Goa’s Hindu Revival: Reclaiming a Civilization Buried Under Centuries of Colonial Rule

  •  The land of churches and beaches is at the threshold of a civilizational makeover, with the drug and party culture losing its allure and the hitherto concealed Hindu heritage of Goa making its presence felt.
  • The unveiling of Bhagwan Ram’s statue in Goa in November 2025 carries deep symbolic significance amid the near-erasure of the state’s Hindu heritage. The brutality of Portuguese rule, compounded by post-independence civilizational apathy, led to the systematic destruction of Goa’s Sanatani roots.
  • For the past couple of years, the Goa government has been promoting temple tourism in the state and restoring and reconstructing Hindu temples destroyed during the Portuguese invasion.
  • Even though Goa is slowly but decisively embracing its Hindu roots, the conspicuous absence of the Goa Inquisition – a pinnacle of Hindu persecution – from mainstream public discourse exemplifies the complexity of this endeavour.
Rati Agnihotri
Rati Agnihotri
Rati Agnihotri is an independent journalist and writer currently based in Dehradun (Uttarakhand). Rati has extensive experience in broadcast journalism, having worked as a Correspondent for Xinhua Media for 8 years. She has also worked across radio and digital media and was a Fellow with Radio Deutsche Welle in Bonn. Rati regularly contributes articles to various newspapers, journals and magazines. Her articles have been recently published in "Firstpost", "The Sunday Guardian", " Organizer", OpIndia", "Hindupost", "Garhwal Post", "Sanatan Prabhat", etc. Rati writes extensively on issues concerning politics, geopolitics, Hindu Dharma, culture, society, etc. The points of intersection between geopolitics and culture are of special interest to her. A lot of her work explores issues concerning Bharat's civilizational and cultural ethos from a global perspective. She obtained her master’s degree in International Journalism from the University of Leeds, UK and a BA (Hons) English Literature from Miranda House, Delhi University. Rati is also a bilingual poet (English and Hindi) with two collections of English poetry to her credit. Her first poetry collection "The Sunset Sonata" has been published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. Her second poetry book "I'd like a bit of the Moon" has been published by Red River.
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