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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
*British women married to Indian men. :It is interesting to note that two of the following three couples met in Britain when the future husband was studying.:*[http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/104/ Mabel Henderson and her husband Dr. Bharat Chandra Ghosh, Indian Medical Service] who were married in Scotland in 1905, including a photograph dated 1928. indianmemoryproject.com:*[http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/20/ Photograph: Shanta Bhandarkar as a baby with her English Mother Louisa Bishop, and father Dr. Vasudev Sukhtankar Bombay 1910] indianmemoryproject.com:*[http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2009/03/ “Back in Bombay”] British attitude to the marriage of a British woman to an Indianman, 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/20090513043218/http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/back-in-bombay/ 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.
