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*[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://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2009/03/ “Back in Bombay”] British attitude to the marriage of a British woman to an Indian, and [http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/the-wedding/ “The Wedding], a Moslem marriage ceremony in November, probably 1936, but possibly 1937 (conflicting dates). “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)”. He was an Indian engineer born 1912, who studied in London where he met his Scottish future wife, Mona Knight. (Archive.org links [https://web.archive.org/web/20131129042732/http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2009/03/ 1] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120729044008/http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/the-wedding 2]}
*[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://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. "Memories of Murree" also by Walter Reeve. Details of a visit to Murree in 1936 from the author’s father’s memoirs, and the author’s memory of visits in 1948 and 1949. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125548/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-06-11-2005/foo.htm Part 1], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125717/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-13-11-2005/foo.htm Part 2], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306062112/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-20-11-2005/foo.htm Part 3] Scroll down. jang.com.pk 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.
*[http://janetmacleodtrotter.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/a-baby-in-india/ Photograph of “My mother being carried through foothills of Himalayas”] from photographs of Janet MacLeod Trotter [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117025917/http://janetmacleodtrotter.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/mum-being-carried-through-foothills-of-himalayas-copy.jpg Enlarged version] (archived)
==Life in the Bungalows==
[[Image:An Indian Bungalow.JPG|thumb|right|350px|An Indian Bungalow]]
