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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intro.htm 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.
 
 
The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013402/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intro.htm British Voices from South Asia], now archived,  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]]
Also see [[Society reading list]]
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The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150104214125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1][https://web.archive.org/web/20150129041135/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw1.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 1], archived.
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw1.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 1]
*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India. [https://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]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140918003016/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, archived. 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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180102060427/http://www.mirror.co.uk:80/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, archived. Witold Glinski's escape to freedom in India.
*[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===
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/communicationwi00gallgoog ''Communication with India, China, &c: Observations on the Proposed Improvements in the Overland Route via Egypt with remarks on the Ship Canal,…''] by John Alexander Galloway 1844 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/communicationwi00gallgoog ''Communication with India, China, &c: Observations on the Proposed Improvements in the Overland Route via Egypt with remarks on the Ship Canal,…''] by John Alexander Galloway 1844 Archive.org
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==Work==
==Work==
* Camping out in the country with the Collector of Kaira (Bombay Presidency) 1875 from [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023218955#page/n43/mode/2up ''Modern India and the Indians : being a series of impressions, notes and essays''],  page 30 by Sir Monier Monier-Williams 1891 Archive.org   
* Camping out in the country with the Collector of Kaira (Bombay Presidency) 1875 from [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023218955#page/n43/mode/2up ''Modern India and the Indians : being a series of impressions, notes and essays''],  page 30 by Sir Monier Monier-Williams 1891 Archive.org   
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw2.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 2]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2][https://web.archive.org/web/20150129032844/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw2.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 2], archived.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-openpage/article2443690.ece "How our British rulers 'legalised' bribery"] The Hindu.com
*[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-openpage/article2443690.ece "How our British rulers 'legalised' bribery"] The Hindu.com
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
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*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/03/our-hero-is-a-sportsman-british-domestic-interiors-in-19th-century-india.html "‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India"]  British Library blog “Untold Lives” 05 March 2014. Includes three images by  William Tayler from his 1842 publication ''Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians'', one of which "The Young Lady's Toilet" is also available in [http://blogs.bl.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef01b8d2ac7fe2970c-pi another BL blog]
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/03/our-hero-is-a-sportsman-british-domestic-interiors-in-19th-century-india.html "‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India"]  British Library blog “Untold Lives” 05 March 2014. Includes three images by  William Tayler from his 1842 publication ''Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians'', one of which "The Young Lady's Toilet" is also available in [http://blogs.bl.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef01b8d2ac7fe2970c-pi another BL blog]
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/a-daughter-of-the-empire "A daughter of the Empire": Edwardian life in India, 1901-03" ] on website of Kings College London,  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.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/a-daughter-of-the-empire "A daughter of the Empire": Edwardian life in India, 1901-03" ] on website of Kings College London,  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/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150127222512/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065332/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3], archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913012017/http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/workfolio/glover.pdf "“A Feeling of Absence from Old England:” the Colonial Bungalow"] by William J Glover ''Home Cultures'' Volume 1 Issue 1 pages 61-82 2004 tcaup.umich.edu, now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913012017/http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/workfolio/glover.pdf "“A Feeling of Absence from Old England:” the Colonial Bungalow"] by William J Glover ''Home Cultures'' Volume 1 Issue 1 pages 61-82 2004 tcaup.umich.edu, now archived.
*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/landourcookbooks.html "The Landour Community Centre Cookbooks: From the 1920s to the 1960s and the present"] by Katharine (Kittu) Parker Riddle. An article dated 1 July 2003
*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/landourcookbooks.html "The Landour Community Centre Cookbooks: From the 1920s to the 1960s and the present"] by Katharine (Kittu) Parker Riddle. An article dated 1 July 2003
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*[[:Category:Sport images| Unique collection of Sport images held on Fibiwiki]]
*[[:Category:Sport images| Unique collection of Sport images held on Fibiwiki]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own3k9BJasg&feature=share Sports in British India] You Tube. Short FIBIS video of photographs of sporting events
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own3k9BJasg&feature=share Sports in British India] You Tube. Short FIBIS video of photographs of sporting events
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap4.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw4.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 4]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140928064952/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap4.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4][https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065337/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw4.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 4], archived.
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996  [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press] online edition.
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996  [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press] online edition.
*‪[http://pakistaniaat.org/index.php/pak/article/download/152/152‪ "British hunters in colonial India, 1900-1947: The Gentleman Hunter, New Technology, and Growing Conservationist Awareness"] by Fiona Natasha Mani ''Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies'' Vol. 4, No. 1 (2012) pages 69-87. Pdf download-depending on your browser, may download to your downloads folder.
*‪[http://pakistaniaat.org/index.php/pak/article/download/152/152‪ "British hunters in colonial India, 1900-1947: The Gentleman Hunter, New Technology, and Growing Conservationist Awareness"] by Fiona Natasha Mani ''Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies'' Vol. 4, No. 1 (2012) pages 69-87. Pdf download-depending on your browser, may download to your downloads folder.
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==Indo-British Relations==  
==Indo-British Relations==  
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap5.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw5.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 5]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140928064955/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap5.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065343/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw5.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 5], archived.


==Departure and Connections==
==Departure and Connections==
*[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]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140927011300/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap6b.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065348/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw6.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 6], archived.
*[http://archive.is/OWYO Lahore: Blood on the Tracks] by William Dalrymple 1997. archive of travelintelligence.com. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120830173245/http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/lahore-blood-tracks Another archived version]). Also an episode in the 1997 TV documentary series [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568 Stones of the Raj]
*[http://archive.is/OWYO Lahore: Blood on the Tracks] by William Dalrymple 1997. archive of travelintelligence.com. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120830173245/http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/lahore-blood-tracks Another archived version]). Also an episode in the 1997 TV documentary series [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568 Stones of the Raj]
*[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.
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==Miscellaneous==
==Miscellaneous==
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/identi~1.html "Identifying Domiciled Europeans in Colonial India: Poor Whites or Privileged Community?"] by Dorothy McMenamin ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 1, 2001.  Details four formal oral histories which are lodged at University of Canterbury [N.Z.] Library.
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/identi~1.html "Identifying Domiciled Europeans in Colonial India: Poor Whites or Privileged Community?"] by Dorothy McMenamin ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 1, 2001.  Details four formal oral histories which are lodged at University of Canterbury [N.Z.] Library.
*The [[University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies]] has an online collection of oral histories and home videos.   
*The [[University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies]] has an online collection of oral histories and home videos.   

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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website British Voices from South Asia, now archived, 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

7 Digitised volumes Volume 1 is for 1858, Volume 7 is for 1869. University of Oxford, England Digital collection.
Bradshaw's Railway Guides were very well known in the UK and were used by Michael Portillo in his Great Railway Journeys television series.

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

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)
  • "Judith Weston and her search for a husband" in 1727-1728. 19 June 2017 British Library’s Untold lives blog.
  • 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

4th edition 1856 by Dr H H Goodeve First published 1844. 7th edition 1879 Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment. Became Birch’s 1st edition. 2nd edition 1886, 3rd edition 1895, 5th edition 1913 Updated by C R M Green and V B Green-Armytage. All Archive.org. 1929 edition by V. B.Green-Armytage and E.H.Vere Hodge, 8th edition 1933, Archive.org version by E. H. Vere Hodge 1933, 9th edition 1933. Archive.org version. Latter three, pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.

Life in the Bungalows

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.
  • "Memories of my childhood in British India" by Pearline Philomena Berry FIBIS Journal Number 34 (Autumn 2015). page 49. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals.
  • "An English Bride in Edwardian India" by Christine Kendell FIBIS Journal Number 35 (Spring 2016), pages 3-5. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals.

Historical books online

Tropical Trials. A Hand-book for Women in the Tropics by Major S Leigh Hunt Madras Army and Alexander S Kenny. 1883 Archive.org.
Tweed's Cow-keeping In India 5th edition, revised by S N Sinha, 1931 Archive.org.
Mrs. Temple-Wright's Flowers and Gardens in India. With a Hindustant Vocabulary of Gardening and Botanical Terms 7th edition revised and edited by W Burns. 1922. Archive.org

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
"This Bloody Line" A film by Ram Madhvani. Cyril Radcliffe was the British lawyer tasked with deciding on the dividing line at Partition. YouTube video.

Historical books online

Miscellaneous

Access the Oral History Collection. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.
Access the Home video Collection. Approximately 50 individual collections totalling in the region of 80 hours of footage, taken between 1911 and 1956, with probably most from the 1930s.

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