Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c20.s1.57

c20.s1.57

"After capturing Goa, (it became the policy of the Dominican head of the Church, and Albuquerque) at Cochin and Goa of encouraging and subsidizing marriages between native women and the Portuguese Since most of the marriages contracted were between common Portuguese and low-caste natives .....it had the effect of lowering all Christians in the eyes of the higher castes..."
D.F. Lach, *Asia in the Making of Europe*, *op. cit.* (V, n. 24), I, pp. 230-34.
Also *cf.* Manucci, *op. cit.* (II, n. 41), III, p 323, for the seventeenth century.