The East Indian Community

Original Inhabitants of Bombay, Salsette & Thana.

Evidence of Bartholomew

62 According to tradition, James the Just, bishop of Jerusalem, was killed in the temple by an angry mob, apparently struck in the head with a sledgehammer.

Tradition has it Bartholomew was martyred in Kalyana, a city state on the west coast of India, near modern-day Bombay.  Bartholomew was skinned alive and crucified.

Paul tried and acquitted in Rome.

 

The surprise, of course, is the mention of Bartholomew as the pioneer to the East,"

 

the finding of a Gospel of Matthew left with the Christians by Bartholomew is very strong evidence to the existence of a Christian community in India in the first century at the time of the visit of St. Bartholomew

http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showchapter?chapter_id=1366

Continuation of the Faith

JORDANUS (JORDAN Catalani) (fl. 1321-1330), French Dominican missionary and explorer in Asia

 

In the thirteenth century, Marco Polo spoke of six great kingdoms in central India, three of which were Christian. Various travellers to India in the late Middle Ages reported encountering Nestorians in Patna, Madras, Bombay, the Punjab and elsewhere throughout India

http://www.oxuscom.com/ch-of-east.htm

 

Other Communities

The opportunities for business attracted many Gujarati communities--- the Parsis, the Bohras