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*:[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.*[https://books.google.com.au/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).*[https://archive.org/details/nabobsstudyofsoc0000spea/page/n5 ''The Nabobs : a Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India''] by Percival Spear. Reprint edition 1980, first published 1932, second enlarged edition 1963. 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.
→Historical books online
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.
** 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.
*[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. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.12214 7th edition 1929] 1929 edition by V. B.Green-Armytage and E.H.Vere Hodge (previously available , Archive.org mirror from Digital Library of India may return in the future}; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547297 8th edition 1933 Archive.org version] by E. H. Vere Hodge, mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31264 9th edition 1933 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/englishwomaninin0000tytl/page/n5 ''An Englishwoman in India : the memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858''] by Harriet Tytler. Edited by Anthony Sattin. 1986. Archive.org Lending Library. Harriet Earle was born into an army family in India Includes her memories of childhood in India 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://archive.org/details/twounderindians000godd ''Two Under the Indian Sun''] by Jon and Rumer Godden 1966. [https://archive.org/details/twounderindiansu00godd 2nd file] Both files Archive.org Lending Library. The sisters were born 1906 and 1907. For an autobiography of Rumer Godden's later life, see next section.
*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 Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/childrenofraj00bren ''Children of the Raj''] by Vyvyen Brendon 2005. 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, British 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, first published 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
==Life in the Bungalows==
*[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
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211175/page/n7 ''British Social Life In India 1608-1937''] by Dennis Kincaid 1938. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelerstalemem0000cand/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/chemical 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/KJ127.pdf ''The 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 Scrapbook of British India, 1877-1947''] by Charles Allen 1977. Archive.org Lending Library.
* ''Your Dog In India'' by Pat Sharpe 1944. [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.2015.169320/page/n89 Review of ''Chronicles of Dustypore''] page 73 ''Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, K.C.I.E.'' by Margaret M. Verney 1923 Archive.org.
**[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
*[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.
*[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
*[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.nam.photobucketac.comuk/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 description only, (archived 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>
*''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
* ''Partition And Aftermath: Memoirs of an Ambassador'' by Kewal Singh 1992. [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.
