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*''The East India Vade-Mecum or Complete Guide To Gentlemen Intended for The Civil, Military or Naval Service of The Hon. East India Company'' by Captain Thomas Williamson 1810 Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=c_tAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 1]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hftAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2]
*''The East India Vade-Mecum or Complete Guide To Gentlemen Intended for The Civil, Military or Naval Service of The Hon. East India Company'' by Captain Thomas Williamson 1810 Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=c_tAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 1]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hftAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ri0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The General East India Guide And Vade Mecum: For The Public Functionary, Government Officer, Private Agent, Trader Or Foreign Sojourner, In British India, And The Adjacent Parts Of Asia Immediately Connected With The Honourable The East India Company . Being a Digest of the Work of the late Capt. Williamson, with many Improvements and Additions''] by John Borthwick Gilchrist 1825 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ri0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The General East India Guide And Vade Mecum: For The Public Functionary, Government Officer, Private Agent, Trader Or Foreign Sojourner, In British India, And The Adjacent Parts Of Asia Immediately Connected With The Honourable The East India Company . Being a Digest of the Work of the late Capt. Williamson, with many Improvements and Additions''] by John Borthwick Gilchrist 1825 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
   
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part II Bombay''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=1HwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bengal Presidency, and Western Provinces of India''] 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=N30DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/details/handbookbengalp00eastgoog ''Handbook of the Bengal Presidency with an account of Calcutta City''] by Edward E Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookmadrasp00firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Madras Presidency''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, (almost entirely rewritten) 1879 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookbombayp00eastgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Bombay Presidency with an account of Bombay City''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, ("for the most part rewritten") 1881 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookpanjbwe01eastgoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Handbook of the Panjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper Sindh'']  by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1883 Archive.org
*''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published  by John Murray, London
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra05murrgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Third Edition 1898], [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra52firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Fourth Edition 1901], [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra30firgoog#page/n7/mode/2up Fourth Edition, Second Impression 1903], [http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n5/mode/2up Eighth Edition 1911] Archive.org.
**The Fifteenth Edition 1938 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
 
==The Passage to India ==
==The Passage to India ==
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Revision as of 07:10, 1 October 2011

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

Guides

The Passage to India

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
Overland Route Travel


Also see Maritime Service for descriptions of some sea voyages to India.

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

Work

Marriage and children

  • 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
  • Peshawar Remembered by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army. The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition

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