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*''The East India Vade-Mecum or Complete Guide To Gentlemen Intended for The Civil, Military or Naval Service of The Hon. East India Company'' by Captain Thomas Williamson 1810 Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=c_tAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 1]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hftAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ri0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The General East India Guide And Vade Mecum: For The Public Functionary, Government Officer, Private Agent, Trader Or Foreign Sojourner, In British India, And The Adjacent Parts Of Asia Immediately Connected With The Honourable The East India Company . Being a Digest of the Work of the late Capt. Williamson, with many Improvements and Additions''] by John Borthwick Gilchrist 1825 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India''] 1850 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents]. Includes vocabulary, weights and measures etc
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part II Bombay''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*Article [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169532/Husband-hunters-Raj-How-fishing-fleet-1920s-society-girls-drawn-sexual-intrigues-India-steamier-climate.html "Husband hunters of the Raj: How a 'fishing fleet' of 1920s society girls were drawn into sexual intrigues in India even steamier than the climate"] by Annabel Venning dated 6 July 2012 MailOnline
*[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/husband-hunting-in-the-raj/4164578 Husband-hunting in the Raj] Download a radio interview with Anne de Courcy, journalist and author by presenter Phillip Adams, broadcast Tuesday 31 July 2012 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpSIF9J3SR0&sns=gp Husband-Hunting in the Raj] YouTube video (interview). Anne de Courcy's account of the Fishing Fleet that sent girls to the Raj to hook husbands. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lc6gb BBC Radio Asian Network] interview by Nihal broadcast 1 August 2012
*[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://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/home.html The Army Children Archive (TACA)] contains information about British Army children and wives, with themes such as [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/accomm.html Accomodation] and [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/move.html On the Move]. There are references to India in a number of the themes.
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/02/family-budgets-in-1920s-india.html Family budgets in 1920s India] by John O’Brien 27 February 2012 British Library Blog: Untold Lives: Sharing stories from the past
*[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/lF0dzzkkqGbwlAN5cTGR8M/Quick-Lit--Post-facto.html The Dak Bungalow] 19 October 2012 livemint.com
*[http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/onmyplate/entry/little-luxuries-splendour-in-the-grass "Little Luxuries: Splendour in the grass"] by Vikram Doctor May 24, 2013 The Times of India: The Economic Times. [http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=ETNEW&BaseHref=ETM%2F2013%2F05%2F24&PageLabel=28&EntityId=Ar02801&ViewMode=HTML Alternative version with a photograph] "...a system of cooling that used the roots of a type of jungle grass called khus-khus that, she noted was "collected on account of their aromatic smell, to form thatch tatties, or screens for the doors and windows.""
 
===FIBIS resources===
*"A Parsonage in Madras - Elizabeth Sharp’s letters" by Diana Bousfield Wells ''FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)'' pages 38-48. She married Thomas Smith at the end of 1883. The letters from Madras were written in 1884 until she died in December 1884 following childbirth. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
 
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VNFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The European in India: From a Collection of Drawings''] by Charles Doyley with descriptions by Captain Thomas Williamson 1813 Google Books. Contains many coloured plates such as [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VNFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR16-IA3#v=onepage&q&f=false "Plate XVII An European Lady and her family, attended by an ayah, or nurse"]. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VNFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 List of the coloured plates]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India''] by George Francklin Atkinson. Third edition (1860?) First published 1858. Archive.org. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, in the Umballa Division
*"Anglo Indian Society", ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal'' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwccAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA232 Part 1] page 232 of ''1860 Part 3'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h9cRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221 Part 2], page 221 of ''1861 Part 2''
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=uEUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book: comprising numerous directions for plain wholesome cookery, both Oriental and English, with much miscellaneous matter, answering all general purposes of reference connected with household affairs likely to be immediately required by families, messes, and private individuals, residing at the presidencies or out-stations''] by R. Riddell 5th edition 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Englishwoman in India: Information for Ladies on their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping .... and Receipts for Indian Cookery''] by "a Lady Resident" 1864 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113 Indian Cookery page 113]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/behindbungalow00aitkiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Behind the Bungalow''] by EHA [Edward Hamilton Aitken] 10th edition 1911. First published 1889. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/flowersandgarden031469mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Flowers And Gardens In India: A Manual for Beginners''] by Mrs R Temple Wright 1902 Archive.org
*''Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America'' by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth03bakegoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume I] [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth00unkngoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume II]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878.
*[http://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the [[Forestry|Indian Forest Service]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/soneporereminisc00abborich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Sonepore reminiscences. Years 1840-96''] by Harry E Abbott 1896. Archive.org Horse racing at Sonepore (a native state, South-West Frontier of Bengal, now Orissa state)
*[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.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/of-the-railways-and-the-lives-inextricably-linked-to-it/article5211159.ece "Of the Railways and the lives inextricably linked to it"] October 8, 2013 ''The Hindu Chennai'' (Madras). Anglo Indian railway memories
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