Streatfeidl-James, Douglas and Thomas, Bryn. Lonely Planet - Goa. Lonely Planet Publications, 1998.
Henry James Coleridge, ed. The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier. 2d Ed., 2 Vols. London: Burns & Oates, 1890.
I was of the opinion the two citations above are pretty reliable. But you also have a point. Also note that the second citation dates back to 1890. I doubt the 'Parivar' existed back then.
Anyway, I will be searching for the title on the British Library catalogue, and if I find anything, I'll ping you to it.
Just found this:
Burns & Oates is a British publishing house which now exists as an imprint of Continuum. It was founded by James Burns in 1835, originally as a bookseller. Burns was of Presbyterian background and he gained a reputation as a High Church publisher, producing works by the Tractarians.
In 1847 his business was put in jeopardy when he converted to Roman Catholicism, but the firm was fortunate to receive the support of John Henry Newman chose the firm to publish many of his works. There is a story that Newman's novel Loss and Gain was written specifically to assist Burns.
After a while trading as Burns, James Burns took a partner, renaming the company Burns & Lambert. In 1866 they were joined by a younger man, William Wilfred Oates, making the company Burns, Lambert & Oates and later Burns & Oates. Oates was another Catholic convert, and had previously co-founded the publishing house of Austin & Oate,s based in Bristol. Burns & Oates passed to his son Wilfred Oates, whose sister Mother Mary Salome became one of the firm’s most successful authors.
In the USA the company's agent was The Catholic Publications Society of New York.
Bibliography
Wilfred Wilberforce, The House of Burns and Oates, London: Burns and Oates, 1908
Early Chapters in the History of Burns and Oates, No Location: Privately Printed, 1949
I would definitely say the second source would certainly not be biased against Catholicism! But the first source seems to be the primary source; consider, for instance, how the article deals with St. Francis Xavier: one would get the idea he was calling for Jihad against the Hindus, when really what he was trying to do was establish what issues might complicate a return of the Malabarese to full communion with the Catholic Church!!!
It's "Lonely Planet" which I believe is the dominant source, and the one which provides for the basic tone of the article... Turns out that Lonely Planet was a BBC (ugh!) TV series; although Streatfeidl's only other book was Siberia, the series did journey to manu other destinations: Paris, Beijing, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Papua New Guineas, Hawaii, and South Africa, as well as other regional guides (Central Asia, US cities, Western Europe, etc.)
Despite being a spinoff of a BBC (ugh!) TV series, I don't know its inherently hateful, but I am suspicious that a Siberian expert with no other writing history is sent to a place experiencing a Marxist revolution, during the midst of anti-Christian pogroms; and then of the fact that whoever write the Wikipedia article thought this little snippet was essentially all he needed to know about Goa.