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*[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]
*[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]
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255515028 thread] discusses the “overland route” from London to India.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255515028 thread] discusses the “overland route” from London to India.
*India List post transcribing a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-03/1301585129  ''The Times''  Thursday, 29 July, 1858] praising the captain of the Peninsula and Oriental Steamship Candida, travelling from India and China, with signatories, an India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301836311 response] and a further India List transcription of a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301846241 ''The Times'' 5 January 1859] regarding the “evils and annoyances” experienced on the transit through Egypt  to board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam vessel Ceylon,(for travel to India), with signatories
*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.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/08/13.htm "Transport of Troops to India"] by Frederick Engels from the ''New-York Daily Tribune'',  13 August, 1858 states that some troops were sent from England by the overland route from 1857. This route became permanent some years later - [http://books.google.com/books?id=m-yDhirnqWAC&pg=PA226 "The New Overland Troop Service to India"]  ''Colburns’s United Service Magazine 1867 Part 3'', page 226 Google Books
*[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/08/13.htm "Transport of Troops to India"] by Frederick Engels from the ''New-York Daily Tribune'',  13 August, 1858 states that some troops were sent from England by the overland route from 1857. This route became permanent some years later - [http://books.google.com/books?id=m-yDhirnqWAC&pg=PA226 "The New Overland Troop Service to India"]  ''Colburns’s United Service Magazine 1867 Part 3'', page 226 Google Books

Revision as of 02:10, 7 April 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