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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Goan Catholics]] are [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] from [[Goa]], a state on the western coast of [[India]]. They are [[Konkani people]] and speak the [[Konkani language]]. They were converted by the [[Portuguese India|Portuguese]] from 1560 onwards. Goa was a Portuguese colony and subsequently a territory from 1510–1962.<ref name="mac">{{cite book<br />
|title=Sarasvati's Children: A History of the Mangalorean Christians<br />
|last=Prabhu<br />
|first=Alan Machado<br />
|year=1999<br />
|publisher=I.J.A. Publications<br />
|isbn=978-81-86778-25-8}} Contents taken from [http://www.kinnigoli.com/?app=article&mode=view&uid=11 Sarasvati's Children] article, written by Joe Lobo, the President of the Goan Catholic Association in Florida. This article has been borrowed mainly from Alan Machado's above book.</ref><br />
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While most Goan Catholics remained in Goa, some also emigrated to [[British Raj|British colonies of India]].<br />
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==History==<br />
Goans first worked for the British in 1779 at the time of the French Revolution, when the naval fleet of the [[British India]] Government was stationed in Goa. The British found the Christian Goans were eminently suitable because of their Western dress, diet and customs and when the fleets withdrew from Goa some time afterward, the Goans went with them. Goans who trained at the medical school also moved to other Portuguese colonies around 1842 after the first medical school was created Goans migrated to British India as well where there were more opportunities and economic development was occurring, which led to a demand for English language schools for these migrants which surpassed that of those educated in Portuguese. However, such was the demand that Goans began sending their children to neighbouring cities such as [[Bombay]], [[Poona]] and [[Belgaum]]. Employment opportunities also arose in [[Karachi]], then in [[colonial India]].<ref>{{harvnb|Haward|1980|p=342}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Catholic Church in India]]<br />
*[[Goan Catholics]]<br />
*[[History of Goa]]<br />
*[[History of Goan Catholics]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{citation<br />
|first=Raffat Khan <br />
|last=Haward<br />
|title=The City in South Asia: pre-modern and modern<br />
|chapter=An Urban Minority: The Goan Christian Community in Karachi<br />
|year=1980<br />
|edition=illustrated<br />
|publisher=Curzon Press}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.ruthdesouza.com/culture/goa_and_india.html Goans in New Zealand, Goa and around the world]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} by Ruth DeSouza from Ruth DeSouza.com<br />
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