Almost all the present-day Goan Catholics are descendants of these local converts to the religion.

By 1627, there were about a hundred local converts in the Guge kingdom.

The number of local converts in South Canara continually increased until 1546.

A minuscule percentage descended from local converts still use the surname Padval.

They left behind them a small group of local Christian converts.

The number of local converts in South Canara started increasing.

Foreign missionaries create well-organised churches and then hand them over to local converts.

In 1818, Serampore College was founded to train local converts for the ministry.

Then came the local converts to Christianity from both Hinduism and Islam.

The community consists of local converts, and have been involved in the traditional occupation of cotton ginning.