Ντόντη / Dodis, Έλληνες στις Ινδίες / Greeks in India (2002)
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Ντόντη / Dodis, Έλληνες στις Ινδίες / Greeks in India (2002)

The first Greek traders who sought their fortunes in the East, outside the sphere of the Ottoman yoke, settled in Bengal during the eighteenth century. A century later, émigrés from Chios opened branches of their London-based commercial firms in Calcutta, employing a great number of Greeks. The most prosperous of these firms was that of “Ralli Brothers”, who opened branches in the big cities and agencies throughout the whole of the Indian subcontinent. Since the last decades of the 19th and up to the middle of the 20th century, Ralli Brothers employed hundreds of Greeks to run their Indian operations, creating a considerable emigrant movement and she, herself, was born in Karachi and lived in Calcutta during her early childhood. Making use of personal interviews with surviving members of the Greek communities of India and recording their memories, she gives a vivid and most interesting picture of their way of life. At the same time, she describes unsparingly the various parts of the subcontinent where the expatriates lived and records the main historical events of the times which marked the life and works of the Greeks who lived in India.
Contents:
Acknowledgements p. 9. Prologue pp. 11-13. Introduction. Historical and Geographical Background pp. 15-25. Chapter One. The Early Greeks pp. 27-39. Chapter Two. The Greek Orthodox Church pp. 41-57. Chapter Three. The Ralli Family and Chios pp. 59-67. Chapter Four. The Firm Of Ralli Brothers pp. 69-75. Other Greek Firms pp. 77-91. Chapter Five. Life Upcountry p. 93. Bengal pp. 93-99. The Sind pp. 99-105. Gujarat p. 105. The Punjab pp. 105-109. The South pp. 109-113. Chapter Six. Life in the Cities p. 115. Calcutta pp. 115-133. The Language Question pp. 133-137. Madras pp. 137-141. Bombay pp. 141-151. Karachi pp. 153-165. Epilogue pp. 167-171. Notes pp. 173-175. Appendix pp. 177-183. Total pages, 184.