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Originally Posted by cb2008
There is a church of St.Thomas in the city i grew up in, right in our neighborhood, on the beach. It is dominantly a Christian neighborhood, along with a couple of schools and a college run by the Irish catholic convent. Interesting about Christianity in Kerala. I know there is a church built by the Dutch in Cochin, interesting style. The coastal area was a bustling trading place for a long time, narrated in the Indian classics, so there was a mingling of Indian, Arabs and European traders. The state itself is a fascinating mix of muslim, christian and Hindus some of whom are the most strict and orthodox Brahmins. It is a state of contradiction, of high literacy, communist, artists, and prgressive.
I thought the Portuguese mostly settled in Goa and were a cruel and oppressive regime.
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They did. And in other parts of the world, as well. Very involved in the African slave trade. (See Brazil.) In fact, for a tiny country, they left their language in quite a few spots around the globe, too.
I have a friend who was born in Goa and came to the USA at 18. She is Catholic, and she has a common European first name.
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