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Amcha RSB samajacha bhandavans blogas swagat  Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins: Ithihas Rājāpur Sāraswat Brāhmins (RSB)  (also known as  Bhālāvalikar Gauda Saraswat Brahmins ) are a Hindu community of India. They belong to the  Pancha (five) Gauda Brahmana  groups or "Gaudadi Panchakas". Rājāpur Sāraswat Brahmins are a branch of the  Saraswat   Brahmins , who were supposed to have resided on the banks of the  Saraswati River . They migrated to the  Goa  region in around 700 BC from the banks of the Saraswati. They got their name from their village of origin, namely Rajapur  in the  Ratnagiri district  of  Maharashtra , India, where they had migrated from Goa. The community was known as  Gowd Saraswat Brahmins  before their migration from Bhalavali/Rajapur. Their migration from Goa was caused by a desire not to by forced into religious conversion by the Portuguese who were present there...