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*''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
*[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/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.
*[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.
*[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. [http://s10.photobucket.com/user/plowmans/media/Tweedy-Plowman%20Albums/092005.jpg.html Photograph: Kadir Cup 1914] Photobucket. The Kadir Cup was an individual pigsticking competition organised by the Meerut Tent Club. [https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1964-08-3-1 Photograph of the Kadir Cup awarded in 1911] National Army Museum. [https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1956-12-22-1 The Kadir Cup, 1921] Print after Lionel Edwards, 1921. National Army Museum Accession 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, (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
*[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==
===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
