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| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Goa · Gujarat · Bombay (Mumbai), Vasai (Bassein) · Damaon, Diu & Silvassa · Kerala · Tamil Nadu · Kolkata · Andhra Pradesh · Karnataka | |
| Languages | |
| Predominantly: European Portuguese, including Damaon and Dio Portuguese creole & Korlai Indo-Portuguese and other Indo-Portuguese Creoles · Konkani · English Minority: Malayalam • Tamil • Telugu • Marathi • Kannada • Other Indian languages | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism, minority of Hinduism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Portuguese Burghers • Goan Catholics, Mangalorean Catholics, Karwari Catholics, Luso-Asians, Damanese people & Bombay East Indian Catholics |
Luso-Indians, or Portuguese-Indian, is a subgroup of the larger Eurasian multiracial ethnic creole people of Luso-Asians. Luso-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and Portuguese ancestry or people of Portuguese descent born or living or originating in former Portuguese Indian colonies, the most important of which were Goa and Damaon of the Konkan region in the present-day Republic of India (formerly Estado Português da Índia or British India), and their diaspora around the world, the Anglosphere, Lusosphere, the Portuguese East Indies such as Macao, etc.
Pockets of Luso-Asians of the Indian subcontinent existed in Anjediva, Velha Goa, Damaon, Dio district, St Mary's islands of Mangalore, Bombay (Mumbai), Korlai Fort (Chaul), Vasai (Bassein), Silvassa, Cape Comorin, and Fort Cochin.[1][2]
There are also a number of Koli Christians, Christian Brahmins, Christian Cxatrias & so on with Portuguese surnames, but do not necessarily possess European ancestry or admixture. They were named as such in the process of their religious conversion to Western Christianity by Portuguese missionaries in the sixteenth century; this prevented discrimination among the converts.[3]
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- ^ Dias, Charles. "Social history of Luso-Indians in Kerala". University. hdl:10603/13205.