Life in India

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.

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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"
• The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India MichelHoude.com

Work

Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2 LSU Interviews, Chapter 2

Marriage

Ihis India List thread discusses under age marriage.

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 in '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. Access the Oral History Collection. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.
• This Indian Express article 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.