Roman Catholic Brahmin

Roman Catholic Brahmin or Christian Brahmin (IAST Bamonns /baməɳ ~ bamɔɳ/ in Romi Konkani and Kupari in Bombay East Indian dialects) is a Christianised caste among the Goan, Bombay East Indian and Mangalorean Catholics, who are patrilineal descendants of Brahmin and Prabhu converts to the Latin Church. This occurred in parts of the Konkan region that were annexed into the Portuguese East Indies, with the capital (metropole) at Velha Goa, and Bombay (Bom Bahia) was the largest territory (province) of Portuguese India. They retain some of the ethno-social values and customs of their ancestors and most of them exhibit a noticeable hybrid Latino-Concanic culture.

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