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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.

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