Mangalorean Catholics () are an ethno-religious community of Latin Catholics in India typically residing in the Diocese of Mangalore in the erstwhile South Canara area, by the southwestern coast of present-day Karnataka. Contemporary Mangalorean Catholics descend mainly from the New Christians of Portuguese Goa, who migrated to South Canara between 1560 and 1763, throughout the course of the Goan Inquisition, the Portuguese–Adil Shahi War & the Mahratta Sackings of Goa and Bombay-Bassein. They learned Tulu and Kanarese whilst in South Canara, but retained the Konkani language and preserved much of their Konkani way of life, which had undergone Christianisation in Goa. Their 15-year-long captivity at Seringapatam imposed by Tippu Sultan, the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, almost led the community to decimation. Following Tippu's defeat and death in the Siege of Seringapatam (1799) by the English East India Company, the Nizam of Hyderabad and other allies; most of them resettled in South Canara during the Company rule in India, a lesser number sailed to the seven islands of Bombay and it's adjacent area in the northern Konkan region, in search of superior jobs or for higher studies. Although early assertions of a distinct identity date from the migration period, a developed Mangalorean Catholic identity only emerged after liberation from captivity, which has been a blend of Mangalorean and Goan cultures. The younger generation of present days at Poona, Bangalore & the Bombay metro area; and the diaspora in Persian Gulf countries and the Anglosphere, can be described as an increasingly anglo-americanised Konkani sub-culture with a lingering Portuguese Christian influence. Ethnic identity The community gets its name from the Mangalore Diocesean adherents of the Latin Church in India, located by the southwestern coast of India. It comprises the present day civil districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udipi district in Karnataka state, and Kassergode in Kerala state. This area was collectively referred to as South Canara in British India, and then from the partition until the reorganisation (1956) of states and territories of India. In 1526, Portuguese in Goa and Bombay arrived in Mangalore, and the number of local converts to Christianity slowly increased. However, a sizeable Christian population did not exist there until the second half of the 16th century, when there was a large-scale immigration of Christians from Goa to South Canara. They were reluctant to learn the local languages of South Canara and continued to speak