nasrani.net's compiled population history of the Saint Thomas Christians of India's Malabar Coast, published 2007-02-13 and read 2026-08-16, drawing on named historical clergy reports and later census-era denominational counts, including a 1629 figure of about 250,000 Syrian Christians in Malabar and a combined Catholic and Orthodox estimate of roughly six to seven million for the early 2000s.
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Citation
Authornasrani.net editors
Publishernasrani.net
Publication Year2007
URLhttps://www.nasrani.net/2007/02/13/population-statistics-demography-saint-thomas-christians-churches/
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a self-published community history website, not itself peer reviewed, but used here only as a compilation of named, dated historical clergy reports (Antonio de Gouvea, Fr. Dionysio, Fr. Valignano, Fr. Francis Barreto) and later denominational population estimates, each individually attributed and datable, rather than for any editorial judgment of the compiler's own. Connections
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Source Population Statistics and Demography of Saint Thomas Christians (nasrani.net)nasrani.net editors
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)
This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Denominations, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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