Saint Thomas Christians
Christianity arrived along the southern Indian Malabar Coast via Thomas the Apostle in 52 and from this came Thomasine Christianity. These Syrian Malabar Nasranis kept a unique Christian identity until the arrival of the Portuguese in the 17th century.
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