a. That of the Christians of Thomas on the Malabar Coast. Here the doctrine is that of the Syrian Church, and the population being perhaps (?) Persian in origin.
b. The Romanism of the French and Portuguese;[201] the latter having its greatest development in the Mahratta country, about Goa.
c. Dutch and Danish Protestantism.
d. English and American Protestantism. To which add small infusions of the Armenian and Abyssinian churches.
Of these it is only the Christians of St. Thomas that are of much ethnological importance.
2. Judaism on the coast of Malabar; or the Judaism of the so-called Black Jews.
3. Parseeism in Gujerat; of Persian origin, and, probably, nearly confined to individuals of Persian blood.
4. Mahometanism.
Of foreign blood there are numerous infusions.