If the Portuguese did not want to be contemptible, what would the term have been to describe a native Goan Catholic?
Can someone enlighten us on the name of the Indian coastline north of Bombay / Mumbai? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, GL ------------- Antonio Menezes May be it is a short form of Canarins i.e. inhabitants of the coast of Canara. Canarim was a word implying contempt, used by the Portuguese to describe poor and illiterate Catholic Goans. From Goa to Bombay is Konkan coast, from Karwar to Mangalore it is Canara Coast and south of Mangalore is Malabar coast.