A K Priolkar

Anant Kakba Priolkar was an Indian historian, author and researcher. He is widely known in academia for his work on the history of the printing press in India and for producing the most authoritative work on the Goa Inquisition entitled "The Goa Inquisition". The book was first published in 1961 and was very well-reviewed by his peers. Gerald M. Moser of Penn State University said that the book was an authoritative work on the event based on accounts of European travellers and Portuguese historians and that it "reopened old wounds, recalling the dismal record of European religious intolerance" in India "through the most pitiless inquisition of Christendom".