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The History of Mangalorean Catholics comprises of three major eras. The first era consists of the Aryan inheritance from their ancestors, who once lived on the banks of the now extinct Saraswati River, and later migrated to Goa due to the drying up of the river. The second era being the Lusitanian legacy, due to the conversion of their Hindu ancestors in Goa to Roman Catholicism by the Portuguese, and the final era being the migration of these Roman Catholics in Goa to Mangalore and other parts of South Canara between the mid-16th and mid-18th centuries due to the Goa Inquisition and PortugueseāMaratha wars, forming a new Mangalorean Catholic identity, and the subsequent growth and development of the community.[1]