Life in India

The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website Voices from South Asia which contains material from an exhibition which was held in Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, April 8 to August 6, 1996. The exhibition marked the acquisition by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU of a series of taped interviews with British people who lived and worked in India before Independence in 1947.

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FIBIS Resources

• Bombay Golf Club Members

The Passage to India

• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1 LSU Interviews, Chapter 1
• This India List thread discusses the “overland route” from London to India.
• The FIBIS Google Books Library has books in the category "overland route"
• The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India MichelHoude.com

Work

• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2 LSU Interviews, Chapter 2

Marriage

• This India List thread discusses under age marriage.

• This India List 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

• The following letter from Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, written in 1826 to the Archbishop of Canterbury sets out the situation applying to Army soldiers and permission to marry. In Church records of marriages, marriage is by licence or by banns. In India, at least in this period, marriage by banns included marriage under the conditions mentioned by Bishop Heber. From Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825; (With notes upon Ceylon,) an Account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India, Volume 2 Page 251 Google Books

• On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army, a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.

Life in the Bungalows

• India Album Kings College, London . "'A daughter of the Empire': Edwardian life in India, 1901-03", looks at the life of Beryl White, a member of the British ruling class. Her father, John Claude White, was the first British Political Officer in Sikkim, refer Photographer - Books
• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3 LSU Interviews, Chapter 3
• English Bride in India by Chota Mem ((Junior Memsahib, [Mrs. C. Lang]) 1909 Archive.org. The author is mentioned in "Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments" from Cynthia Bertelsen’s Gerkins and Tomatoes

Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field

• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4 LSU Interviews, Chapter 4
• The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj by Dane Kennedy, 1996 University of California Press online edition.
• Van Ingen and Van Ingen were master taxidermists who processed many tigers, leopards and other animals. For further details, refer Mysore, where their factory was located.

Historical Books Online

• Glimpses of Old Bombay by James Douglas, JP has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at Archive.org.
• Oriental Field Sports Volume 1 by Captain Thomas Williamson 1807 Google Books. With coloured illustrations
• Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals by Daniel Johnson 1827 Google Books
• The Old Forest Ranger, or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and On the Plains by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books
• Wild Men and Wild Beasts Scenes in Camp and Jungle by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
• Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier was first published 1878

Indo-British Relations

• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5 *LSU Interviews, Chapter 5

Departure and Connections

• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6 LSU Interviews, Chapter 6
• "The Curious Exclusion Of Anglo-Indians From Mass Slaughter During The Partition Of India". Experiences in India During 1947 of some who went to New Zealand by Dorothy McMenamin in 'The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 9, Number 1, 2006.

Miscellaneous

• "Identifying Domiciled Europeans in Colonial India: Poor Whites or Privileged Community?" by Dorothy McMenamin The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 6, Number 1, 2001. Details four formal oral histories which are lodged at University of Canterbury [N.Z.] Library.
• The University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies has a collection of oral histories and home videos, as detailed in this Times On Line article. Access the Oral History Collection. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.
• This Indian Express article describes the book Mehtars and Marigolds by Barbara Dinner 2009, about four generations of her family from 1874, starting in Simla, available from the FIBIS Shop through Amazon.co.uk. This link also discusses the book.