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Life in the Bungalows
*[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
*[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/lF0dzzkkqGbwlAN5cTGR8M/Quick-Lit--Post-facto.html The Dak Bungalow] 19 October 2012 livemint.com
*[http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/onmyplate/entry/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. [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] "...a system of cooling that used the roots of a type of jungle grass called khus-khus that, she noted was "collected on account of their aromatic smell, to form thatch tatties, or screens for the doors and windows.""
 
===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
 
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India''] by George Francklin Atkinson. Third edition (1860?) First published 1858. Archive.org. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, in the Umballa Division
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