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The '''British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia''' (or BACSA) was established in 1976 to care for, and to record, European cemeteries wherever the [[East India Company]] operated. It has published an extensive series of books, including transcriptions of gravestones throughout India, [[Pakistan]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Malaysia]] and surrounding areas, as well as more general information on the British presence in this region.
BACSA are in the process of putting the have put indexes to its the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.Many of the burials indicated in the search facility do not appear in the N Series of burials held in the British Library and this is , therefore, an invaluable supplementary resource to those records. Amongst those indexes already available are Meerut Cantonment, Agra , Vizagapatam and the Kacheri cemetery of Kanpur. Names on India related Monumental Inscriptions known to BACSA have also been included in the search facility - many of these being UK inscriptions.. See [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/index.php BACSA Search] for more information.
In addition to their published material, the archive containing all of BACSA's transcripts is deposited in the private papers collection (shelf mark Mss Eur F370) at the [[British Library]], where it may be consulted by readers. [http://bacsa.frontisgroup.com/bin/index.php BACSA Search] has details about the items contained in the BACSA Archive in the "Browse records" section, in category 1 "Cemetery files and registers" and categories 5, "Family history files" and 6, "Reference materials". In addition, it appears that at least some of the burial records from the BACSA Archive may have been transcribed, but it is not known to what extent this has been done.
