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Asian immigrants were beginning to
be noted in London in the 1780s. Lascar seamen were being press-ganged
onto ship crews in India and then abandoned in London. The law obliged
the East India Company to take responsibility for them, and they
maintained a hostel in Ratcliff Highway for about a thousand Lascar
seamen, who were kept on the verge of starvation and suffered a
high mortality rate from malnutrition and disease.
St Nicholas Church baptism registers
records on December 28th 1826 the baptism of a Jon Khristian, parents
unknown, born in India, and on 17th November 1817, Horatio, son
of Dean and Jane Mahomed, battery
House, East Street, Brighton.
1914-1918
- Wounded Indian Troops at the Brighton Pavilion
Two Indian Memorials exist in Brighton
The Chattri Memorial Service 22nd June 2003
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