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There are many surnames common to both India and the West Indies, particularly Jamaica. "I wondered if anybody thought to look westwards when they hit a brick wall in India".<ref>Harding, Simon. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191019010442/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2240311/ Private Merchants & Photo's from India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 19 December 2009, now archived. Scroll down. Retrieved 5 August 2018.</ref>

A number of families who were active in India, had in previous generations also taken part in the development of the West Indies. Some of the most effective officers in India during the 1780's and 1790's had previously served in the West Indies. The reverse also applied. Planters from India moved to the West Indies to run plantations there.<ref>Balmer, Nick. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180905122932/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2240384/ Private Merchants & Photo's from India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 19 December 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2018, now archived.</ref>