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The Danish East India Company was established in 1616 and a Danish settlement was established at Tranquebar in 1620. There was also a Danish settlement at [[Serampore]] near [[Calcutta]]. They were more important for the missionary activities carried on there than for commerce. These settlements were perhaps the first perceptable cultural impingemnt of the Protestant West on India.
Source : A History of India (Volume Two) (1978) by Percival Spear p.68
If your ancestors were baptised, married or buried in a European church in British India, then the church records should have been transcribed and sent to the capital of the Presidency, where they would later have been forwarded on to London. These records were indexed and about 80% of church records in British India are believed to have survived. You can access these records at [[APAC]] in the British Library in London, or at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. The FIBIS website has extensive information on locating church records on microfilm for British India.
However, your Danish ancestors may not have lived in British India (i.e. that portion of India that was controlled by the British - this grew from a very small area in 1600 to almost all of India by 1947). In this case, the church records will not be kept in the OIOC at the British Library.
