This is a copied post. But it's my history too thus sharing it here. The arrival of the Portugese in india The discovery of the sea route to India by that gallant little nation, the Portuguese, led to far-reaching results. One important outcome of the discovery was the birth of Indo-European races. The Anglo Indians of Kerala are chiefly the descendants of the Portuguese, who settled down in the west coast of Malabar in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is a sprinkling of the Dutch, the French and the English descendants also among them. But most of them have intermingled by inter-marriages now. Persons of unmixed European blood also are there. The surnames Almeida, Abrao, Alweyn, Aruja, Bivera, Coutinho, Carvalho,Cabral, Coelho, Correya, D'costa, D'Couto, D'Cunha, D'Cruz, D'Rose, D'Silva, D'Souza, D'Claus, Dias, Durome, Fereira, Faria, Fernandez, Figerado, Figueres, Furtado, Furtal, Furtas, Gomez, Gonsalvez, Lo...
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