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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=KmFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals''] by Daniel Johnson 1827 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=KmFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals''] by Daniel Johnson 1827 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MwoFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 ''The Old Forest Ranger, or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and On the Plains''] by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MwoFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 ''The Old Forest Ranger, or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and On the Plains''] by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878


==Indo-British Relations==  
==Indo-British Relations==  

Revision as of 01:55, 23 January 2010

The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website Voices from South Asia which contains material from an exhibition which was held in Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, April 8 to August 6, 1996. The exhibition marked the acquisition by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU of a series of taped interviews with British people who lived and worked in India before Independence in 1947.

Also see Society reading list

The Passage to India

Work

Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2 LSU Interviews, Chapter 2

Marriage

  • This India List thread discusses under age marriage.
  • This India List thread mentions a marriage performed by an Army Adjutant in 1809, with remarriage by a clergyman in 1812. Only the second marriage appears in the records
  • The following letter from Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, written in 1826 to the Archbishop of Canterbury sets out the situation applying to Army soldiers and permission to marry. In Church records of marriages, marriage is by licence or by banns. In India, at least in this period, marriage by banns included marriage under the conditions mentioned by Bishop Heber. From Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825; (With notes upon Ceylon,) an Account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India, Volume 2 Page 251 Google Books

Life in the Bungalows

Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field

Historical Books Online

Indo-British Relations

Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5 LSU Interviews, Chapter 5

Departure and Connections

Miscellaneous