Conspiracy of the Pintos

[2] P. Kamat writes that the protests of the various priests she studied for their non-submission to the Portuguese authority in Goa were by and large manifestations of personal grievances arising out of nepotism and class envy.

Dr. Celsa Pinto claims that the American War of Independence influenced many Goans living in Lisbon.

[citation needed] While Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, had issued laws known as the Pombaline reforms which allowed for all citizens of the Portuguese Empire including Goans to be considered equal.

[citation needed] José António and Caetano visited Rome and Portugal to plead for their appointment as Bishops in Southern India dioceses, but these Goan priests were bypassed in favour of the local South Indian clerics (e.g. Bishop Joseph Kariattil) for the appointment to the vacant sees of Cranganore and Mylapore.

[4][5] They were tied by ropes and dragged by horses for 40kms, after which their hands were chopped, head severed from their body and property confiscated and children and grandchildren branded by infamy.

While the revolt failed, Goans did achieve stronger forms of Government and when the Portuguese Constitution of 1822 was adopted, two native Goans Bernardo Peres da Silva and Constâncio Roque da Costa were elected to the first parliament in Portugal, a practice that continued till the Annexation of Goa.