Regions with significant populations | |
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Diocese of Mangalore | 360,000[1] |
Diocese of Udupi | 106,000 (approx) |
Languages | |
Konkani, Tulu, Kannada, Hindi-Urdu, Indian English, and Bombay Mahratti | |
Religion | |
Latin Church | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Kudali Catholics, Goan Catholics, Karwari Catholics, Bombay East Indian Catholics, Damanese Catholics, Mangalorean Protestants, Latin Catholics of Malabar, Koli Christians, Kunbi, Maratha, Gaodi Christians, Christian Brahmins, Christian Cxatrias, Saraswat Brahmins, Daivadnyas, Vaishya Vanis, Anglo-Indians and Luso-Indians |
Mangalorean Catholics (Konkani: Kōdiyālcheñ Kathōlikā) are an ethno-religious community of Latin Christian Konkanis from the Diocese of Mangalore and the erstwhile South Canara area, by the southwestern coast of present-day Karnataka, India.[2][3]
Contemporary Mangalorean Catholics descend mainly from the New Christians of Portuguese Goa, who migrated to the Keladi Kingdom 1560-1763,[4][5] throughout the courses of the Goan Inquisition, the Portuguese–Adil Shahi War & the Mahratta Invasion of Goa and Bombay.[6][7] They learned Tulu and Kanarese whilst in Canara, but retained the Konkani language and preserved much of their Konkani way of life, which had undergone Christianisation in Goa. The "Canara Christians" faced a 15-year-long captivity at Seringapatam, imposed by Tippu Sultan.[8] Following Tippu's defeat and death at the Siege of Seringapatam (1799) by the English East India Company, the Nizam of Hyderabad & other allies; most of them resettled in and around South Canara; also areas such as Chikmagalur (Chickmangalore) & Coorg (Kodagu) during the Company rule in India. A lesser number shipped to the Seven Islands of Bombay & the Bombay metropolitan area in the northern Konkan region.
In the early 20th century, there were more migrations of the educated and working classes to bigger cities such as the Bombay (Mumbai), Poona (Pune) & Bangalore (Bengaluru); this led to the formation of a Mangalorean diaspora in the Persian Gulf countries and the Anglosphere;[9] thus the younger generation outside of South Canara, is mostly an English-speaking anglo-americanised Konkani sub-culture. Also, intermarriages with non-Mangaloreans has caused a decline in "Mangalore stores" and the culture of Mangalorean Catholic cuisine.[10]
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