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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116110725/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letter-massacres-at-the-partition-of-india-1246366.html Letter: Massacres at the partition of India] by F B Manley Wednesday, 20 August 1997 independent.co.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116111055/http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=1672 Maxine Steller’s Bombay]. Born in 1930, daughter of Bill Taylor who was in the Bombay Police Force, they lived in quarters behind the various police stations he was assigned to. She describes her early life, including becoming the female singer in a band, and the conditions before and after independence, until she left in 1950 for Australia. tajmahalfoxtrot.com
*[http://www.mid-day.com/photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, 1947, soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the S.S. Georgic bound for Britain] on the quayside in Mumbai, the first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence. mid-day.com. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxckDsWPko Video: British Troops Leave India 1947] British Pathe on YouTube . This video appears to be of the same troops as in the photograph although they are unnamed. They are however sailing on the 'Georgic'
:[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19470818&id=a2hAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j5QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,6345664 "British Troops Leave"] The Glasgow Herald August 18, 1947 Google News
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130721143247/http://britains-smallwars.com/India/last.html Sunset on the Raj: The Last to Leave] The last British troops to leave India were the [[13th Regiment of Foot|1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry]] on 28 February 1948 at Bombay. britains-smallwars.com
