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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
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofindiag00stoc ''The hand-book of India, a guide to the stranger and the traveller, and a companion to the resident''] by J.H. Stocqueler 1844 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Q4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA12-IA5 ''The Anglo-Indian passage, homeward and outward, or, A card for the overland traveller from Southhampton to Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta : with letters descriptive of the homeward passage''] by  David Lester Richardson 1845 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Q4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA12-IA5 ''The Anglo-Indian passage, homeward and outward, or, A card for the overland traveller from Southhampton to Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta : with letters descriptive of the homeward passage''] by  David Lester Richardson 1845 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India''] 1850 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents].  Includes vocabulary, weights and measures etc  
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India''] 1850 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents].  Includes vocabulary, weights and measures etc  
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**[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. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c049725688?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Tenth Edition (reprinted) 1920] (originally published 1918) Hathi Trust.
**[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. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c049725688?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Tenth Edition (reprinted) 1920] (originally published 1918) Hathi Trust.
**Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India: [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/529359 1919] [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/236120  Fifteenth Edition 1938] [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/462541 17th Edition.]
**Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India: [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/529359 1919] [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/236120  Fifteenth Edition 1938] [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/462541 17th Edition.]
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofindiag00stoc ''The hand-book of India, a guide to the stranger and the traveller, and a companion to the resident''] by J.H. Stocqueler 1844 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/b24757986#page/600/mode/2up/ “Wintering in India”] page 600 ''Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians'' by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball, Fifth edition 1904 Archive.org. Also contains ''Volume II, North Africa and Mediterranean Islands'' from p 331.
*[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa Bygone days in India] by Douglas Dewar 1922. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa Bygone days in India] by Douglas Dewar 1922. Archive.org



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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

Work

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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.

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Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field

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Railway Life

Indo-British Relations

Departure and Connections

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

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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