British India – Commonwealth of the Philippines relations

Economic interaction would shape the relationship between the two countries for several centuries, with the Philippines becoming part of the footprint of the East India Company and British companies, which led the way in building the Philippines’ transportation infrastructure, establishing Iloilo as an international trading port, and igniting the Philippines’ sugar boom in Central Visayas. During World War II, The Philippines and British India fought on the same side and triumphed.

Colonial era (1857-1947)[edit]

This era witnessed great demand in the Philippines for South Asian slaves captured from the Dravidian speaking South India area and Indo-European speaking Bengal Coast.^[1]

During the period 1762–1764, during the various Anglo-Spanish wars, 600 Sepoy (or native Indian) troops arrived in the Philippines as part of the military expedition of the East India Company. When the British troops withdrew, many of the Sepoys mutinied and refused to leave. They settled in what is now Cainta, Rizal. The region in and around Cainta still has many Sepoy descendants.^[2]

During the 18th century, there was robust trade between Manila and the Coromandel Coast of Bengal, involving Philippine exports of tobacco, silk, cotton, indigo, sugar cane and coffee.

References[edit]

↑ Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720 By Furlong, Matthew J. "Slaves purchased by the indigenous elites, Spanish and Hokkiens of the colony seemed drawn most often from South Asia, particularly Bengal and South India, and less so, from other sources, such as East Africa, Brunei, Makassar, and Java..." Chapter 2 "Rural Ethnic Diversity" Page 164 (Translated from: "Inmaculada Alva Rodríguez, Vida municipal en Manila (siglos xvi-xvii) (Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba, 1997), 31, 35-36."
↑ Rye, Ajit Singh (2006), "The Indian Community in the Philippines", in A. Mani., Indian Communities in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 713, 720–721, ISBN 981-230-418-5

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[1] Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720 By Furlong, Matthew J. "Slaves purchased by the indigenous elites, Spanish and Hokkiens of the colony seemed drawn most often from South Asia, particularly Bengal and South India, and less so, from other sources, such as East Africa, Brunei, Makassar, and Java..." Chapter 2 "Rural Ethnic Diversity" Page 164 (Translated from: "Inmaculada Alva Rodríguez, Vida municipal en Manila (siglos xvi-xvii) (Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba, 1997), 31, 35-36."

[2] Rye, Ajit Singh (2006), "The Indian Community in the Philippines", in A. Mani., Indian Communities in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 713, 720–721, ISBN 981-230-418-5

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