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*''India, Burma, and Ceylon. Information for travellers and residents''. Published by Thos. Cook & Son [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.03045/page/n3/mode/2up 1897 edition] Archive.org Ministry Of Culture [India] Collection. [https://archive.org/details/indiaburmaceylon00thom/page/n4 1912 edition] Archive.org
*''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London
**[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, with a few changes] HathiTrust. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02497 Twelth Edition, 1926], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.236120 Fifteenth Edition 1938] Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrave0000unse_n4m7/page/n5/mode/2up Sixteenth Edition 1949], [https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrave0013rush/page/n5/mode/2up Twentieth Edition 1965] latter two Archive.org Books to Borrow. [https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28+%22Handbook+for+Travellers+in+India+%22%29&sort=date Additional years and editions are also available on Archive.org].**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. Both these editions are also available on Archive.org, see immediately above.
*[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".
*[https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3], [https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913012017/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 tcaup.umich.edu, now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210126064213/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, now archived.
*[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
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210202101327/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/onmyplate/little-luxuries-splendour-in-the-grass/ "Little Luxuries: Splendour in the grass"] by Vikram Doctor May 24, 2013 ''The Times of India: The Economic Times'', archived. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150301022453/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=ETNEW&BaseHref=ETM%2F2013%2F05%2F24&PageLabel=28&EntityId=Ar02801&ViewMode=HTML Alternative version with a photograph] (now archived) "...a system of cooling that used the roots of a type of jungle grass called khus-khus that ... was "collected on account of their aromatic smell, to form thatch tatties, or screens for the doors and windows.""
*[https://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080817/spectrum/main1.htm "Beating the heat: Cooling tales from the Raj"] by Pran Nevile August 17, 2008 ''Spectrum: The Tribune''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160611183423/http://budapesttimes.hu/2014/09/10/finding-a-punkah-wallah-and-other-essential-raj-tips/ "Finding a punkah-wallah, and other essential Raj tips"] Flora Steel and Grace Gardiner wrote a book in the 1880s “The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook” 10 September 2014 ''The Budapest Times'', now an archived webpage. The book is available online, refer below.
*[http://rupkatha.com/memsahib-performing/ "The “Politically Correct Memsahib”: Performing Englishness in Select Anglo-Indian Advice Manuals"] by S Vimala, M G R College, Hosur. ''The Rupkatha Journal'' Volume 5, No. 2, 2013.
*[https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0088139 ''Travelling Home and Empire: British Women in India, 1857-1939''] by Alison Mary Blunt. PhD Thesis University of British Columbia 1997. "This study focuses on the British wives of civil servants and army officers who lived in India from 1857 to 1939".
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200929141637/https://www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2018/12/12/dak-banglas-their-dark-tales "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales"] by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. ''Live History India.'' , archived. "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."
*[https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/heritage/back-then-at-the-burra-bungalows-of-tea-estates/cid/1680275 "Back then, at the burra bungalows of tea estates"] by Moumita Chaudhuri 30 Dec. 2018 ''The Telegraph'' India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/englishbrideinin035142mbp#page/n3/mode/2up '' The English Bride in India''] by Chota Mem (Junior Memsahib, [Mrs. C. Lang]) 1909 Archive.org. The author is mentioned in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160611053842/https://gherkinstomatoes.com/2009/08/20/cooks-of-the-british-raj-in-the-shadows/ "Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments"] from Cynthia Bertelsen’s Gerkins and Tomatoes, now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianidylls00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Idylls''] by Edith E Cuthell 1890 Archive.org. Short stories by the wife of an Army Officer
:[https://archive.org/details/indianmemories00burrrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Indian Memories''] by W S Burrell and Edith E Cuthell 1893 Archive.org. [https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2021/02/a-british-army-route-march-in-india.html British Library Untold lived blog] about one of the stories "Up to the Hills".
:[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://books.google.com.au/books?id=MPA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Many Camps : Sketches of Indian Life''] by Arthur Waltham Howlett 1912, (articles republished from the ''Manchester Guardian'') Google Books, [https://archive.org/details/many-camps-sketches-of-indian-life Archive.org version] which describe "travel all over the Raj, from Robat on the Persian Border, the Baluchistan desert, to hill stations and jungle rivers, from desert winters to monsoon rains". Howlett was at that time an Indian Army doctor with the Indian Medical Service, (who later changed to the British Army RAMC).
