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British India was divided into three Presidencies :
*[[Bombay]], which covered the west and north of the country, including what is now [[Pakistan]];
*[[Bengal]], which covered the east of the country and included [[Burma]] and what is now [[Bangladesh]]; . It extended west to parts of what is now [[Pakistan]], including [[Lahore]], [[Multan]], [[Peshawar]] and [[Rawalpindi]].
*[[Madras]], which covered the southern portion of India. The main cities of the Presidencies were [[Bombay]], [[Calcutta]] and [[Madras]], respectively.
The first British church in India was St Mary's in [[Fort St George]], [[Madras]], which was consecrated in 1680. Many other churches were established after that date and records exist for most of them from the time of their consecration. Every year on Lady Day (25th March), British churches were required to send copies of their ecclesiastical records to the capital city of each Presidency. The Presidencies then indexed the records and sent them to the India Office in London (now [[APAC]] at the [[British Library]]). The Mormons have microfilmed all the ecclesiastical records, including the indices, and made them available to Mormons and non-Mormons alike.
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