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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-01/1168720400 thread] advises that there were lots of German Regiments in India especially during the 18th Century and until about 1820, including captured Wuttenburgers from the Dutch service who were brought in from South Africa to fight for the EIC. Many references in the India Office records are listed. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218610422 thread] is on similar matters.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-06/1149438720 thread] mentions the Hanoverian Regiments and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-02/0919004517 post] mentions Swiss regiments
*In 1860 the 109th Regiment of Foot in India was joined by 500 men of the Jaeger Corps who had volunteered from the Cape Colony(part of South Africa under British Occupation until 1910) for service in India on the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny according to this India list List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-03/1078511503 thread]*This India list [ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-08/1218693873 thread] is about Germans in Dutch East India Company regiments in India or the East Indies and advises they were often taken over by the EIC
