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The Bagdhadis were Arabic speaking immigrants to British India, who lived in India but were never of India. They were industrialist, traders and financiers who settled in Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon. They remained aloof from Indianness, English replacing Arabic as their mother tongue.

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