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*[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/history/archives/india India Album] Kings College, London . "'A daughter of the Empire': Edwardian life in India, 1901-03", looks at the life of Beryl White, a member of the British ruling class. Her father, John Claude White, was the first British Political Officer in Sikkim, refer [[Photographer#Books|Photographer - Books]]  
*[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/history/archives/india India Album] Kings College, London . "'A daughter of the Empire': Edwardian life in India, 1901-03", looks at the life of Beryl White, a member of the British ruling class. Her father, John Claude White, was the first British Political Officer in Sikkim, refer [[Photographer#Books|Photographer - Books]]  
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/chap3.htm Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3]
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/chap3.htm Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/behindbungalow00aitkiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Behind the Bungalow''] by EHA [Edward Hamilton Aitken]  10th edition 1911. First published 1889. Archive.org
*[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 [http://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
*[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 [http://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



Revision as of 12:24, 26 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.

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The Passage to India

Work

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

Departure and Connections

Miscellaneous