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== FIBIS Resources ==

==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

*[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

*''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London

**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 ==

*''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.

===Historical books online===

*[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/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/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://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/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/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.

*[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. [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''

*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

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