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*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'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwRFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA251 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)
*[http://www.royalengineers.ca/femnkid.html On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army], a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.
*[http://anglo-indianfood.blogspot.com/2009/04/tracking-down-traditional-scottish-food.html Anglo-Indian Food] from Anglo-IndianFood.blogspot.com
*[http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/workfolio/glover.pdf "“A Feeling of Absence from Old England:” the Colonial Bungalow"] by William J Glover Home Cultures Volume 1 Issue 1 pages 61-82 2004(?)
*[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/4/book-review-the-complete-indian-housekeeper-and-co/ Review] of the book ''The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook'', a reprint of the 1898 edition,(first published 1888) Washington Times Friday, 4 June 2010 ; [http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/camp-life Extract about camp life]; India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2003-05/1052128663 thread] about the 1904 edition. This book is available through Amazon,co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/019955014X FIBIS Shop]
*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/landourcookbooks.html "The Landour Community Centre Cookbooks: From the 1920s to the 1960s and the present"] by Katharine (Kittu) Parker Riddle. An article dated 1 July 2003
*[http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Ajmer_1933_1940(1).htm Ajmer 1933-40] Life in a railway colony from [http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] by Eugene Blanchette born 1933, from his website.
*[http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/category/grandpas-story Grandpa’s Story]. Percy Morris joined the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]] (MSM) as an Assistant Locomotive Superintendent in 1925. He became Chief Mechanical Engineer, and later Director of the Railway Board, until he retired in 1955. Blog by his granddaughter of 1986 interviews in 15 parts. Scroll to the bottom for part 1 Indian service commences part 2.
==Death==
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-11/1226939768 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 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-11/1227000024 post] and this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-07/1279549350 post] and [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-07/1279611978 response] refer to the preservation of bodies after death at sea.
==Indo-British Relations==
