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Much of India belonged to the Mogul Empire, which was founded in India in 1526. Various European states, starting with the Portuguese, established trading bases in India but the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) had become the dominant power by 1691. The British Empire in India was recognised by the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

In 1947, the records of the HEIC were transferred to the British Library’s Oriental and India Office Collections, known as the India Office Library, whose records are comprehensively described in M. Moir’s A General Guide to the India Office Library (British Library 1988). The library’s vast collections are very well indexed and has a biographical index, which brings together details on individuals from many of its sources, including records of birth, baptism and so on. These can be found at http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI. Records include ships’ passenger lists for those coming and going – and a vast many did, either with the army or in some civil capacity

In addition to the wealth of material at the India Office, the SoG has a formidable collection relating to the British in India, not least the India index, containing much biographical data. The Indiaman, a magazine covering the British in India, has launched a wesbite www.indiaman.com. In India the main archives are the National Archives of India.