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 large island in the distance is La Desirade, the small Petite-Terre islets are much closer.