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Goan traditional Hindu houses have the following features: Angan (courtyard with a Tulasi Vrundavan) Rajangan (a courtyard inside the house) Deva kood (a place for daily prayer and other rituals) Saal (a hall) Raanchi kood (a kitchen with a door which is called Magil daar) A room special meant for pregnant and nursing mothers. Kothar (store room)
Goan Catholics also started traveling overseas during the latter part of this time period. There were migrations of Goan Catholics to other parts of the global Portuguese Empire, such as Portugal, Mozambique, [26] Ormuz, Muscat, Timor, Brasil, Malaca, Pegu, and Colombo. 48 Goan Catholics permanently migrated to Portugal during the 18th century ...
Their language parallels Dakhini of the Deccan Plateau. This dialect of Urdu has heavy Konkani influence and may be considered the "Konkani slang" of Goan Muslims. [15] Goan Muslims are bilingual (speaking Konkani outside the home); mostly are educated in Portuguese, [16] [17] and they use the Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts for written ...
Many of the Goan ancestors of the present Mangalorean Catholics fled Goa after the Inquisition began in 1560. King Sebastião I decreed that every trace of Hindu customs should be eradicated through the Inquisition. Many Goan Christians of upper-caste Hindu origins were attached to their caste practices, and did not want to abandon them. [35]
He advocated for Goan identification, both politically and culturally, with greater India. A court then prosecuted him for his writings. [2] In 1929, Cunha launched a protest against agents of British tea planters against their forced indentation of Goan kunbis as labourers in Assam. He then took help from the INC and successfully got the Goans ...
' The Story of Four Dervishes '), known as Bāgh-o Bahār (باغ و بہار, lit. ' Garden and Spring ') in Urdu, is a collection of allegorical stories by Amir Khusro written in Persian in the early 13th century. While legend says that Amir Khusro was the author, the tales were written long after his death.
Mangaloreans (Tulu: Kudladaklu; Kannada: Mangaloorinavaruu; Konkani: Kodialkar; Beary: Maikaltanga; Urdu: Kaudalvale) are a collection of diverse ethnic groups that hail from the historical locales of South Canara on the south western coast of Karnataka, India, particularly the residents native to Mangaluru.
Angarey or Angaaray (translated alternatively as "Embers" or "Burning Coals") is a collection of nine short stories and a one act play in Urdu by Sajjad Zaheer, Rashid Jahan, Mahmud-uz-Zafar and Ahmed Ali first published in 1932 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the Progressive Writers' Movement in Indian literature.