The Jewish Museum in London presents the story of British Jews while also honoring the Jewish community as a whole. The Baghdadi Jewish community in India is one such community.
This Jewish population, which originated in Iraq and spread over the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, played a critical economic role in the region, which functioned as the commercial center for the British East India Company.
The Arabic-speaking Jewish community was one of the first to migrate to India in the 18th century.
The community thrived in the cities of Mumbai and Kolkata, making their fortune as merchants, in finance, or the cotton, jute, and tobacco processing and opium trades, some fleeing persecution from the Muslim Turkish rulers of Baghdad, while others wished to take advantage of the flourishing trade and commerce under British control.
Source: https://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/2019/07/30/understanding-the-indian-baghdadi-jews/
