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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z-wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Real Life in India, embracing a view of the requirements of individuals appointed to any branch of the Indian Public Service; The Methods of Proceeding to India; and the course of Life in Different Parts of the Country''] by An Old Resident 1847 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z-wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents].
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India''] 1850 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents]. Includes vocabulary, weights and measures etc
*[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Bradshaw%27s+through+India*%29&sort=date ''Bradshaw’s Through Route…and Guide to India''] 1858-1862, 1865, 1869, 1884, 1903, 1913. Archive.org. Title varied over time. Title 1858-1861 is ''Bradshaw's railway &c. through route and overland guide to India, Egypt, and China; or The traveller's manual of how to reach and how to live in the three Presidencies of India''.
:''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bengal Presidency, and Western Provinces of India'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=1HwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 1860 edition], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HAVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8-IA1 1864 edition] Google Books
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR10-IA1 ''Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to the Madras Presidency, and the Central Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=N30DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books
:Bradshaw's Railway Guides were very well known in the UK and were used by Michael Portillo in his ''Great Railway Journeys'' television series.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part II Bombay''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fZQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA17 ''Bradshaw's Railway &c. Through Route and Overland Guide to India, Egypt, and China; or The Traveller's Manual…''] 1861 Google Books
:[http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014127987&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_OX&tab=local&lang=en_US 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.
*''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bengal Presidency, and Western Provinces of India'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=1HwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 1860 edition], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HAVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8-IA1 1864 edition] Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR10-IA1 ''Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to the Madras Presidency, and the Central Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=N30DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/details/handbookbengalp00eastgoog ''Handbook of the Bengal Presidency with an account of Calcutta City''] by Edward E Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookmadrasp00firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Madras Presidency''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, (almost entirely rewritten) 1879 Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra05murrgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Third Edition 1898], [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra52firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Fourth Edition 1901], [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra30firgoog#page/n7/mode/2up Fourth Edition, Second Impression 1903], [http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n5/mode/2up Eighth Edition 1911], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529359 Tenth Edition 1919] Archive.org. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c049725688?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Tenth Edition (reprinted) 1920] (originally published 1918) HathiTrust. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02497 Twelth Edition, 1926] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.236120 Fifteenth Edition 1938].
**Databases with images on the pay website Ancestry: [https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=34937 Murray's Handbook - India, Burma & Ceylon 1926] 12th edition; [https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=34938 Murray's Handbook- India, Burma and Ceylon 1933] 14th edition.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b24757986#page/600/mode/2up/ “Wintering in India”] page 600 ''Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians'' by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball, Fifth edition 1904 Archive.org. Also contains ''Volume II, North Africa and Mediterranean Islands'' from p 331. Ball also edited the 1913 edition of ''Bradshaw's Through Routes'', see above.
*Books in following sections may include initial chapters which could be classified as '"Guides".
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