Luso-Indians
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Name (Latin)
Luso-Indians
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Ethnology India
Goans
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Q6705204
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sh2015000189
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- Work cat: 2013319285: The Portuguese in Malabar : a social history of Luso Indians, 2013:title page (Luso Indians) foreword (Portuguese-Indian marriages in their colonial pockets like Cochin and Goa, encouraging their officers to marry Indian women from aristocratic upper catses like Nairs and Nambudiris. The children of such marriages, called Luso Indians)
- Wikipedia site, viewed 01-27-2014:(Luso-Indian is a subgroup ethnicity from Luso-Asians and are people who have mixed varied Indian subcontinent and Portuguese ancestry or people of Portuguese descent born or living in the Republic of India and the world. Most of them live in former Portuguese overseas territories of the Estado da India which are currently a part of the newly formed independent nation as a Union in 1947 called the Republic of India from British raj. Luso-Asians of the Indian subcontinent are primarily from Goa, Daman and Diu, Korlai, Silvassa, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala)
- Britannica online, Sept. 1, 2015:Anglo-Indians (Governor Alfonso de Albuquerque, who conquered the city of Goa in 1510, encouraged his countrymen to marry Indian women to help establish Portuguese authority. The offspring of those marriages were known as Luso-Indians. As the Portuguese gradually abandoned their Indian possessions or otherwise lost dominance in the region, Luso-Indians merged with the local Indian population. For the most part, the descendants of these Luso-Indians are known today as Goans, and they are concentrated in the state of Goa, in Mumbai, and along India's western coast. Especially in the larger cities, such as Mumbai, Madras (now Chennai), and Calcutta (now Kolkata), the Goans and other Luso-Indians retained much of their European cultural heritage and amalgamated with the local community of mixed British and Indian descent--those for whom the Anglo-Indian ethnic category would ultimately be named.)
Wikipedia description:
Luso-Indians are people of mixed Portuguese and Indian descent, as well as those who identify culturally with Portuguese colonial heritage in India. While many have partial European ancestry, others are descendants of Indian converts who adopted Portuguese surnames and customs during the colonial period. The group originated during Portuguese rule in Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and other coastal enclaves like Chaul / Korlai, where colonial authorities and missionaries encouraged intermarriage between Portuguese settlers and local communities. Over time, a distinct Indo-Portuguese identity emerged, blending European and Indian elements.
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