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A British census of South Kanara’s population in 1801 categorizes its Konkani-speaking inhabitants into two main classifications,...

Trade connects the world. Mangalore and the West Coast of India has always been part of a global trade network that connected Europe to...

Greek man:  Mistress Charition, celebrate these things with me that I have escaped. Charition:  Great are the gods! Clown:  What gods?...

Definition : "an obligation to labour for the benefit of the master, without the contract or consent of the servant, the master at the...

Slavery in Kanara existed in two forms, domestic and agrestic. The number of domestic slaves appears to have been very small. Agrestic or...

Ash Wednesday ushers in Lent which commemorates the period during which Christ lived in the desert fasting and meditating before his...

Kanara Christians are alleged to have loaned Rs 330,000 to Mathews, presumably in Mangalore.  This charge appears as a footnote in a...

When a slave was sold, a bill of sale was drawn up between buy and seller, and the transfer was completed with a short ceremony during...

On May 4, 1783, Campbell wrote: “There are a number of Native Christians here who had been formerly attached to the Artillery, 34 of them...

Married slaves were generally faithful to each other. A couple intending to marry sought the sanction of their respective owners. In...

Muslim communities the world over adopted a unique and ancient practice by which slave children were separated from their families at a...

With the aim of disciplining his chelas in the European style of warfare, Haidar recruited, forcibly and otherwise, English soldiers and...

Konkani , with a speaking population of2,256,502 (2011 Census: Goa 964,305, Karnataka 788,294, Maharashtra 399,255, Kerala 69,449) has...

On June 30, 1782, about 300 English sailors, prisoners of the French Admiral Suffren, were offloaded into Haidar’s custody at Cuddulore....

Following Tipu’s return from Mangalore sometime in mid-1784, Scurry was transferred to the newly formed lashkar-i-ahmadi composed of...

Kanara Catholics are mainly descendants of Goans whose ancestors converted to Christianity when it was under Portuguese rule....

The Kanara Catholic community has unique identifying markers by which it earns a distinct place among the Indian population. Many of...

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT     Monthly salary Rs Years in service Shaik Abdul Rahimán Mufty Sudr Ameen 200 21         Civil and Session Court...

In March 1784, Christians all over Tipu Sultan’s saltanat-i-khudadad (God-given-kingdom) were arrested and deported to Srirangapatna....

The Barkur Manuscript is an old account of the Captivity narrated by a captive who survived or escaped from exile. The copy reproduced...