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.
The Archbishop of Goa opened a local branch of Holy Inquisition to deal with small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian heretics who had settled on the Malabar coast.
The British wanted to get rid of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and they tried to enlist the help of other nations.