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*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India [http://michelhoude.com/Waghorm/ImagesLTW/@WArticle.htm MichelHoude.com]
*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India [http://michelhoude.com/Waghorm/ImagesLTW/@WArticle.htm MichelHoude.com]
*[http://www.mta.hu/fileadmin/szekfoglalok/000914.pdf “Three British Travellers to the Middle East and India in the Early Seventeenth Century”] by Clifford Edmund Bosworth (April 2005?) Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It includes details of Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who walked from Aleppo in Syria to India, via Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, arriving at Amjer, Rajasthan in July 1615 after a ten month walk.
*[http://www.mta.hu/fileadmin/szekfoglalok/000914.pdf “Three British Travellers to the Middle East and India in the Early Seventeenth Century”] by Clifford Edmund Bosworth (April 2005?) Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It includes details of Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who walked from Aleppo in Syria to India, via Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, arriving at Amjer, Rajasthan in July 1615 after a ten month walk.
*[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-the-greatest-escape---war-394421  The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4,000 miles from Siberian death camp] 16 May 2009 mirror.co.uk. Witold Glinski's escape to freedom in India
===Historical books online===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163143/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert.htm “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert"] by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163143/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert.htm “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert"] by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163310/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert2.htm “Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748”] by Gaylard Roberts from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163310/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert2.htm “Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748”] by Gaylard Roberts from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
:Sample pages from [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QcpZz402GcwC&pg=PR7 ''The Desert Route to India''] edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Google Books
:Sample pages from [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QcpZz402GcwC&pg=PR7 ''The Desert Route to India''] edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HMMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''‪Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from Thence by Bagdad and Directly Across the Great Desert to Bassora : With Occasional Remarks on the Adjacent Countries, an Account of the Different Stages, and Sketches of the Several Routes on Four Copper Plates''‬] by James Capper .Third edition with Alterations and Additions 1785 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HMMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''‪Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from Thence by Bagdad and Directly Across the Great Desert to Bassora : With Occasional Remarks on the Adjacent Countries, an Account of the Different Stages, and Sketches of the Several Routes on Four Copper Plates''‬] by James Capper. Third edition with Alterations and Additions 1785 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books.  
*[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-the-greatest-escape---war-394421  The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4,000 miles from Siberian death camp] 16 May 2009 mirror.co.uk. Witold Glinski's escape to freedom in India
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/524860 ''British Routes to India''] by Halford Lancaster Hoskins 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India


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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.

Historical books online

“Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748” by Gaylard Roberts from The Desert Route to India by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
Sample pages from The Desert Route to India edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Google Books

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Historical books online

Marriage and children

  • 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)
  • Article "The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj" by Frances Wilson 30 July 2012 The Telegraph
  • Article "Husband hunters of the Raj: How a 'fishing fleet' of 1920s society girls were drawn into sexual intrigues in India even steamier than the climate" by Annabel Venning dated 6 July 2012 MailOnline
  • Husband-hunting in the Raj Download a radio interview with Anne de Courcy, journalist and author by presenter Phillip Adams, broadcast Tuesday 31 July 2012 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
  • Interview: The Fishing Fleet. Anne de Courcy Anne de Courcy paints a fascinating portrait of 'husband-hunting in the Raj the subject of her new book. (host Paul French) Adelaide Week, March 2013 YouTube
  • British women married to Indian men.
It is interesting to note that two of the following three couples met in Britain when the future husband was studying.
  • On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army, a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.
  • The Army Children Archive (TACA) contains information about British Army children and wives, with themes such as Accomodation and On the Move. There are references to India in a number of the themes.
  • "Childhood Memories of India" by John Goddard, KRRC. KRRC Association. The author was born in 1923 and lived most of the time until 1933 in India, in cantonments in Lucknow and Calcutta. His father was officers’ mess sergeant in a battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (the 60th Rifles).
  • Peshawar Remembered by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. khyberlodge.co.uk. Another version www.pakhtun.com, and another version (archived). The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. "Memories of Murree" also by Walter Reeve. Details of a visit to Murree in 1936 from the author’s father’s memoirs, and the author’s memory of visits in 1948 and 1949. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Scroll down. Jang Newspapers 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.
  • 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

Historical books online

Life in the Bungalows

See also Food and Drink

FIBIS resources

  • "A Parsonage in Madras - Elizabeth Sharp’s letters" by Diana Bousfield-Wells FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013) pages 38-48. She married Thomas Smith at the end of 1883. The letters from Madras were written in 1884 until she died in December 1884 following childbirth. See FIBIS Journals for details of how to access this article
  • "Calvert Smith, the baby from the Parsonage" by Diana Bousfield-Wells FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013) pages 33 -42 . Continuing the previous article. Letters by the Rev Thomas Smith until his death in early 1888, regarding the care of his young son.

Historical books online

Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field

Historical Books Online

Railway Life

Indo-British Relations

Departure and Connections

"British Troops Leave" The Glasgow Herald August 18, 1947 Google News

Historical books online

Miscellaneous

Also see

Recommended Reading

  • This Indian Express article describes the book Mehtars and Marigolds by Barbara Dinner 2009, about four generations of her family from 1874, starting in Simla. This link also discusses the book which has been favourably reviewed in FIBIS Journal no 25 (Spring 2011).

References