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*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw1.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 1]
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255515028 thread] discusses the “overland route” from London to India.
*India List post transcribing a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-03/1301585129 ''The Times'' Thursday, 29 July, 1858] praising the captain of the Peninsula and Oriental Steamship Candida, travelling from India and China, with signatories, an India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301836311 response] and a further India List transcription of a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301846241 ''The Times'' 5 January 1859] regarding the “evils and annoyances” experienced on the transit through Egypt to board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam vessel Ceylon,(for travel to India), with signatories
*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
