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*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap6b.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw6.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 6]
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap6b.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw6.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 6]
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/curious.html "The Curious Exclusion Of Anglo-Indians From Mass Slaughter During The Partition Of India"]. Experiences in India During 1947 of some who went to New Zealand by Dorothy McMenamin in 'The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 9, Number 1, 2006.
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/curious.html "The Curious Exclusion Of Anglo-Indians From Mass Slaughter During The Partition Of India"]. Experiences in India During 1947 of some who went to New Zealand by Dorothy McMenamin in 'The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 9, Number 1, 2006.
*[http://www.expressandstar.com/latest/2009/03/30/bloody-memories-for-child-of-the-raj/  Bloody memories for child of the Raj] Express and Star dated 30 March 2009.  Also see [[Biographies reading list]] for more details of ''Farewell Raj: Witness to End of Empire'' by Tony Hearne


==Miscellaneous==
==Miscellaneous==

Revision as of 11:03, 23 November 2010

The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website British 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

FIBIS Resources

The Passage to India

The FIBIS Google Books Library
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Overland Route Travel


The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.

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
    • This letter also contains the wording “...while the miseries and dangers to which an unprotected woman is liable in India are such as to make it highly desirable that widows and female orphans should remain as short a time unmarried as possible”. (page 252)
  • Indian Tales by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com

Life in the Bungalows

Historical books online

Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field

Historical Books Online

Railway Life

Death

  • This India List post advises “Personnel of all ranks were usually buried on the spot, with what to some today think of as unseemly haste, but it must be remembered that there was then no refrigeration and the human body does not last long in tropical heat."
  • This India List post and this post and response refer to the preservation of bodies after death at sea.

Indo-British Relations

Departure and Connections

Miscellaneous

See also