John Correia-Afonso had a brilliant academic career in history and economics, which he taught before joining the priesthood. His contributions to the writing of Jesuit history comprise his Jesuit Letters and Indian History, The Ignation Vision of India and The Jesuits in India. But it was his realisation of the workings of a pervasive force that animated the structures of Goan society that led him to modify the interpretation of history as conditioned only by the material means of production.
