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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013402/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intro.htm British Voices from South Asia], now archived, which contains material from an exhibition which was held in Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, April 8 to August 6, 1996. The exhibition marked the acquisition by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU of a series of taped interviews with British people who lived and worked in India before Independence in 1947.
==Guides==
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UJFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP19 ''Necessaries for a Writer to India, sold by Welch and Stalker…London''] c 1799. A Broadsheet (one page). Google Books
*''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
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180102060427/http://www.mirror.co.uk:80/news/uk-news/exclusive-the-greatest-escape---war-394421 "The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4,000 miles from Siberian death camp"] 16 May 2009 mirror.co.uk, archived. Witold Glinski's escape to freedom in India. [https://www.explorersweb.com/trek/news.php?id=19856 Gliniecki: "I have solid evidence Glinski didn't do The Long Walk"] Jan 04, 2011 ExplorersWeb. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10158049/Witold-Glinski.html Obituary: Witold Glinski] 03 Jul 2013 ''The Telegraph''.
===Historical books online===
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005BF3E#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=8&xywh=-1%2C-915%2C4269%2C4208 ''The Overland Traveller, or Guide to persons proceeding to Europe via the Red Sea, from India''] [With maps.] by John Blackburn 1838. British Library Digital.
*[https://archive.org/details/communicationwi00gallgoog ''Communication with India, China, &c: Observations on the Proposed Improvements in the Overland Route via Egypt with remarks on the Ship Canal,…''] by John Alexander Galloway 1844 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Q4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA12-IA5 ''The Anglo-Indian passage, homeward and outward, or, A card for the overland traveller from Southhampton to Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta : with letters descriptive of the homeward passage''] by David Lester Richardson 1845 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DEUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 ''‪Messrs. Waghorn & Co.'s Overland Guide to India: by three routes to Egypt''] 2nd edition 1846 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/overlandguideboo00barbrich ''The Overland Guide-book; a complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India via Egypt''] by Captain James Barber HCS 2nd edition 1850. Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000051D14 ''Grindlay and Co.'s Overland Circular. Hints for travellers to India, detailing the several routes''] 1854 British Library Digital.
*''Orient Line Guide'' by W J Loftie [https://archive.org/details/orientlineguide00unkngoog 3rd edition 1888] Archive.org [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000560B2# 5th edition 1894] British Library Digital Collection. Covers the voyage to Ceylon, including Suez, (then on to Australia). This route did not call in at Indian ports.
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiaburmaceylon00thom/page/n4 ''India, Burma, and Ceylon. Information for travellers and residents''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 1912 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishroutestoi01hosk ''British Routes to India''] by Halford Lancaster Hoskins 1928. Archive.org.
*For travel accounts of the Overland Route, see [[Travel accounts online]]
** 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://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/06/judith-weston-and-her-search-for-a-husband.html "Judith Weston and her search for a husband"] in 1727-1728. 19 June 2017 British Library’s Untold lives blog.
*Article [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9429264/The-Fishing-Fleet-Husband-Hunting-in-the-Raj-by-Anne-de-Courcy-review.html "The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj"] by Frances Wilson 30 July 2012 ''The Telegraph''.*: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 . Listen to, or 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=h3YVPArbsBs Interview: The Fishing Fleet. Anne de Courcy] Anne de Courcy paints a fascinating portrait of 'husband-hunting in the Raj the subject of her new book. (host Paul French) Adelaide Week, March 2013 YouTube.:Anne de Courcy's book is available online, see below.*[https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/07/finding-mermanjan-the-star-of-the-evening-part-1.html "Finding Mermanjan – the star of the evening"] Four blogs (linked from the first) by Felicia Line from the British Library’s Untold lives blog, 2 July 2019-22 July 2019. Mermanjan was the only daughter of an Afghan noble, niece of the Amir of Afghanistan Dost Mohammed, who married Thomas Maughan of the Bombay Army. They first met in 1849. Her story was told in the book ''Mermanjan, Star of the Evening'' by Gertrude Dimmock published 1970.
*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.:*Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali was English lady of high social rank, who married in England c 1816. See Historical books online.
:*[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
:*Scottish Mona Knight met her future husband an Indian engineer born 1912, while he was studying in London. They travelled back to Bombay in June 1937, (or possibly 1936 per other posts) where she was told it was not done to marry an Indian.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090513043218/http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/back-in-bombay “Back in Bombay”] “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)”</ref> However the marriage took place in a Moslem marriage ceremony.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120729044008/http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/the-wedding “The Wedding] “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)”</ref>
*[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.krrcassociation.com/index.php/association/20-swift-bold-stories/139-goddard-childhood-memories-of-india "Childhood Memories of India"] by John Goddard, KRRC. KRRC Association. The author was born in 1923 and lived most of the time until 1933 in India, in cantonments in Lucknow and Calcutta. His father was officers’ mess sergeant in a battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (the 60th Rifles).
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150609081320/http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43 Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. khyberlodge.co.uk, now archived. [http://www.pakhtun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=36%3Ahistory&id=88%3Apeshawar-remembered-walter-reeve&Itemid=90 Another version] www.pakhtun.com, and [http://web.archive.org/web/20090829075530/http://geocities.com/scn_pk/peshawar_remembered.html another version] (archived). 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 Newspapers 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180417051903/http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com, now archived.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108461/page/n7 ''Observations on the Mussulmauns of India : descriptive of their manners, customs, habits and religious opinion made during a twelve years' residence in the immediate society''] by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali. Edited with notes and an introduction by W. Crooke 1917. The author's background is unclear, other than that she was an English lady of high social rank, who married in England c 1816, see the [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108461/page/n11 Introduction]. Page ix. Originally published 1832. [https://archive.org/details/observationsonm02aligoog/page/n3 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/observationsonm01aligoog/page/n4 Volume II]. Archive.org.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Yjk9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA12 "Anglo Indian Life: Marriages, Elopements and Disappointments"], page 12 ‪''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies''‬, Volume 29 1839
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48159/page/n417 "Michael Madhu Sudan Dutt and his Anglo Indian Wives"] by H W B Moreno, page 191 ''Bengal, Past and Present, Vol.26 July-Dec 1923''. The groom was the Bengali epic poet. Anglo Indian in this context means European. The first marriage was c 1848.
*[https://archive.org/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/n37/mode/1up The author’s English maid receives many marriage proposals. The photograph system] pages 15-16 ''In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains'' by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming, with Illustrations 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in ''From the Hebrides to the Himalayas''.
*[https://archive.org/details/39002011128791.med.yale.edu ''A Domestic Guide to Mothers in India, containing particular instructions on the management of themselves and their children''] by a Medical Practitioner of Several Years Experience in India. Printed in Bombay 1836. Archive.org.
*''Hints for the general management of children in India, in the absence of professional advice''. Title and authors subsequently varied over time: ''Goodeve's hints for the general management of children in India'' 7th edition 1879 Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment; ''The management and medical treatment of children in India''; ''Birch's Management And Medical Treatment Of Children In India''; ''Birch's Management And Medical Treatment Of Children In India And The Tropics''.
:[https://archive.org/details/b2870888x 4th edition 1856 by Dr H H Goodeve] First published 1844. [https://archive.org/details/b21498039 7th edition 1879] Entirely rewritten by Edward A Birch, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Establishment. Became Birch’s 1st edition. [https://archive.org/details/b28710344 2nd edition 1886], [https://archive.org/details/b21500241 3rd edition 1895], [https://archive.org/details/managementmedica00bircrich 5th edition 1913] Updated by C R M Green and V B Green-Armytage. All Archive.org. [httphttps://www.newarchive.org/details/dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/12214 7th edition 1929 edition] by V. B.Green-Armytage and E.H.Vere Hodge, Archive.org mirror from Digital Library of India; [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/547297 8th edition 1933Archive.org version]by E. H. Vere Hodge, mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547297 31264 9th edition 1933 Archive.org version] by E, mirror from Digital Library of India. H. Vere Hodge 1933, *[httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/englishwomaninin0000tytl/page/n5 ''An Englishwoman in India : the memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858''] by Harriet Tytler. Edited by Anthony Sattin.new1986.dliArchive.ernetorg Lending Library.Harriet Earle was born into an army family in India Includes her memories of childhood inIndia and England before the Mutiny. At the age of nineteen she married Captain Robert Tytler. She later was the only woman present at the siege of Delhi, part of the [[Indian Mutiny]], in 1857.*[https://handlearchive.org/2015details/31264 9th edition 1933twounderindians000godd ''Two Under the Indian Sun'']by Jon and Rumer Godden 1966. [https://archive.org/details/intwounderindiansu00godd 2nd file] Both files Archive.ernetorg Lending Library.dliThe sisters were born 1906 and 1907.2015For an autobiography of Rumer Godden's later life, see next section.31264 *See [[M M Kaye]] for the autobiographies, published 1990-2000, of M M Kaye, born 1908, author of the best selling novels ''The Far Pavilions'' and ''Shadow of the Moon''. *[https://archive.org/details/outofindiarajchi00foss ''Out of India : a Raj Childhood''] by Michael Foss 2001. Archive.org versionLending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/childrenofraj00bren ''Children of the Raj'']by Vyvyen Brendon 2005. Latter three Archive.org Lending Library. :Article [https://web.archive.org/web/20160804010001/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/apac/saalg/issue3.pdf "Children of the Raj"] by Vyvyen Brendon (2006) from a SAALG Newsletter, pdf downloadsBritish Library archived webpage. How the book came to be written.*[https://archive.org/details/fishingfleethusb0000deco ''The Fishing Fleet : Husband-Hunting in the Raj''] by Anne De Courcy 2013 Large Print edition, Digital first published 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library of India.
==Life in the Bungalows==
*[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://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
*[httphttps://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/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''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150301022453/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] (now archived) "...a system of cooling that used the roots of a type of jungle grass called khus-khus that ... was "collected on account of their aromatic smell, to form thatch tatties, or screens for the doors and windows.""*[httphttps://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080817/spectrum/main1.htm "Beating the heat: Cooling tales from the Raj"] by Pran Nevile August 17, 2008 ''Spectrum: The Tribune''*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160611183423/http://budapesttimes.hu/2014/09/10/finding-a-punkah-wallah-and-other-essential-raj-tips/ "Finding a punkah-wallah, and other essential Raj tips"] Flora Steel and Grace Gardiner wrote a book in the 1880s “The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook” 10 September 2014 ''The Budapest Times''. Retrieved 17 September 2014, now an archived webpage. The book is available online, refer below.
*[http://rupkatha.com/memsahib-performing/ "The “Politically Correct Memsahib”: Performing Englishness in Select Anglo-Indian Advice Manuals"] by S Vimala, M G R College, Hosur. ''The Rupkatha Journal'' Volume 5, No. 2, 2013.
*[https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0088139 ''Travelling Home and Empire: British Women in India, 1857-1939''] by Alison Mary Blunt. PhD Thesis University of British Columbia 1997. "This study focuses on the British wives of civil servants and army officers who lived in India from 1857 to 1939".
*[https://www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2018/12/12/dak-banglas-their-dark-tales "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales"] by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. ''Live History India.'' "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."
*[https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/heritage/back-then-at-the-burra-bungalows-of-tea-estates/cid/1680275 "Back then, at the burra bungalows of tea estates"] by Moumita Chaudhuri 30 Dec. 2018 ''The Telegraph'' India.
*[http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=2227 "She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen"] by Katie Hickman 8 March 2020. [[BACSA]] podcast [audio]. Hickman is the author of ''She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen : the lives and times of British women in India 1600-1900''. 2019. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/17/she-merchants-buccaneers-gentlewomen-british-women-india-katie-hickman-review More about the book] Maya Jasanoff 17 May 2019 ''The Guardian''.
===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]. [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.566/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version], K.K. Venugopal Collection, with all images coloured. Probably the publication ''The Costume and Customs of Modern India'', published 1813, from a collection of drawings by Charles Doyley and descriptions by Captain Thomas Williamson, has the same content.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xa5WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ‪''A Manual of Gardening for Western and Southern India''] by Robert Riddell 2nd Edition 1856 Google Books
*''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates, or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India'' by‬ George Francklin Atkinson, with Forty Chapters, each with an Illustration (which may rotated in the Hathi Trust Digital Library versions) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 1st Edition 1858] Hathi Trust, [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3021302?urlappend=%3Bseq=8 2nd Edition 1859] Hathi Trust, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZFxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT5 3rd Edition 1860] Google Books. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, and from 1854 was Executive Engineer of the Umballa Division
:[https://archive.org/details/tropicaltrialsha00hunt ''Tropical Trials. A Hand-book for Women in the Tropics''] by Major S Leigh Hunt Madras Army and Alexander S Kenny. 1883 Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesofsocial015334mbp#page/n1/mode/2up/ ''Sketches of Social Life in India''] CT Buckland: 1884 considers the lives of differing sectors of society. Source: Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/chutneypapersso00macdgoog ''Chutney Papers: Society, Shikar, and Sport in India''] by 'C.M., a Bombay-Walla' 1884. Archive.org. Humorous sketches of life on a 'station'. The author is catalogued as Cameron Joseph F.S . MacDowall, who was a doctor, born 1832, (listed on page 467, ''Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 - Volume 2'' by Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford).*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000357DE ''Jottings and Recollections of a Bengal “Qui hye!”''] by Louis Emanuel [1886] British Library Digital Collection. Includes chapters about servants.
*[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
*''The Complete Indian Housekeeper & Cook : giving the duties of mistress and servants, the general management of the house, and practical recipes for cooking in all its branches'' by F A Steel and G Gardiner, first published 1888. [https://archive.org/details/b28081663 Third Edition 1893], [https://archive.org/details/b2814210x New Edition 1898], [https://archive.org/details/b21528640 New and Revised Edition 1909] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924002826877 ''Mrs. Temple-Wright's Flowers and Gardens in India. With a Hindustant Vocabulary of Gardening and Botanical Terms''] 7th edition revised and edited by W Burns. 1922. Archive.org
* [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianlifeintown00compiala#page/iv/mode/2up/ ''Indian life in town and country''] by Herbert Compton, 1904 has six chapters called "Anglo-India Life" from [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianlifeintown00compiala#page/182/mode/2up page 183] Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/englishbrideinin035142mbp#page/n3/mode/2up '' The English Bride in India''] by Chota Mem ((Junior Memsahib, [Mrs. C. Lang]) 1909 Archive.org. The author is mentioned in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160611053842/https://gherkinstomatoes.com/2009/08/20/cooks-of-the-british-raj-in-the-shadows/ "Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments"] from Cynthia Bertelsen’s Gerkins and Tomatoes, now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianidylls00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Idylls''] by Edith E Cuthell 1890 Archive.org. Short stories by the wife of an Army Officer
*:[http://www.archive.org/stream/mygardenincityg00cutgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory''] by Edith E Cuthell 1905 Archive.org. Memories of life as an Army Officer’s wife in Lucknow.*[httphttps://wwwbooks.google.newcom.dliau/books?id=MPA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Many Camps : Sketches of Indian Life''] by Arthur Waltham Howlett 1912, (articles republished from the ''Manchester Guardian'') Google Books, which describe "travel all over the Raj, from Robat on the Persian Border, the Baluchistan desert, to hill stations and jungle rivers, from desert winters to monsoon rains". Howlett was at that time an Indian Army doctor with the Indian Medical Service, (who later changed to the British Army RAMC).ernet*[https://archive.org/details/nabobsstudyofsoc0000spea/page/n5 ''The Nabobs : a Study of the Social Life of the English inEighteenth Century India''] by Percival Spear. Reprint edition 1980, first published 1932, second enlarged edition 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/handleLending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211175/528072 page/n7 ''British Social Life In India 1608-1937''] by Dennis Kincaid 1938. Pdf downloadArchive.org, Digital Public Library of IndiaCollection.*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/travelerstalemem0000cand/simpleadventures00dunc#page/n9''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India''] by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author’s husband was a metallurgist/modechemical engineer who worked for the Inspectorate of Armaments in ordnance factories at [[Ishapore]] and Ambernath (Bombay Presidency) 1941-46, having been transferred from [[Hong Kong]].*"Dak Bungalows" by Lt.-Col. J K Stanford. Scroll to pages 20-21 [http://www.kiplingjournal.com/acrobat/2up KJ127.pdf ''The Simple Adventures Kipling Journal'' September 1958] kiplingjournal.com*[https://archive.org/details/plaintalesfromra00char ''Plain Tales from the Raj : images of British India in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1986, first published 1975. [https://archive.org/details/plaintalesfromra00alle 1975 edition]. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries. Both editions Archive.org Lending Library.:[https://archive.org/details/raj00lwor/page/n1 ''Raj: a MemsahibScrapbook of British India, 1877-1947''] 
by Sara Jeannette Duncan by Charles Allen 1977. Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive. With illustrations org/details/twomonsoons0000wilk/page/n5 ''Two Monsoons''] by Theon Wilkinson with drawings by FBill Smith 1976. Archive.org Lending Library. The aim was to provide "an insight into the life and death of Europeans in India in the last three centuries".*[https://archive. Horg/details/timetodancenotim00godd ''A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep''] by Rumer Godden 1987. Townsend[https://archive. 1893 org/details/isbn_9780688089047 2nd file] Both files Archive.orgLending Library. An autobiography. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumer_Godden Rumer Godden] (Wikipedia) 1907-1998.*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/womenofraj00macm ''Women of the Raj''] by Margaret Olwen Macmillan 1988.dliArchive.ernetorg Lending Library.in*[https://handlearchive.org/2015details/221032 rulingcasteimper00gilm ''The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj''] by David Gilmour 2006, first published 2005. Archive.org Lending Library. *''Indian Notes About Dogs''] by Major C. 1893. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221032 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Indian Notes about Dogs, their Diseases and Treatment''. Compiled by Major C- [Chambers], author of ''Horse Notes''. Earlier edition 1889*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523701 ''Your Dog In India''] by Pat Sharpe 1944. Pdf download[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523701 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*Fiction**''Chronicles of Dustypore; a Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society'' [by H S Cunningham [Henry Stewart], Sir] 1875. [https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofdust01cunn/page/n7 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofdust02cunn/page/n8 Volume II] Archive.org [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._S._Cunningham H. S. Cunningham] Wikipedia. Born 1832, he went to India in 1866 as Government Advocate and Legal Advisor to the Punjab, based at Lahore. He became Advocate-General of Madras Presidency 1872 and judge of the Calcutta High Court 1877-1887. *:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523701 169320/page/n89 Review of ''Chronicles of Dustypore''] page 73 ''Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, K.C.I.E.'' by Margaret M. Verney 1923 Archive.org version.**[https://archive.org/stream/simpleadventures00dunc#page/n9/mode/2up ''The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib'']
by Sara Jeannette Duncan ... With illustrations by F. H. Townsend.1893 Archive.org
==Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own3k9BJasg&feature=share Sports in British India] You Tube. Short FIBIS video of photographs of sporting events
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140928064952/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap4.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065337/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw4.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 4], archived.
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996 [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press] online edition.
*‪[http://pakistaniaat.org/index.php/pak/article/download/152/152‪ "British hunters in colonial India, 1900-1947: The Gentleman Hunter, New Technology, and Growing Conservationist Awareness"] by Fiona Natasha Mani ''Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies'' Vol. 4, No. 1 (2012) pages 69-87. Pdf download-depending on your browser, may download to your downloads folder.
*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201205A17.html English Howdah Pistols, ca. 1846] A howdah is a very large saddle, which was used on the back of an Indian elephant and these pistols were used in emergencies while hunting from an elephant. Antiques Roadshow Archives from the episode Corpus Christi (#1703) (USA) originally filmed August 4, 2012. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah_pistol Howdah pistol] Wikipedia. [http://www.acant.org.au/Articles/HowdahRifle.html Tiger Tamer: A 12-Bore Howdah Double] from the collection of Tony Orr. acant.org.au
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN3RBJz29U&index=28&list=PLXvkgGofjDzi-fROZSBN3p-CKeaZIc-Ue Indian Elephants in the Service of Man (1938) - amateur film by Jim Corbett] You Tube video. Includes hunting by elephant from 9.35 min, including scenes of the hunter's dogs jumping on to the elephant's back.
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99jun27/sunday/speaking.htm "A forgotten sport"]
 by Manohar Malgonkar June 27, 1999 ''The Tribune'' Pigsticking.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150430035337/http://racingworldindia.com/horseracing/content/view/1071/114/ Pigsticking] by Major S Nargolkar (Retd) racingworldindia.com, now an archived webpage.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151107135743/http://www.pigsticking.com/history.htm Photographs: Pigsticking in India] pigsticking.com, now archived. The Kadir Cup was an individual pigsticking competition organised by the Meerut Tent Club. [httphttps://s10collection.photobucketnam.comac.uk/user/plowmans/media/Tweedydetail.php?acc=1964-08-3-Plowman%20Albums/092005.jpg.html 1 Photograph: of the Kadir Cup 1914awarded in 1911] National Army Museum. Photobucket[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail. php?acc=1956-12-22-1 The Kadir Cup was an individual pigsticking , 1921] Print after Lionel Edwards, 1921. National Army Museum competition organised by the Meerut Tent ClubAccession Number NAM. 1956-12-22-1. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/13108733@N00/3218589419/ Photograph: Captain Tuck of the Meerut Tent Club, with his horse, Manifest. 1936 Kadir Cup - The Hog-hunter's Classic] Flickr.com. [http://www.lib.msu.edu/branches/dmc/tribune/detail.jsp?id=973 Photograph: Red Cross and veterinarians' elephants at the Kadir Cup 1938] www.lib.msu. Originally published in the ''Chicago Tribune'':The [[British Library]] holds the publication ''Hoghunter's annual'', volumes 1(1928)-12(1939), (classified as a Journal) published by The Times Of India Press, Bombay UIN: BLL01008628498 . Also catalogued elsewhere as ''The Hoghunters' Annual'', for which years 1928-1930 are available on the Hathi Trust Digital Library for those with University access. *Videos. [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-mutra-cup-meeting-aka-the-muttra-cup-meeting/query/cup The Muttra Cup Meeting: India’s Largest Pig-Sticking Contest 1934] 1 min 33sec preview British Pathe. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120915081309/http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/3745 The Kadir Cup 1934] Colonial Film , (There is no soundarchived version) silent footage 9:50min, original perhaps now in the collection of [http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=8786 Bristol Museums Archives], although seemingly not in the catalogue. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCi1mdGKCt4 La Kadir Cup] 1938 Commentary in Italian. YouTube
*[http://www.shakariconnection.com/tiger-hunting-books.html Bibliography of Tiger Hunting Books] shakariconnection.com
===Historical Books Onlinebooks online===
*See '''[[Hunting accounts online]]''' for books about hunting, usually called Sport or Shikar, including tiger hunting and pigsticking.
*Two chapters from ''Field Sports in India 1800-1947'' by Major General J.G Elliott with two chapters on pigsticking by C. R. Temple. 1973. Transcriptions of Chapter 4. "The Early Days" and Chapter 5. "The Tent Clubs".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151025171747/https://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-i.html "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt I"], [https://web.archive.org/web/20151025222225/https://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-ii.html "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt II"] The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles.</ref>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/156/mode/2up ''Glimpses of Old Bombay''] by James Douglas, JP, 1900, has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53429 ''John Barleycorn Bahadur: Old Time Taverns in India''] by Major H Hobbs [Harry] 1944 (2nd edition with Index, first published 1943?) Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Some other, but not all, publications by this author, published in Calcutta, are available at the [[British Library]]. [http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1196763 Author details] in photograph description from Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland.
*''A Guide to Training and Horse Management in India, with Hindustanee vocabulary'' by M. Horace Hayes Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/aguidetotrainin00hayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up New Edition much enlarged 1878], [http://www.archive.org/stream/traininghorseman00haye#page/n7/mode/2up 6th edition 1905]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianracingremi00haye#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Racing Reminiscences''] by M. Horace Hayes, illustrated by J.K.Ferguson 1883 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.664/page/n1/mode/2up ''Hotch Potch and Kedgeree''] “being mainly Sir Allan Arthur’s personal experience in the “Land of Humour” in Scotland, India and elsewhere…Also a number of Caricatures and Sketches by Mr F C Macrae and others”. Catalogued 1916 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Includes Royal Calcutta Turf Club stories, and shooting and pig sticking reminiscences.
*[https://archive.org/details/notesonstableman00nunn ''Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies''] by Vety-Capt J A Nunn, late Principal Lahore Veterinary College, 2nd edition revised and enlarged with a glossary 1897 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/hintsonhorseswit00youn ''Hints on horses : with short notes on camels and pack animals ; also a few practical suggetions on the training of polo ponies an players, and gymkhana training and racing''] by Major H P Young, late 4th Bombay Cavalry 3rd edition 1907 Archive.org.
*''The Rod in India : being hints how to obtain sport, with remarks on the natural history of fish and their culture, and illustrations of fish and tackle'' by Henry Sullivan Thomas, Madras Civil Service, Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924003445230 1873 edition], [https://archive.org/details/inindiabeingh00thomrodrich Revised 2nd edition 1881] , [https://archive.org/details/rodinindiabeingh00thomrich Revised 3rd edition 1897] This author also wrote :[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.89329/page/n3/mode/2up ''Tank Angling in India'' ] author catalogued Henry Sullivan Thomas and catalogued 1887. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai Collection. Note title page and pages of the Preface are missing. Also available to readers in North America etc, on the [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100538354 HathiTrust Digital Library].*[https://archive.org/details/hillstationsofin0000wrig/mode/2up ''Hill Stations of India''] by Gillian Wright. Photography by Sarah Lock 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library:''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996 [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press] online edition.
==Railway Life==
*[http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/ Railways of the Raj] Exploring Railway Life in Anglo India
*[httphttps://ebooksweb.adelaidearchive.edu.au/k/kiplingorg/rudyardweb/railway20150919014907/index.html ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide. Jamalpur E.I.R.**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm Among the Railway Folk] from Kipling.org.uk*[http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Ajmer_1933_1940(1).htm Ajmer 1933-40] Life in a railway colony from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150426070344/http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] , now archived, by Eugene Blanchette born 1933, from his website.*[http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/673/602 "Race, Railways and Domiciled Europeans"] by Deborah Nixon ''Transforming Cultures eJournal'', Vol 3, No 1 February 2008. UTS ePress, University of Technology, Sydney. Click on “Fullscreen” A download to your computer which you may need to locate in your downloads folder. [https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bIXepHPDCSsJ:https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view the article/673/602+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=safari Web cache version].*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122185225/http://mungerjamalpur.com/2010/06/15/i-do-not-think-of-jamalpur-as-a-city-i-think-of-it-as-a-railway-colony-bungalow-dwellings-and-happy-valley/ "I do not think of Jamalpur as a city..I think of it as a railway colony …bungalow dwellings …and Happy Valley"] by Yvonne Eva Le Fort June 15, 2010 ''MungerJamalpur'', now archived. Railway Colony life c 1943-1947.*[https://g.co/arts/H1oxk48jvARtYYf66 Their own worlds: the quirks of life in Railway colonies] from Heritage Directorate, Indian Railways. Google Arts & Culture. Images of houses, churches and Railway Institutes in Railway Colonies.===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3058/page/n267/mode/2up ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling, pages 255-282 ''From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Volume II'' 1938, first published 1888. [[Jamalpur]] East Indian Railway,**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm "Among the Railway Folk"] from Kipling.org.uk
==Indo-British Relations==
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/1950-while-memory-serves-by-tuker/mode/2up ''While Memory Serves''] by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker. Digital reprint edition reproduced by Sani H Panhwar, originally published 1950. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.525048/page/n7/mode/2up Original edition] Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Covers the two years 1946 and 1947, "told by one who watched events from the Headquarters of Eastern Command" of the Indian Army, (he was G.O.C. in C.), including riots and bloodshed in Calcutta, the Punjab and elsewhere.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121020043900/http://www.defencejournal.com/dec98/pma.htm [Extract from<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''The Last of the Bengal Lancers''] [published 1988] by Brig (Retd) Francis H B Ingall ''Defence Journal'' December 1998 defencejournal.com, now archived. The author travelled from India to Pakistan, to work for the Pakistan Army, and comments on the massacres.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19551/page/n5 ''The Last Days Of The British Raj''] by Leonard Mosley 1960 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/99999990342498DivideAndQuit ''Divide and Quit''] by Penderel Moon c 1961 Archive.org
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/LastYearsOfBritishIndia ''The Last Years Of British India''] by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.dliorg.ernet.in/handle/2015/124549 * ''Freedom At Midnight''] by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre c 1975 Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124549 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The events in India in 1947*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/220202 ''Partition And Aftermath: Memoirs of an Ambassador''] by Kewal Singh 1992. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.220202 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available to read online on [http://www.apnaorg.com/books/english/partition-aftermath/book.php?fldr=book Academy of the Punjab in North America].*[https://archive.org/details/shamefulflightla00wolp ''Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India''] by Stanley A. Wolpert 2006 Archive.org Lending Library. *[https://archive.org/details/farewellraj0000hear/mode/2up ''Farewell Raj''] by Tony Hearne 2009. Cover includes the extra words ''Witness to End of Empire''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was in the Army Ordnance Corps in India and was discharged August 1947, but due to safety concerns re-enlisted in January 1948, and left India with the regiment some weeks (months?) later. During his time in the Army he witnessed awful scenes. Recommended by Peter Bailey, FIBIS Chairman, in the FIBIS "Journal" no. 22 (Autumn 2009), p. 56, see [[Biographies reading list#20th century|Biographies reading list]].
*For books about Lord Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, see [[Governor-General]].
*See [[British India#Historical books online|British India - Historical books online]] for the publication ''The Transfer of Power 1942-7'', in 12 volumes.
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/rajquartet00paul ''The Raj Quartet''] by Paul Scott, first published in one volume 1976. Published individually 1966-1975. Archive.org Lending Library.
*: Consisting of: ''The Jewel in the Crown''.--''The Day of the Scorpion''.--''The Towers of Silence''.--''A Division of the Spoils''
*:"Four novels covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India."
==Miscellaneous==
:Access the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/ Oral History Collection]. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.
:Access the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/films/ Home video Collection]. Approximately 50 individual collections totalling in the region of 80 hours of footage, taken between 1911 and 1956, with probably most from the 1930s.
*[http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=2227 Podcast [audio<nowiki>]</nowiki>: ''The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience''] by Sir David Gilmour, author, whose books include ''The Ruling Caste'' and ''The British in India''. Podcast of a [[BACSA]] lecture 5 November 2018. BACSA website.
*The San Francisco Minstrels. David Carson and Tom Brown organized a company which toured India 1861-1866. [http://www.circushistory.org/Cork/BurntCork3.htm Circus Historical Society: Brown’s Burnt Cork Activity]. Scroll down to the entry Carson and Brown.
*[https://archive.org/stream/harryminersameri00mineiala#page/6/mode/2up Theatres in Ceylon, British Burma and India] pages 6-8 ''Harry Miner's American dramatic directory for the season of 1884-85''. Archive.org
**[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvkgGofjDzi-fROZSBN3p-CKeaZIc-Ue India on Film: 1899-1947] A collection of short YouTube videos from the British Film Institute.
***[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxNiEy2H5Ho&index=71&list=PLXvkgGofjDzi-fROZSBN3p-CKeaZIc-Ue Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1931]. Includes "Crossing the river in inflated goat skins" at 0.42 min.
 
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