Indo-Portuguese people at Korlai Hi Deepika
You will remember we visited this village on that memorable trip in a hired car with Champ and Aunt Jenny. Just across the bay from Bombay on the mainland below Alibag we stumbled on this little village of Korlai -- all residences centred around a Catholic Church -- where we found "fair" people -- definitely fairer than people of the surrounding areas -- who spoke a different sort of Marathi-Portuguese -- these were descendents of the original inhabitants who had married Portuguese men stationed at this outpost of the then Portuguese settlement of Bom-Baim. It used to be well fortified with a good harbour -- still used by the villagers whose current main occupation appears to be fishing. For some reason I gathered the impression that from the Catholic Church's operations, Korlai is part of the Dadar (Salvation) Church parish. There did not appear to be any direct link between the Korlai inhabitants and "East Indians" of Dadar and Vasai. Cheers Aloysius ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Antonio Menezes <ac.mene...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:09 PM Subject: [Goanet] Luso-indians of Korlai To: goanet <goa...@goanet.org> If in a village called Korlai in North Konkan region which was ruled by the Marathas and then by the Bristish for most part of 280 years, there still exist today about eight hundred persons of biracial origin or Luso Indian who speak ''Nossling Portuguese, is it not rather strange than in the so-called Velhas Conquistas de Go ( Ilhas, Bardex and Salcete ) which were ruled by the Portuguese for 451 years, there are hardly any families who claim to be of biracial origin or Luso-Goans or Mestissos ?