Editing Marrano (section)

==Estado da India (Portuguese India)==
{{Main|History of the Jews in India|Sephardic Jews in India|The Goa Inquisition}}

In the "Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians 1536-1765", Professor [[:pt:António José Saraiva|Antonio Jose Saraiva]] of the [[University of Lisbon]], writes "King Manuel theoretically abolished discrimination between Old and New Christians by the law of March 1, 1507 which permitted the departure of New Christians to any part of the Christian world, declaring that they “be considered, favored and treated like the Old Christians and not distinct and separated from them in any matter.” Nevertheless, in apparent contradiction to that law, in a letter dated Almeirim, February 18, 1519, King Manuel promoted legislation henceforth prohibiting the naming of New Christians to the position of judge, town councilor or municipal registrar in Goa, stipulating, however, that those already appointed were not to be dismissed. This shows that even during the first nine years of Portuguese rule, Goa had a considerable influx of recently baptized Spanish and Portuguese Jews."<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=Starr-LeBeau |first1=Gretchen |last2=Saraiva |first2=António José |last3=Salomon |first3=H. P. |last4=Sassoon |first4=I. S. D. |title=The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians, 1536-1765 |journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal |date=1 October 2003 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=827 |doi=10.2307/20061561 |jstor=20061561 }}</ref>

Some New Christians sought to re-join Jewish populations in India (particularly through the Jewish community in [[Cochin Jews|Cochin]]), while others went on to be extremely influential in the spice trade, and the gems trade between Portugal, and India. This activity aroused the ire of the Catholic clergy. During this period, the first bishop of Goa, [[Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira]] wrote his anti-Semitic work "''contra os Judeos" (tracts against Jews)'', and called for the establishment of the [[Goa Inquisition|Inquisition in Goa]] (which was established in 1560).