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== Mailing Lists ==
All Rootsweb Mailing Lists, including the India List will close from 2 March 2020. However the [https://listsmlarchives.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/listlistindexes/emails?listname=india.rootsweb.com/ India List archives] will remain searchable.
It would be useful to search the India List archives to see if your ancestor's nationality has been discussed before. For example, you could search for the work "Greek" in the archives, to retrieve all previous references to messages that contained the word "Greek".
==British who worked for European East India Companies==
Especially during the period when a [[Bonds, Covenants, Indentures and Obligations, etc|bond]] was required, it was quite hard for a Briton to get permission to enter India, as there were always more applicants than positions, especially for the civilian merchant posts. Many excluded Britons, especially Scots, got around this ban by joining other European East India Companies like the Danish or Swedish ones, and then simply transferring over in India. When the European East India Companies ceased trading, at least some of the employees appear to have been taken on by the [British] East India Company.<ref>Balmer, Nicholas.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200226034404/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/4208205/ Permission to travel to India & Bonds until 1833] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 February 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2020, now archived. </ref>
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