The group, which lives in villages and towns between Vasai and Alibaug, trace their origins to the 15th and 16th when Portuguese missionaries converted members of local farming, fishing and salt-making communities to Roman Catholicism. The estimates of their numbers vary from 200,000 to 500,000, ...
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