Luso-Asians are Eurasian people whose ethnicity is partially or wholly Portuguese and ancestrally are based in or hail primarily from Portugal, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. They historic
Portuguese ruler and soldiers mounting an Elephant in Myanmar
View of Mrauk-U, or Arrakan (city of Arakan) in the foreground the Portuguese quarter
Distribution of Goan Catholics in India
Filipe de Brito, Portuguese mercenary and governor of Syriam, Burma, circa 1600.
Luso-Indians are people of mixed Portuguese and Indian descent, as well as those who identify culturally with Portuguese colonial heritage in India. While many have partial European ancestry, others a
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
City of Calicut, India, c. 1572 (from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum)
Portuguese nobleman proposing to a Goan Catholic woman, c. 1540
Portuguese women in Goa, early 18th century