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A pilgrimage to Calcutta recalls Armenian history

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  • A pilgrimage to Calcutta recalls Armenian history

    Nice read.

    "CALCUTTA: Before there were call centers and Indian conglomerates, before the East India Co. or the British Raj, there were Armenians who made their way to India to trade and to escape religious persecution from the Turks and, later, Persians.

    Entrepreneurial and devout Christians, but familiar with the Islamic ways of Mughal emperors, Armenians arrived in northeast India in the early 1600s, some 60 years before British adventurers became ...."

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