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| ====Biographical==== | | ====Biographical==== |
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| *Allen, Charles
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| :''Duel In the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa'' by Charles Allen (2004)
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| * Bennett, Mary
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| :''Who was Dr Jackson? : two Calcutta families, 1830-55''. London: BACSA, 2002
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| *J M Morris (1932)
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| :''A Nursing Sister in Baluchistan'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ln2UOgAACAAJ No Preview Google Books]. Experiences at a mission hospital in Quetta from 1921.
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| *Webster Anthony 2007
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| :[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pqySRWanQusC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Richest+East+India+Merchant:&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UTg8U_OFIbPb7Ab67ICgBA&ved=0CDEQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Richest%20East%20India%20Merchant%3A&f=false ''The Richest East India Merchant: the Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836''] preview googlebooks. John Palmer ran an 'agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade.
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| ====General History==== | | ====General History==== |
| * Grey, C.
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| :''European Adventurers Of Northern India 1785 to 1849'' by C. Grey first published in 1929 and reprinted by the Languages Department, Punjab, Patiala, in 1970, contains biographical sketches of over one hundred Europeans who came to or served in the Punjab during Sikh times. Available as [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC Limited View Google Books] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT54 Index] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT52 Bibliography]
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| *[http://www.papertigers.org/reviews/China/asianReview/PickUp.html ''Pick up your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India''] by William Pennington 2003. ]
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| *[http://www.dailypioneer.com/vivacity/29520-its-in-the-indian-dna-to-be-organised.html Details] of the book ''Delhi Durbar 1911, The Complete Story'' by Sunil Raman and Lt Col Rohit Agarwal, Roli Books 2011. The Pioneer Wednesday, 21 December 2011
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| * Bhasin Raaja
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| :'' Simla - the summer capital of British India.'' Reprinted Rupa and Co 2011. [http://www.deccanherald.com/content/180162/glimpses-simla.html Review] in Deccan Herald
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| :''Traders and Nabobs: The British in Cawnpore 1765-1857'' by Zoe Yalland 1987 and ''Boxwallahs : the British in Cawnpore, 1857-1901'' by Zoë Yalland 1994. A description of the latter book is given in this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2198795 link]
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| *Mohanty Sachidananda (Editor)
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| :''Travel Writing and the Empire'', edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Katha, 2003, p. 185, Rs. 250. Details of the book can be found at [http://www.hindu.com/lr/2003/09/07/stories/2003090700240400.htm Narratives of the Self] hindu.com
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| :''Bencoolen: A History on the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825'' by Alan Harfield 1995. Read about the [http://wftw.nl/bencoolen/bencoolen.html book here].
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| ===Military History === | | ====Military History ==== |
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| *[http://www.thefirstanglosikhwar.com/ The First Anglo Sikh War: The Campaign and Battlefield Guide]. [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=7231 Post] by Mark Simner, Administrator of the Victorian Wars Forum regarding the book ''The First Anglo-Sikh War'' by Amarpal S. Sidhu. "This is an excellent book and deserves a rare five out of five star rating which is well earned!" The book includes new scale battlefields maps and GPS Co-ordinates.
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| *''The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849-1947'' by Timothy Robert Moreman , Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London Palgrave Macmillan, December 1998 ISBN: 978-0-312-21703-7 [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0333695410/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link Look Inside] includes Contents
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| *''Duty & Fidelity, The Indian Army August 1914 – 1922'' by Chris Kempton. In Three Parts (Part III being 2 volumes) (total four volumes). Part I: Divisions, Part II: Brigades Part III is in 2 sections: section 1 covers "Deployments" Section 2 of Part III is maps. [http://www.militarypress.co.uk/indian_military_history/index.htm#Indian Military Press] 2009. Available in hardback and softback. a total (not including the maps volume) of about 350 pages of approximately A4 size.<ref>Great War Forum post [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=168431 ''Duty & Fidelity'']</ref>
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| *[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=39UGAwAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Indian Army on the Western Front: India's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War''] by George Morton-Jack Cambridge University Press, 2014 Preview Google Books
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| * ''With the M.T. in Mesopotamia'' by Brevet Lieut. Col . F. W. Leland, R.A.S.C.. Published Naval & Military Press. The author was an officer in Mechanical Transport in 1916-1918. "An account of the work of Mechanised Units in Mesopotamia , vital to understanding supply problems in a harsh terrain".
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| *The British Library has the book ''The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia'' compiled by Lieut.-Col. L. J. Hall under the direction of Brigadier-General R. H. W. Hughes. [With plates.] published London 1921.
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| *[http://secondworldwaroperationsresearchgroup.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/book-review-the-indian-army-1939-47-experience-and-development/ The Indian Army 1939-47: Experience and Development]. The Second World War Military Operations Research Group
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| *Hughes, David, David A. Ryan and Steve Rothwell.
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| :''The British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, Volume 8: The Indian Army, Part One: The Indian Army in the West''
. [http://www.nafzigercollection.com/product/the-british-armies-in-world-war-two-an-organizational-history-vol-8-indian-army-part-1-the-indian-army-in-the-west/ Nafziger Collection, 2005]
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| :''The British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, Volume 9: The Indian Army, Part Two: The Indian Army in the East, 1939-43''
. [http://www.nafzigercollection.com/product/the-british-armies-in-world-war-two-an-organizational-history-vol-9-indian-army-part-2-the-indian-army-in-the-east-1939-1943-the-frontiers-and-the-interior/ Nafziger Collection, 2006]
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| :''The British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, Volume 10: The Indian Army, Part Three: The Indian Army in the East, 1944-45
''. [http://www.nafzigercollection.com/product/the-british-armies-in-world-war-two-an-organizational-history-vol-10-the-indian-army-part-3-the-indian-army-in-the-east-1944-1945/ Nafziger Collection, 2008]
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| : Reviews by Bill Stone: [http://stonebooks.com/archives/060305.shtml Volume 8] 5 March 2006, [http://stonebooks.com/archives/070121.shtml Volume 9] 21 January 2007, [http://stonebooks.com/archives/090104.shtml Volume 10] 4 January 2009. stonebooks.com (retrieved on 15 April 2014).
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| *Graham F Reed was a junior officer in the Royal Signals Corps in his early twenties, who was a Signals Officer with a Mountain Gun Regiment based at [[Razmak]] in Waziristan in 1945-47. His book is ''Walks in Waziristan'', with an extract [http://www.walksinwaziristan.com/preview In action] from [http://www.walksinwaziristan.com/ Walks in Waziristan]. The first two chapters are available from [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9CQ_b0jEhzMC&printsec=frontcove Preview Google Books]
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| * "''Road to Kabul''" by Brian Robson 1986 ISBN 1862271968
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| *[http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Maharajas_Paltans.html?id=btmrkQEACAAJ ''The Maharajas' Paltans: A History of the Indian State Forces 1888-1948''] by Richard Head and Tony McClenaghan. New Delhi United Service Institution of India Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2013. (in two volumes, 1081 pages). ISBN 9788173048883. Provides hitherto unknown information on battle and campaign honors, awards won by the Forces, (initially known as [[Imperial Service Troops]] as well as maps, color plates, and detailed notes on uniforms and insignia. Google Books
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| *[http://www.naval-military-press.com/history-of-the-guides-1846-1922.html ''History Of The Guides 1846-1922''] originally published 1938, which is available as a reprint.
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| *[http://www.naval-military-press.com/history-of-the-guides-1922-1947.html ''History Of The Guides 1922-1947''] by Lieut. General Sir George McMunn originally published 1950, which is available as reprint.
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| *Cloughley Brian [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1846830621 ''Trumpeters: The Story of the Royal Artillery's Boy Trumpeters''] Woodfield Publishing Ltd 2008(UK), includes training and military service in India
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| ====Miscellaneous==== | | ====Miscellaneous==== |
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| *Allen, Charles
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| :''The Buddha and the Sahibs'' (2002). A review by William Dalrymple, author of the ''White Mughals'', in the [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview4 Guardian], states “As Charles Allen shows in his book, under Sir William Jones, the Asiatic Society of Bengal became the scholarly nerve centre that brought together all the different amateur enthusiasts busily working at uncovering the deepest roots of India's lost pre-Islamic history. In the society's Calcutta premises were collated reports sent in from a huge range of eccentric figures working away at translating Buddhist scrolls or ancient rock inscriptions, Gandharan coins or Tibetan mythologies, far separated from each other in remote outposts between the highest peaks of the Himalayas in Tibet and Nepal, through the arid plains of the Deccan to the thickest jungles of 18th-century Burma and Ceylon.” Also reviewed in the [http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/20265/light-from-eastern-windows.thtml Spectator] and available from [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddha-Sahibs-Discovered-Indias-Religion/dp/0719554284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260482001&sr=8-1 Amazon.co.uk].
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| *Bevan, Amanda (2006)576 pages.
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| :''Tracing your Ancestors in The National Archives'' is stated by [[The National Archives]] to be the only exhaustive guide to TNA’s holdings. It is to be noted that Chapter 8 details 'Births, marriages and deaths of Britons overseas or in the armed services'
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| *Broadbent James, Rickard Suzanne and Steven Margaret
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| :[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/30/1054177716867.html Review by William Dalrymple of the book ''India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850''] by James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard and Margaret Steven 2003
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| *Spencer, William (2008)
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| :''Army Records: A Guide for Family Historians''. Mainly about records in the [[The National Archives|TNA]] and the India Office at the [[British Library]]. Contains chapters '[[Royal Artillery]]' and 'The [[British Army]] in India' and the '[[Indian Army]]'.
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| * Thomas, Noel (Editor)
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| :''Footprints on the Track, Anglo-Indian Railway Memories'' (published by Anglo-Link 2013). For information about this book see [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/of-the-railways-and-the-lives-inextricably-linked-to-it/article5211159.ece "Of the Railways and the lives inextricably linked to it"] October 8, 2013 ''The Hindu Chennai'' (Madras).
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| :A book has been written called Walers : Australian Horses Abroad by Yarwood, A. T. (Alexander Turnbull), 1927-2002. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1989.: ISBN: 0522843859
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| *[http://www.houseofdavid.ca/fozdar.htm Details] of the book ''Constructing the 'Brother': Freemasonry, Empire, and Nationalism in India, 1840—1925'', by Vahid Jalil Fozdar, in two volumes, University Of California, Berkeley, 2001. Freemasonry contributed to Indian nationalism in four main ways. The [http://www20.csueastbay.edu/class/departments/history/about/faculty-profiles.html author] is Associate Professor, California State University, East Bay.
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| *''The Autobiography of a Wanderer In England and Burma: Memoirs of a Former Mayor of Rangoon'' by Charles Haswell Campagnac, published 2011, with more details [http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-autobiography-of-a-wanderer-in-england-burma/15691800# here]. The author was a lawyer born 1886 in India, with a [[French]] Huguenot ancestor. Covers the period to World War 2, including the bombing by the Japanese and subsequent flight to India.
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| *[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3791327860?ie=UTF8&tag=faminbriindso-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=3791327860 ''From Kashmir to Kabul''] by Omar A. Khan (2002). The harsh beauty of this region has been luring photographers since the Victorian age, the most famous of whom were two Irishmen William Baker and John Burke. The book chronicles their early days in Peshawar and their move to Murree, the Himalayan hill station on the border of Kashmir. It follows their documenting of the Afghan Wars, some of the earliest war photography, and their return to the plains of Lahore, where they continued to photograph the region’s people and landscape.<br> [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qKzMQTgtNaIC Limited View Google Books ]. Read the [http://web.archive.org/web/20090117080242/http://fsaijazuddin.pk/ArticleDetailsFull.aspx?op=E&NewsID=130 Preface] to the book (now archived) by F S Aijazuddin, which contains biographical details. Read a [http://www.kashmirtokabul.com/histofphoto.html review] of the book by Sophie Gordon in History of Photography 2003.
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| *[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/189020661X?ie=UTF8&tag=faminbriindso-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=189020661X ''In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet - Bhutan - Nepal - Sikkim A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908''] by Kurt Meyer (2006). John Claude White (1853-1918) was a civil engineer by education, a colonial administrator by profession, and a photographer by vocation. Read a [http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/projectteam/turin/downloads/review_Meyer.pdf review] (pdf) of the book which contains biographical information, by Mark Turin of the University of Cambridge. John Claude White was the author of ''Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the north-east frontier, 1887-1908'' published 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924024155206 Archive.org]
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| *[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0921788037?ie=UTF8&tag=faminbriindso-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=0921788037 ''Sepia Prints: Memoirs of a Missionary''] by Viola Wiebe and Marilyn Wiebe Dodge (1990) is one of the few books to highlight the large amount of photographic material available from Christian archives and missionaries active in colonial India. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=62dc3tmfwAQC Limited View Google Books]. See also [[Missionary#Other_External_Links|Missionary]].
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| *The book ''Early British Photography in India'', published 1992. It was originally published as ''History of Photography'' Volume 16, No. 4 1992 pages 299-413
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| == References == | | == References == |