The Goa Inquisition was a judicial institution set up by the kingdom of Portugal as an outpost of the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa, the first Portuguese colony in India. It lasted from 1560 to 1812, with a brief suspension during 1774–78. The Goa Inquisition, at the behest of the royal crown and the Roman Catholic Church, aimed to combat supposed heresy among converts to Christianity and suppress local Hinduism and Islam in Goa.
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