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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2001-10/1003835376 thread] discusses under age marriage.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-09/1158981804 thread] mentions a marriage performed by an Army Adjutant in 1809, with remarriage by a clergyman in 1812. Only the second marriage appears in the records.
*[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/4/book-review-the-complete-indian-housekeeper-and-co/ Review] of the book ''The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook'', a reprint of the 1898 edition,(first published 1888) Washington Times Friday, 4 June 2010 ; [http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/camp-life Extract about camp life]; India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2003-05/1052128663 thread] about the 1904 edition. This book is available through Amazon,co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/019955014X FIBIS Shop]
*This British Raj List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301732351 thread] led to a British Raj list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301860937 post] with a transcription of a newspaper report about the Lillywhite family, poisoned by arsenic by the family cook in Mandalay, Burma, c 1899, resulting in three deaths.
==Death==
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-11/1226939768 post] advises “Personnel of all ranks were usually buried on the spot, with what to some today think of as unseemly haste, but it must be remembered that there was then no refrigeration and the human body does not last long in tropical heat."
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-11/1227000024 post] and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-07/1279549350 post] and [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-07/1279611978 response] refer to the preservation of bodies after death at sea.
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==Marriage and children==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogis_22selb#page/n517/mode/2up “Returns of Marriages at Outstations in the Madras Presidency, Recorded in the Register Book of St Mary’s, Fort St George, between 1783 and 1805”] by F.E.P. gives background details of marriages by Civil Residents and Commanding Officers (from ''The Genealogist, Volume 22 1906'', page 248 Archive.org)
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3]
*[http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/workfolio/glover.pdf "“A Feeling of Absence from Old England:” the Colonial Bungalow"] by William J Glover Home Cultures Volume 1 Issue 1 pages 61-82 2004(?)
*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/landourcookbooks.html "The Landour Community Centre Cookbooks: From the 1920s to the 1960s and the present"] by Katharine (Kittu) Parker Riddle. An article dated 1 July 2003
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/02/family-budgets-in-1920s-india.html Family budgets in 1920s India] by John O’Brien 27 February 2012 British Library Blog: Untold Lives: Sharing stories from the past
*[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/lF0dzzkkqGbwlAN5cTGR8M/Quick-Lit--Post-facto.html The Dak Bungalow] 19 October 2012 livemint.com
*[http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Ajmer_1933_1940(1).htm Ajmer 1933-40] Life in a railway colony from [http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] by Eugene Blanchette born 1933, from his website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120103153846/http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/category/grandpas-story/ Grandpa’s Story]. Percy Morris joined the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]] (MSM) as an Assistant Locomotive Superintendent in 1925. He became Chief Mechanical Engineer, and later Director of the Railway Board, until he retired in 1955. Blog by his granddaughter of 1986 interviews in 15 parts. Scroll to the bottom for part 1 Indian service commences part 2.
==Indo-British Relations==
