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This [http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060213205629/http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/pdfs/british_in_india.pdf Fact Sheet] from the now closed Family Records Centre advises that RG 33 contains some entries, mostly from the twentieth century, from the Princely States Bikaner, Eastern Rajputana, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Madras States, Mysore, Punjab States and Trivandrum, in the series RG 33/90-113 which are indexed in RG 43/15. Some nineteenth and early twentieth century deaths in French territories in India are in RG 35/16 and RG 35/20-44
More details are available in the book ''Tracing Your Ancestors in The National Archives'' by Amanda Bevan, (7th edn, National Archives Kew, 2006), Chapter 8 - Births, marriages and deaths of Britons overseas or in the armed services. Available at the [[British Library ]]
Indexes to Overseas BMD available on [http://www.familyrelatives.com/search/search_browseoverseas.php Family Relatives] (free search) and [http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp FindMyPast] (pay to search) appear to be the indexes from RG 43, together with other indexes in respect of military overseas BMD. If you find a reference in the indexes to a record in one of the above returns, the following options are available
