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The best resort beaches are on the Malabar coast at Kovalam, Goa, and, smaller but charming, Cochin.
The carvings probably date from the 14th century but, like Goa Gajah, the site was covered by mud and only excavated in the 1920s.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
The Portuguese surrendered in 1641, wracked by malaria and dysentery and denied their usual reinforcements from Goa.
They are mainly Catholics, living in Goa, and elsewhere you will find all the British variations on Protestantism, all with a certain Hindu tinge to them.