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- 1 2 Jacob Seth Mesrovb, Armenians in India - From the Earliest Times to the Present Archived 2014-09-11 at the Wayback Machine , Calcutta, 1937, "Armenians at Lahore" p.201-206 (digitalized)
- ↑ Theodore P. C. Gabriel, Christian Citizens in an Islamic State: The Pakistan Experience , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007, p.10 ISBN 9780754660361
- ↑ Annie Basil, Armenian Settlements in India: from the earliest times to the present day, Calcutta, Armenian College, 1969, p.63, quoted in: Naira Mkrtchyan, “Indian Settlement in Armenia and Armenian Settlements in India and South Asia Archived February 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine ”, Indian Historical Review July 2005 32: 64-87, doi:10.1177/037698360503200204
- ↑ Details about the Armenian community of Lahore on Chater Genealogy site
- ↑ "Colonel Derek Joseph: Who was the Armenian Colonel who destroyed several Indian tanks during the 1971 war". BBC News (in Urdu). 31 July 2021.
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