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*[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 a collection of oral histories and home videos, as detailed in this [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6947170.ece Times On Line] article | *The [[University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies]] has a collection of oral histories and home videos, as detailed in this [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6947170.ece Times On Line] article | ||
*This link from [http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Reminiscences-of-the-Raj/549103 Indian Express ] , describes the book ''Mehtars and Marigolds'' by Barbara Dinner 2009 , available from [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Mehtars+and+Marigolds&x=14&y=23 Amazon.co.uk]. This [http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/entertainment/Bath-India-8211/article-1540735-detail/article.html link] also discusses the book. | *This link from [http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Reminiscences-of-the-Raj/549103 Indian Express ] , describes the book ''Mehtars and Marigolds'' by Barbara Dinner 2009 , about four generations of her family from 1874, starting in Simla, available from [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Mehtars+and+Marigolds&x=14&y=23 Amazon.co.uk]. This [http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/entertainment/Bath-India-8211/article-1540735-detail/article.html link] also discusses the book. | ||
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Revision as of 09:08, 10 December 2009
The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website 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
The Passage to India
- Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1 LSU Interviews, Chapter 1
- This India List thread discusses the “overland route” from London to India.
- The FIBIS Google Books Library has books in the category "overland route"
Work
Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2 LSU Interviews, Chapter 2
Life in the Bungalows
- India Album Kings College, London . "'A daughter of the Empire': Edwardian life in India, 1901-03", 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
- Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3 LSU Interviews, Chapter 3
Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field
- Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4 LSU Interviews, Chapter 4
- The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj by Dane Kennedy, 1996 University of California Press online edition.
- The FIBIS Google Books Library has books in the category "hunting"
Indo-British Relations
Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5 LSU Interviews, Chapter 5
Departure and Connections
- Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6 LSU Interviews, Chapter 6
- "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. The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 9, Number 1, 2006
Miscellaneous
- 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 a collection of oral histories and home videos, as detailed in this Times On Line article
- This link from Indian Express , describes the book Mehtars and Marigolds by Barbara Dinner 2009 , about four generations of her family from 1874, starting in Simla, available from Amazon.co.uk. This link also discusses the book.