survive H. P. Salomon and I. S. D. Sassoon state that between the Inquisition’s beginning in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774 some 16202 persons were brought to trial by the Inquisition.
