Aloysius Paul D'Souza was born on 21 June 1941 in Hekkotu, a neighbourhood in the Agrar suburb of Bantwal, Dakshina Kannada.
The faction of the Baligas that reside in current day Bantwal, called Bantwal Baligas, are said by some to have hailed from the Hegde family.
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The Baliga surname is used by three major families in the Goud Saraswath Brahmin community: the Bantwal Baliga, Manjeshwar Baliga and Kallianpur Baliga.
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The other notable mention is in The Ancient History of South Canara written by Ganapathi Rao Aigal, which mentions one Damarsa Bale, among nine other Samasthas (Noblemen) of Bantwal, signing a copper inscription of offering to Sri Bhadra Narasimha Temple of Manjeshwar.
Manjeshwar Ganapathi Rao Aigal (1881–1944) was a Historian and served as a Teacher in Bantwal, Dakshina Kannada.
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