Eighteenth century Jewish gravestones in Madras, India. Jewish traders in coral and gemstones from Amsterdam, London and Livorno established a merchant community here under the auspices of the English East India Company in the 17th c. One of the first was Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia) who died here in 1687. His widow married the governor of Madras (then called Fort St George) Elihu Yale of Yale University fame. The last Jewish merchant Moses de Castro left in 1786.