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**Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236120 Fifteenth Edition 1938] [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/462541 17th Edition.] Note, not currently available.
*[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa Bygone days in India] by Douglas Dewar 1922. Archive.org*Books in following sections may include initial chapters which could be classified as '"Guides".
*[https://archive.org/details/indiaburmaceylon00thom/page/n4 ''India, Burma, and Ceylon. Information for travellers and residents''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 1912 Archive.org.
*''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.
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== FIBIS Resources ==
*[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=492&s_id=39 Bombay Golf Club Members]
==Guides==
*''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
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035D96#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=9 ''The East India Voyager, or ten minutes advice to the outward bound''] by Emma Roberts 1839 British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofindiag00stoc ''The hand-book of India, a guide to the stranger and the traveller, and a companion to the resident''] by J.H. Stocqueler 1844 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z-wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Real Life in India, embracing a view of the requirements of individuals appointed to any branch of the Indian Public Service; The Methods of Proceeding to India; and the course of Life in Different Parts of the Country''] by An Old Resident 1847 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z-wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookbombayp00eastgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Bombay Presidency with an account of Bombay City''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, ("for the most part rewritten") 1881 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookpanjbwe01eastgoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Handbook of the Panjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper Sindh''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1883 Archive.org
*''India, Burma, and Ceylon. Information for travellers and residents''. Published by Thos. Cook & Son [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.03045/page/n3/mode/2up 1897 edition] Archive.org Ministry Of Culture [India] Collection. [https://archive.org/details/indiaburmaceylon00thom/page/n4 1912 edition] Archive.org
*''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra05murrgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Third Edition 1898], [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra52firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Fourth Edition 1901], [http://www.archive.org/stream/ahandbookfortra30firgoog#page/n7/mode/2up Fourth Edition, Second Impression 1903], [http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n5/mode/2up Eighth Edition 1911], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529359 Tenth Edition 1919] Archive.org. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c049725688?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Tenth Edition (reprinted) 1920] (originally published 1918) Hathi TrustHathiTrust. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02497 Twelth Edition, 1926] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.236120 Fifteenth Edition 1938].
**Databases with images on the pay website Ancestry: [https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=34937 Murray's Handbook - India, Burma & Ceylon 1926] 12th edition; [https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=34938 Murray's Handbook- India, Burma and Ceylon 1933] 14th edition.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b24757986#page/600/mode/2up/ “Wintering in India”] page 600 ''Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians'' by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball, Fifth edition 1904 Archive.org. Also contains ''Volume II, North Africa and Mediterranean Islands'' from p 331.
==The Passage to India ==
*[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/britishroutestoi01hosk ''British Routes to India''] by Halford Lancaster Hoskins 1928. Archive.org.
*For travel accounts of the Overland Route, see [[Travel accounts online]]
*[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. 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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210325114125/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-lifelong-effects-of-being-a-child-in-the-british-raj "The lifelong effects of being a child in the British Raj"] by Brigid Keenan 27 March 2021 ''The Spectator''.
===Historical books online===
*[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/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.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.753/mode/1up ''Sketches of Indian Life''] drawn by W Lloyd 1890. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Drawings.
*[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa ''Bygone days in India''] by Douglas Dewar 1922. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.03119/mode/2up ''Indian Dust Devils''] by Major H Hobbs 1937 Archive.org. Reminiscences of a time 40 or 50 years earlier, perhaps c 1880s-90s. Also see next category for another book by Hobbs.
*[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/cu31924016407144 ''Cow-keeping in India; a simple and practical book on their care and treatment, their various breeds, and the means of rendering them profitable''] by Isa Tweed 2nd edition 1900, first published 1891. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.50262 ''Tweed's Cow-keeping In India''] 5th edition, revised by S N Sinha, 1931 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/memsahibswomenof0000barr ''The Memsahibs : the Women of Victorian India''] by Pat Barr 1976. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00275/mode/2up ''Anglo-India''] by Alec Holmes 1904. Archive.org Ministry of Culture/National Library of India Collection. Articles originally published in the ''Pioneer''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.44606 ''The Englishwoman In India''] by Maud Diver 1909 Archive.org
*''Indian gardening; a manual of flowers, fruits, and vegetables, soils and manures, and gardening operations of every kind in Bengal, the upper provinces, & the hill stations of India'' by Lieutenant Fred. Pogson.1872 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000684930?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume I Flower and Fruit Garden''], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000684930?urlappend=%3Bseq=235 ''Volume II the Kitchen Garden]'' (in one volume) Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[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.
*[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, [https://archive.org/details/many-camps-sketches-of-indian-life Archive.org version] 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.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/twomonsoons0000wilk/page/n5 ''Two Monsoons''] by Theon Wilkinson with drawings by Bill 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.org/details/racesexclassunde0000ball ''Race, sex, and class under the Raj : imperial attitudes and policies and their critics, 1793-1905''] by Kenneth Ballhatchet 1980. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/timetodancenotim00godd ''A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep''] by Rumer Godden 1987. [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780688089047 2nd file] Both files Archive.org Lending Library. An autobiography. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumer_Godden Rumer Godden] (Wikipedia) 1907-1998.
*[https://archive.org/details/womenofraj00macm ''Women of the Raj''] by Margaret Olwen Macmillan 1988. 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 (possibly 1928-1930 ) is/are available on the Hathi Trust Digital Library for those with University as [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Hoghunters_Annual.html?id=_EggAQAAMAAJ Google Books snippet view], perhaps some may have full 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
*[http://www.shakariconnection.com/tiger-hunting-books.html Bibliography of Tiger Hunting Books] shakariconnection.com
*[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
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150919014907/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,
===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
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