 A detailed study of "Comunidades" shows that baptised Śeṭs were categorised as "Bamonns".A few historians have categorised them into the category of "Sudirs" or Śudras because the appellation they used, "Chatim", was sometimes used by the lower castes.Whether Hindu or Catholic, the community always enjoyed their social status, and were permitted to remain in Christianised parts of Goa, provided they kept a low profile, observed certain disciplines, and paid a tax of three "xeraphims" of (gold mohor) annually to the Portuguese.