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In 2014, the cemetery was reported to be "overrun with weeds" and still used largely by the small Baghdadi Jewish community, said to number just over a hundred. While some Israelis were also being buried, they were usually ones related to the Baghdadi Jews.
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The cemetery has declined since the days when there was a large community of Jews in Bombay, with numbers falling during the second half of the 20th century from around 7,000 to only a small fraction of that.
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Elias David Sassoon, a leading Bombay merchant and banker, created the cemetery in January 1878 in memory of his son Joseph, who had died at
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Covering two acres, the burial ground now contains more than a thousand graves, and new burials continue to take place.
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Mumbai Secrets: Jewish film stars and holocaust victims remembered in a Chinchpokli cemetery
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Two large mausoleums of very similar design contain the remains of
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Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos
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cemetery
Chinchpokli
Bombay
Elias David Sassoon
Shanghai
Sephardic
Baghdadi Jews
Sir Jacob Sassoon
Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet
Miss India
Esther Victoria Abraham
Buchenwald
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Sassoon family





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