The East Indian Catholic group of Mumbai most definitely isn't from the east of India, as the identify suggests. The group was first recognized within the year 1896, but that turned into no longer the yr of its origin. East Indians are indigenous to the heartland of what might be stated to contain the former Salsette Islands — including Bandra, Kurla, Thane, and Bhayandar. they're local Christians of long standing, who didn't want the British Colonial govt to confuse them with the Goans, the Mangloreans and different Christian settlers within the place. therefore, they decided to undertake a name that could make them stand out as a separate Christian identification, and adopted the identify 'East Indians' to galvanize upon the British that they have been the earliest Christians, Marathi speaking and very much little children of the soil of Mumbai (Mobai in East Indian Marathi). The community is primarily based generally on quite a lot of sub-communities, or reasonably the amalg amation of 5 basic cultural corporations, Samvedi Christians, Koli Christians, Vadval Christians, Sutars and Salsette Christians.
To trace the ancestry of the East Indians, one must take a step lower back into history over 500 years ago, to the creation of the Portuguese on these shores. Some like Dr. Elsie Baptista, who did a socio-cultural examine on the community, takes her story even additional lower back to the primary century A.D. to apostolic times of St. Bartholomew, who first preached Christianity in North Konkan.
The East Indians do owe their origins in terms of a community to the Portuguese. The total villages at a time have been baptized within the new religion and given Christian names and surnames. It is not distinct even these days to find a village crammed with individuals bearing the identical surnames besides the fact that the households may additionally now not all the time be connected.
East Indians talk a blend of pure Marathi, Portuguese and English, and have a prosperous lifestyle and cuisine.
East Indians love consuming first rate meals. besides the vindaloo and the sorpotel product of pork, they additionally love kanji curry, prawn balchao, duck moile, khudi curry and roast meat (lookup the cyber web for these East Indian recipes).
The traditional costume of the East Indian women is called a 'lugade' or a 'lugra'. it is a 9-yard hand woven cotton sari with faintly seen assessments from afar, purchasable in colours of navy blue, purple and eco-friendly.
(The latter part of the Diary will continue on Sunday.)
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