Luso-Indian

Luso-Indians
	Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Regions with significant populations
	Goa · Bombay (Mumbai), Vasai (Bassein) · Damaon, Diu & Silvassa · Kerala · Tamil Nadu · Kolkata
Languages
	Predominantly: European Portuguese, including Damaon and Dio Portuguese creole & Korlai Indo-Portuguese and other Indo-Portuguese Creoles · Konkani · English; Minority: Malayalam • Tamil • Telugu • Marathi • Kannada • Other Indian languages
Religion
	Roman Catholicism, minority of Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
	Portuguese Burghers • Goan Catholics, Mangalorean Catholics, Karwari Catholics, Damanese people & Bombay East Indian Catholics

Luso-Indians or Portuguese-Indian, is a subgroup of the larger Eurasian multiracial ethnic creole people of Luso-Asians. Luso-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and Portuguese ancestry or people of Portuguese descent born or living or originating in former Portuguese Indian colonies, the most important of which were Goa and Damaon of the Konkan region in the present-day Republic of India (formerly Estado Português da Índia or British India), and their diaspora around the world, the Anglosphere, Lusosphere, the Portuguese East Indies such as Macao etc.

There are also a number of Koli Christians, Christian Brahmins, Christian Cxatrias & so on with Portuguese surnames, but do not necessarily possess European ancestry or admixture. They were named as such in the process of their religious conversion to Western Christianity by Portuguese missionaries in the sixteenth century; this prevented discrimination among the converts.^[3]

^ : Countries and Their Cultures – Europeans in South Asia
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^ Dias, Charles. "Social history of Luso-Indians in Kerala". University. hdl:10603/13205.