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*[https://archive.org/details/39002011128791.med.yale.edu  ''A Domestic Guide to Mothers in India, containing particular instructions on the management of themselves and their children''] by a Medical Practitioner of Several Years Experience in India. Printed in Bombay 1836. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/39002011128791.med.yale.edu  ''A Domestic Guide to Mothers in India, containing particular instructions on the management of themselves and their children''] by a Medical Practitioner of Several Years Experience in India. Printed in Bombay 1836. Archive.org.
*''Hints for the general management of children in India, in the absence of professional advice''. Title  and authors subsequently varied over time: ''Goodeve's hints for the general management of children in India''  7th edition 1879 Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment;  ''The management and medical treatment of children in India'';  ''Birch's Management And Medical Treatment Of Children In India''; ''Birch's Management And Medical Treatment Of Children In India And The Tropics''.
*''Hints for the general management of children in India, in the absence of professional advice''. Title  and authors subsequently varied over time: ''Goodeve's hints for the general management of children in India''  7th edition 1879 Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment;  ''The management and medical treatment of children in India'';  ''Birch's Management And Medical Treatment Of Children In India''; ''Birch's Management And Medical Treatment Of Children In India And The Tropics''.
:[https://archive.org/details/b2870888x 4th edition 1856 by Dr H H Goodeve] First published 1844. [https://archive.org/details/b21498039 7th edition 1879] Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment.  Became Birch’s 1st edition. [https://archive.org/details/b28710344 2nd edition 1886], [https://archive.org/details/b21500241 3rd edition 1895], [https://archive.org/details/managementmedica00bircrich 5th edition 1913] Updated by  C R M Green and  V B Green-Armytage. All Archive.org. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/12214 1929 edition] by V. B.Green-Armytage and E.H.Vere Hodge, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/547297 8th edition 1933], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547297  Archive.org version] by E. H. Vere Hodge 1933, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31264 9th edition 1933]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31264 Archive.org version]. Latter three, pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.
:[https://archive.org/details/b2870888x 4th edition 1856 by Dr H H Goodeve] First published 1844. [https://archive.org/details/b21498039 7th edition 1879] Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment.  Became Birch’s 1st edition. [https://archive.org/details/b28710344 2nd edition 1886], [https://archive.org/details/b21500241 3rd edition 1895], [https://archive.org/details/managementmedica00bircrich 5th edition 1913] Updated by  C R M Green and  V B Green-Armytage. All Archive.org. 1929 edition by V. B.Green-Armytage and E.H.Vere Hodge (previously available Digital Library of India may return in the future};  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547297  8th edition 1933 Archive.org version] by E. H. Vere Hodge, mirror from Digital Library of India.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31264 9th edition 1933 Archive.org version],  mirror from Digital Library of India
 
*[https://archive.org/details/outofindiarajchi00foss ''Out of India : a Raj Childhood''] by Michael Foss 2001. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/childrenofraj00bren ''Children of the Raj''] by Vyvyen Brendon 2005.  Archive.org Lending Library.
==Life in the Bungalows==
==Life in the Bungalows==
*See also [[Food and Drink]]
*See also [[Food and Drink]]
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/mygardenincityg00cutgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory''] by Edith E Cuthell 1905 Archive.org. Memories of life as an Army Officer’s wife in Lucknow.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/mygardenincityg00cutgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory''] by Edith E Cuthell 1905 Archive.org. Memories of life as an Army Officer’s wife in Lucknow.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211175/page/n7 ''British Social Life In India 1608-1937''] by  Dennis Kincaid 1938. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211175/page/n7 ''British Social Life In India 1608-1937''] by  Dennis Kincaid 1938. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/plaintalesfromra00char ''Plain Tales from the Raj : images of British India in the twentieth century''] by Charles  Allen 1986, first published 1975. [https://archive.org/details/plaintalesfromra00alle  1975 edition]. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries.  Both editions Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/raj00lwor/page/n1 ''Raj: a Scrapbook of British India, 1877-1947''] by Charles Allen 1977. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/womenofraj00macm ''Women of the Raj''] by  Margaret Olwen Macmillan 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. 
*[https://archive.org/stream/simpleadventures00dunc#page/n9/mode/2up ''The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib''] 
by Sara Jeannette Duncan ... With illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 1893 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/simpleadventures00dunc#page/n9/mode/2up ''The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib''] 
by Sara Jeannette Duncan ... With illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 1893 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/221032 ''Indian Notes About Dogs''] by Major C. 1893. Pdf download, Digital Library of India,  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221032  Archive.org version].  Full title: ''Indian Notes about Dogs, their Diseases and Treatment''. Compiled by Major C- [Chambers], author of ''Horse Notes''. Earlier edition 1889
* ''Indian Notes About Dogs'' by Major C. 1893.   [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221032  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.  Full title: ''Indian Notes about Dogs, their Diseases and Treatment''. Compiled by Major C- [Chambers], author of ''Horse Notes''. Earlier edition 1889
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523701 ''Your Dog In India''] by Pat Sharpe 1944. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523701  Archive.org version].
* ''Your Dog In India''  by Pat Sharpe 1944. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523701  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.


==Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field==  
==Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field==  
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*[https://archive.org/details/99999990342498DivideAndQuit  ''Divide and Quit''] by Penderel Moon c 1961 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/99999990342498DivideAndQuit  ''Divide and Quit''] by Penderel Moon c 1961 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/LastYearsOfBritishIndia ''The Last Years Of British India''] by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/LastYearsOfBritishIndia ''The Last Years Of British India''] by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.org.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/124549 ''Freedom At Midnight''] by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre c 1975 Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124549  Archive.org version].  The events in India in 1947
* ''Freedom At Midnight'' by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre c 1975 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124549  Archive.org version],  mirror from Digital Library of India.  The events in India in 1947
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/220202 ''Partition And Aftermath: Memoirs of an Ambassador''] by Kewal Singh 1992. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.220202  Archive.org version].  Also available to read online on [http://www.apnaorg.com/books/english/partition-aftermath/book.php?fldr=book  Academy of the Punjab in North America].
* ''Partition And Aftermath: Memoirs of an Ambassador'' by Kewal Singh 1992. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.220202  Archive.org version],  mirror from Digital Library of India.  Also available to read online on [http://www.apnaorg.com/books/english/partition-aftermath/book.php?fldr=book  Academy of the Punjab in North America].
*For books about Lord Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, see [[Governor-General]].
*For books about Lord Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, see [[Governor-General]].
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/rajquartet00paul ''The Raj Quartet''] by Paul Scott, first published in one volume 1976. Published individually  1966-1975.  Archive.org Lending Library.
*: Consisting of: ''The Jewel in the Crown''.--''The Day of the Scorpion''.--''The Towers of Silence''.--''A Division of the Spoils''
*:"Four novels covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India."


==Miscellaneous==
==Miscellaneous==

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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website British Voices from South Asia, now archived, 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.

Also see Society reading list

FIBIS Resources

Guides

7 Digitised volumes Volume 1 is for 1858, Volume 7 is for 1869. University of Oxford, England Digital collection.
Bradshaw's Railway Guides were very well known in the UK and were used by Michael Portillo in his Great Railway Journeys television series.

The Passage to India

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
Overland Route Travel

Also see Maritime Service for descriptions of some sea voyages to India.

The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.

Historical books online

Work

Historical books online

Marriage and children

  • 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
    • This letter also contains the wording “...while the miseries and dangers to which an unprotected woman is liable in India are such as to make it highly desirable that widows and female orphans should remain as short a time unmarried as possible”. (page 252)
  • "Judith Weston and her search for a husband" in 1727-1728. 19 June 2017 British Library’s Untold lives blog.
  • Article "The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj" by Frances Wilson 30 July 2012 The Telegraph
  • Article "Husband hunters of the Raj: How a 'fishing fleet' of 1920s society girls were drawn into sexual intrigues in India even steamier than the climate" by Annabel Venning dated 6 July 2012 MailOnline
  • Husband-hunting in the Raj Download a radio interview with Anne de Courcy, journalist and author by presenter Phillip Adams, broadcast Tuesday 31 July 2012 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
  • Interview: The Fishing Fleet. Anne de Courcy Anne de Courcy paints a fascinating portrait of 'husband-hunting in the Raj the subject of her new book. (host Paul French) Adelaide Week, March 2013 YouTube
  • British women married to Indian men.
It is interesting to note that two of the following couples met in Britain when the future husband was studying.
  • 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.
  • The Army Children Archive (TACA) contains information about British Army children and wives, with themes such as Accomodation and On the Move. There are references to India in a number of the themes.
  • "Childhood Memories of India" by John Goddard, KRRC. KRRC Association. The author was born in 1923 and lived most of the time until 1933 in India, in cantonments in Lucknow and Calcutta. His father was officers’ mess sergeant in a battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (the 60th Rifles).
  • Peshawar Remembered by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. khyberlodge.co.uk, now archived. and another version (archived). The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. "Memories of Murree" also by Walter Reeve. Details of a visit to Murree in 1936 from the author’s father’s memoirs, and the author’s memory of visits in 1948 and 1949. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Scroll down. Jang Newspapers 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.
  • Indian Tales by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com, now archived.

Historical books online

4th edition 1856 by Dr H H Goodeve First published 1844. 7th edition 1879 Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment. Became Birch’s 1st edition. 2nd edition 1886, 3rd edition 1895, 5th edition 1913 Updated by C R M Green and V B Green-Armytage. All Archive.org. 1929 edition by V. B.Green-Armytage and E.H.Vere Hodge (previously available Digital Library of India may return in the future}; 8th edition 1933 Archive.org version by E. H. Vere Hodge, mirror from Digital Library of India. 9th edition 1933 Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India

Life in the Bungalows

FIBIS resources

  • "A Parsonage in Madras - Elizabeth Sharp’s letters" by Diana Bousfield-Wells FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013) pages 38-48. She married Thomas Smith at the end of 1883. The letters from Madras were written in 1884 until she died in December 1884 following childbirth. See FIBIS Journals for details of how to access this article
  • "Calvert Smith, the baby from the Parsonage" by Diana Bousfield-Wells FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013) pages 33 -42 . Continuing the previous article. Letters by the Rev Thomas Smith until his death in early 1888, regarding the care of his young son.
  • "Memories of my childhood in British India" by Pearline Philomena Berry FIBIS Journal Number 34 (Autumn 2015). page 49. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals.
  • "An English Bride in Edwardian India" by Christine Kendell FIBIS Journal Number 35 (Spring 2016), pages 3-5. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals.

Historical books online

Tropical Trials. A Hand-book for Women in the Tropics by Major S Leigh Hunt Madras Army and Alexander S Kenny. 1883 Archive.org.
Tweed's Cow-keeping In India 5th edition, revised by S N Sinha, 1931 Archive.org.
Mrs. Temple-Wright's Flowers and Gardens in India. With a Hindustant Vocabulary of Gardening and Botanical Terms 7th edition revised and edited by W Burns. 1922. Archive.org
Raj: a Scrapbook of British India, 1877-1947 by Charles Allen 1977. Archive.org Lending Library.
  • Women of the Raj by Margaret Olwen Macmillan 1988. Archive.org Lending Library.
  • The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib 
by Sara Jeannette Duncan ... With illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 1893 Archive.org
  • Indian Notes About Dogs by Major C. 1893. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: Indian Notes about Dogs, their Diseases and Treatment. Compiled by Major C- [Chambers], author of Horse Notes. Earlier edition 1889
  • Your Dog In India by Pat Sharpe 1944. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.

Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field

Historical Books Online

Railway Life

Indo-British Relations

Departure and Connections

"British Troops Leave" The Glasgow Herald August 18, 1947 Google News
"This Bloody Line" A film by Ram Madhvani. Cyril Radcliffe was the British lawyer tasked with deciding on the dividing line at Partition. YouTube video.

Historical books online

  • [Extract from] The Last of the Bengal Lancers [published 1988] by Brig (Retd) Francis H B Ingall Defence Journal December 1998 defencejournal.com, now archived. The author travelled from India to Pakistan, to work for the Pakistan Army, and comments on the massacres.
  • The Last Days Of The British Raj by Leonard Mosley 1960 Archive.org
  • Divide and Quit by Penderel Moon c 1961 Archive.org
  • The Last Years Of British India by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.org.
  • Freedom At Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre c 1975 Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. The events in India in 1947
  • Partition And Aftermath: Memoirs of an Ambassador by Kewal Singh 1992. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available to read online on Academy of the Punjab in North America.
  • For books about Lord Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, see Governor-General.
  • Fiction
    • The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott, first published in one volume 1976. Published individually 1966-1975. Archive.org Lending Library.
    Consisting of: The Jewel in the Crown.--The Day of the Scorpion.--The Towers of Silence.--A Division of the Spoils
    "Four novels covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India."

Miscellaneous

Access the Oral History Collection. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.
Access the Home video Collection. Approximately 50 individual collections totalling in the region of 80 hours of footage, taken between 1911 and 1956, with probably most from the 1930s.

Also see

Recommended Reading

  • 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. This link also discusses the book which has been favourably reviewed in FIBIS Journal no 25 (Spring 2011).

References

  1. “Back in Bombay” “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)”
  2. “The Wedding “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)”
  3. "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt I", "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt II" The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles.