Category:Recommended reading

The following reading lists are recommended material for family historians interested in Europeans in India, Burma and Asian territories up to 1947.

The titles listed in this bibliography range from books to direct research efforts, directories on CD which may show where an ancestor was living in a particular year, to a wealth of background reading which will aid understanding of an ancestor's life and work in India and South Asia.

Arrangement of the reading lists

Items are grouped by broad subject categories. Each entry has a short annotation. Titles which were reviewed in older issues of The Journal of the Families in British India Society will have a link to the full review in the Members Only Section. Find additional reviews in The FIBIS Bookshop.

Obtaining titles from the reading lists

It is possible that various titles may be available in more than one edition or format, and for this reason ISBNs are not listed.

Most items can be purchased through the The FIBIS Bookshop. Rare and out-of-print titles may be sought through AbeBooks, which provides a meta-search of antiquarian and second-hand bookshops around the world.

Many of the titles may be available at a local public library. If not in stock, the library may offer an inter-library loan service. WorldCat may help in identifying the closest holding library (NB it is not necessary to register to use WorldCat's search facility). People based in Australia may prefer to use Libraries Australia

A few very old titles may be digitized and thus downloadable from sites such as GoogleBooks.