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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255515028 thread] discusses the “overland route” from London to India.
*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.mta.hu/fileadmin/szekfoglalok/000914.pdf “Three British Travellers to the Middle East and India in the Early Seventeenth Century”] by Clifford Edmund Bosworth (April 2005?) Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It includes details of Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who walked from Aleppo in Syria to India, via Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, arriving at Amjer, Rajasthan in July 1615 after a ten month walk.
*[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
