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Kerala has a thriving Christian community and the church claims a tradition that is almost contemporary to the founders of the religion. Architectural evidence and archaeological evidence for thriving commerce with West Asia, Egypt and other centres of early Christianity are emerging from the…
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East Indians as a designated community emerged in 1887. A group of East Indians by virtue of a resolution passed on May 26, 1887, decided to name the hitherto-called Portuguese Christians as East Indians. The origins, however, of Christians in the north Konkan region is said to go back to the first…
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My name is Genevieve D'Souza. I’ve been in this cooking, sweet making and cake making business for almost 22 years now. I make a lot of sweets during Christmas, I make a lot of Easter eggs during Easter season and our usual cooking, our daily cuisine.
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The East Indian cuisine is more…
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My name is Alphi Walter D'Souza. I'm from Vakola and we began the Mobai Goathan Panchayat (MGP) in 2010. That is the year when I resigned from my office to take up full time with MGP. If you go back in history, the East Indian history is pretty old. It's about 400 hundred years old. And from then…
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The East Indian community is one of the earliest to have inhabited Bombay (Mumbai), Salsette and Thana (Thane). Their ancestry can be traced from the first century CE onward according to their caste designations from the 11th and 12th century CE. The earliest known native Christians from the first …
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The city of Mumbai has always nurtured the dreams of those who come seeking their fortunes from all across the nation. According to the World Population Review, about 40 per cent of the entire population of Mumbai is made up of migrants from the rest of the country. Urbanisation and the ever-…
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The East Indian community is one of the earliest to have inhabited Bombay (Mumbai), Salsette and Thana (Thane). Their ancestry can be traced from the first century CE onward according to their caste designations from the 11th and 12th century CE. The original East Indian villages stretched from…
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The rituals and customs of the Christian community, which are in synthesis with the cultural traditions of Kerala, have facets inseparably interwoven with Hindu culture. For example, similar to the thulasithara (an elevated platform on which basil is planted) in a Hindu home, there are…
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Margamkali is a dance form practised by Syrian Christian men (in Kerala) since the fourth century in commemoration of their acceptance of Way of Christ. It is a dance form where the dancers traditionally danced around a small platform with a cross in the middle. In remembrance of the story of how…
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Margamkali is a ritualistic dance form performed by the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala on Christian days of celebration, and on the eve of weddings. Traditionally, it was performed around an elevated platform with a cross by twelve dancers representing the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ.…
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