"Sephardic Jews and anusim in India'"@en . . . . "Sephardic Jews and anusim in India are European Jews who settled in southwest India, in Goa, Madras (now Chennai), and, primarily and for the longest period, on the Malabar coast, after having left the Iberian peninsula at the end of the 15th century and throughout the 16th century, in search of religious freedom due to the Spanish Inquisition in both Spain and Portugal. In Iberia, they spoke the vernacular language of their kingdom (basically Castillian i.e."@en . . .