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*Central Internment Camp ([[Dehra Dun]] / Premnagar): This was mixed civilian internment and prisoner-of-war camp. Italian prisoners of war and German civilian internees housed in separate camps. Wing 1 and Wing 6 held German internees.
*Delhi – Japanese Camp: [[Delhi]] housed the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma.
*Deoli (Ajmer) – Civil Internment Camp: Deoli housed German civilian internees and Japanese civilian internees. It was also a punishment colony for Germans. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoli,_Rajasthan Deoli] (Wikipedia)
The above information is mainly taken from the website [http://indianbanknote.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/india-prisoner-of-war-coupons.html Indian Banknote:India: Prisoner-of-War Coupons] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128055915/http://indianbanknote.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/india-prisoner-of-war-coupons.html archive.org] link).
*[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157879132 Photograph of a Group of Italian POWs at the Ramgarh POW camp in northern India 1942]. [http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157879134 Group of Italian POWs about to begin a soccer game at the Ramgarh POW camp in northern India 1942] trove.nla.gov.au
====Japanese internees====
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/08/a-forgotten-story-from-the-second-world-war.html "A forgotten story from the Second World War"] by Hedley Sutton. Untold lives blog, British Library. Japanese internees in the Internment Camp, Deoli (Ajmer). The majority were interned during December 1941 in Singapore and Malaya, although a few were picked up in Burma and in India itself. There is a reference to British Library records IOR/L/PJ/8/405.
==Records==
===British Library===
*For Italian records during WWII, see [[POW Camps in India#Italian prisoners of war|Italian prisoners of war]] above.
*For Japanese internee records from WWII, see [[POW Camps in India#Japanese internees|Japanese internees]] above.
===The National Archives===
