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If your ancestors were baptised, married or buried in a European church in British India, then the [[church records]] should have been transcribed and you can access these records at the [[British Library]] in London, or at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. The FIBIS database contains many transcribed BMD records.

Some records of the births of Jewish people were included in the [[church records]] for the Bombay Presidency. It would seem that Jewish parents submitted a letter from their Rabbi or other figure of authority certifying that the individual was born on a certain day at a certain place. These letters were then included with the regular church records. Later, this 'registration' could then be used as proof of British citizenship. This does not seem to have been a very widespread practice. However, if you are at a loss to find a record of your ancestor, it may be worth examining the indexes to the [[church records]] of the Presidency in which they resided.

== External links ==

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdadi_Jews Baghdadi Jews] Wikipedia

*[http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl101.htm "The Last Jews In India And Burma"] by Nathan Katz and Ellen S. Goldberg. ''Jerusalem Letter No. 101 15 April 1988''. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Includes an overview of the historical details.

*[http://www.jacobsassoon.com Sassoon Synagogues of Mumbai & Pune]. Three synagogues, two in Bombay and one at Poona, are still ongoing, and contact details for the group are provided on the website.

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110219144254/http://sephardiclibrary.org/genealogy.html Online records from Rangoon and Calcutta Grave records] from the National Sephardic Library (Genealogy) of the American Sephardi Federation, now archived. Five datasets of birth records from Rangoon, see [[Burma]], and [[Cemeteries in Calcutta]] for individual links.

*From the catalogue of the [http://search.cjh.org:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=beta Centre for Jewish History], New York and available through the American Sephardi Federation:

**Birth Register Book: Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue Rangoon. Published 1979 In English, available from 1896. In Hebrew, available from 1888. The English records may be the same as the online Rangoon records in the previous link.

*Food

**[http://www.jewishcalcutta.in/exhibits/show/food "Calcutta Jewish Cuisine"] Exhibit 15 from “Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories Of The Jewish Community In Calcutta”. jewishcalcutta.in

**This [http://theshiksa.com/2011/12/08/potato-bhajee link] from "The Shiksa in the Kitchen" describes Jewish life in Calcutta c 1945 and includes a potato recipe from a vintage Jewish cookbook published in 1922 in Calcutta

**Rahel Musleah’s [http://www.rahelsjewishindia.com/index.html A Passage to Jewish India and Beyond] "From Baghdad to Calcutta". Includes some [http://www.rahelsjewishindia.com/page13/page12/page12.html recipes]

**[http://www.momentmag.com/talk-of-the-table-jan-feb-2013 "The Spicy Tale of India’s Jewish Cuisine"] by Sala Levin January 15, 2013 www.momentmag.com. Includes a potato recipe.

***[http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/the-cuisine-connection/article5451867.ece The cuisine connection] by Esther Elias December 12, 2013 ''The Hindu'' Kochi. The food of Cochini Jews.

*[http://www.thejewishnews.com/jews-in-burma-we-are-still-here Jews In Burma: “We Are Still Here!”] 13 January 2012 thejewishnews.com

**[http://labs.tribune.com.pk/hazel-lahore/ "Yearning for home: A Jewish woman’s memories of Lahore"] by Taha Anis, 14 February 2016 ''The Express Tribune''/Tribune Labs. Hazel Kahan was the daughter of Dr Herman Selzer, and his wife Kate, both doctors who studied in Germany, who settled in Lahore c 1938. The family was interred during WW2.

::For Dr Selzer’s account of the years of internment, see [[POW Camps in India#German prisoners of war|POW Camps in India- Second World War- German prisoners of war]].

*[https://www.ija.archives.gov Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage]. Records from Iraq which are, or will become. available online on the website of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

*Bollywood connections

**[http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/41319/bollywoods-bad-girls-jewish-actresses-lit-up-screen-in-indian-cinemas-early/ Bollywood’s ‘bad girls’: Jewish actresses lit up screen in Indian cinema’s early years] 11 February 2010 Jweekly.com

**Sammy Benjamin’s [http://b-inet.com/sammy/indian-jewish-actors/ (Lesser Known) Pioneering Indian Jewish Bollywood Actresses & Actors]

*[http://scroll.in/article/685009/Remembering-the-Jewish-refugee-who-composed-the-All-India-Radio-caller-tune Remembering the Jewish refugee who composed the All India Radio caller tune] by Naresh Fernandes, October 24, 2014 Scroll.in. Walter Kaufmann arrived in [[Bombay]] in 1934, where he founded the Bombay Chamber Music Society. He stayed 14 years in India.

===Historical books online===

*"The Jewish Merchant-Colony in Madras (Fort St. George) during the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Contribution to the Economic and Social History of the Jews in India" by Walter J. Fischel ''Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Apr., 1960)'', pp. 78-107 and ''Vol. 3, No. 2 (Aug., 1960)'', pp. 175-195 may be read online for free on the website JSTOR, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3596030 Part 1], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3596295 Part 2]. Registration with JSTOR is required, or some card holders of participating libraries may have access, and limits may apply, refer [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Also available at the [[British Library]].

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461583 ''The Origin And History Of The Calcutta Jews''] by I S Abraham, 1963. Archive.org

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