Religion
Most of the members of this community in India are Latin Catholics due to the missionary activities of St. Francis Xavier and other Jesuits . Many of them have also converted to Evangelical Christianity in the recent years. Significant minority in India are Hindus.
In eastern Sri Lanka majority of them are Hindus and there were no Brahmin priests in their temples before 30–40 years ago but now some temples have Brahmin priests. Even though most of the Temple or Kovils rituals or Chadangu are led by one Pusehar or Pusaris in Tamil language. In western Sri Lanka majority of them are Roman Catholics and some have even become Sinhalese Buddhists through assimilation into the Karave caste.
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