H. Ratnakar Rau
When Dom Pedro found the orphaned Govind in a cave near the Banastarim Gate, he promised the baby's dying nurse to raise the child as a Hindu. But in 1651 Dom Pedro was a captain in the army of the Portuguese kind, in Goa whose citizens were destined for baptism as Christians .. And the penalty for disobedience was death. Govind is the story of the orphan's journey from childhood to young manhood, steered by his guardian through the tricky waters of family ...