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To deal with the small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian “heretics,” who had settled down on the Malabar coast in the mists of antiquity, the then Archbishop of Goa opened a local branch of the Holy Inquisition.
As the Inquisition established its reign of terror to stamp out heresy, converted Jews, conversos, and Muslims, moriscos, were looked upon with suspicion, and many left the country or were condemned to death.
The plateau’s isolation attracted many Jews fleeing the Inquisition.
Subject: The Spanish Inquisition
The converted Jews (conversos) and Moors (Moriscos) who remained in Spain were viewed with suspicion by the Inquisition, which had been established by the Catholic Monarchs to stamp out heresy.