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==The Passage to India ==
==The Passage to India ==
{{Library|link1=[http://www.google.com/books?uid=4345922024743697884&as_coll=1059&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list |tag1=Overland Route] |link2= [http://www.google.com/books?uid=4345922024743697884&as_coll=1048&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list |tag2=Travel] |link3=  |tag3= }}
{{Library|link1=[http://www.google.com/books?uid=4345922024743697884&as_coll=1059&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list |tag1=Overland Route] |link2= [http://www.google.com/books?uid=4345922024743697884&as_coll=1048&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list |tag2=Travel] |link3=  |tag3= }}
Also see [[Maritime Service]] for descriptions of some sea voyages to India.


The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
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*[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
*[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
*[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
*[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
*[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).  [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomaug05.html Book of the Month] by Kings College London Library
*[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]
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*[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.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomaug05.html Book of the Month] by Kings College London Library


==Work==
==Work==

Revision as of 10:17, 21 January 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

  • 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

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