--- D'Souza, Avelino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The story that has been doing the rounds for
centuries now is that the
first Costa settler in India had sailed to the
subcontinent in the
company of Vasco da Gama.
But there is also information that the Costas are
Brahmins, and so
Indians by
Avelino, I cannot understand your reasoning.
What does someone's caste has to do with someone's surname?
Also, surely you did not think that all Costas descend from the first white
Portuguese settler that travelled to India with Vasco da Gama, right?
The first hindus who were baptised usually