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{{Cleanup}}The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intro.htm British Voices from South Asia] 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.
Also see [[Society reading list]]
== FIBIS Resources ==
 *[http://www.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=492&s_id=39 Bombay Golf Club Members]
==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]. Also available Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/eastindiavademecum-v1/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/eastindiavademec02will/page/n7/mode/2up 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. Also available [https://archive.org/details/east-india-guide-1825/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org].*[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=qvkNAAAAYAAJZ-wDAAAAQAAJ&printsecpg=frontcover PP7 ''A Handbook for Real Life in India: Being an Account , embracing a view of the Three Presidencies, and requirements of individuals appointed to any branch of the Overland RouteIndian Public Service; The Methods of Proceeding to India; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madrasthe course of Life in Different Parts of the Country''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 An Old Resident 1847 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z-wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents].*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ6LwIAAAAQAAJ&printsecpg=frontcover PP7 ''A The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook for ; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India''] 1850 Google Books [http: Being an Account //books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents]. Includes vocabulary, weights and measures etc *[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Bradshaw%27s+through+India*%29&sort=date ''Bradshaw’s Through Route…and Guide to India''] 1858-1862, 1865, 1869, 1884, 1903, 1913. Archive.org. Title varied over time. Title 1858-1861 is ''Bradshaw's railway &c. through route and overland guide to India, Egypt, and China; or The traveller's manual of how to reach and how to live in the Three three Presidencies, and of India''. :''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Overland Route; intended as a guide for TravellersBengal Presidency, Officers and Civilians. Part II BombayWestern Provinces of India''[http://books.google.com/books?id=1HwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 1860 edition] by Edward B, [https://books.google.com. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 au/books?id=HAVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8-IA1 1864 edition] Google Books. Archive.org mirror versions [https://archive.org/details/bradshaws-bengal-1860/page/n9/mode/2up 1860], [https://archive.org/details/bradshaws-bengal-1864/page/n21/mode/2up 1864].*:[httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=1HwDAAAAQAAJ7ARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 PR10-IA1 ''Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book Book to the Bengal Madras Presidency, and Western the Central Provinces of India''] 1860 1864 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/bradshaws-madras-1864/page/n21/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version 1864]. *:[http://books.google.com/books?id=N30DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/bradshaws-bombay-1864/page/n47/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version 1864].:Bradshaw's Railway Guides were very well known in the UK and were used by Michael Portillo in his ''Great Railway Journeys'' television series.*[https://archive.org/details/handbkindia-eastwick1859/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras. Part II Bombay''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Archive.org*[http://www.archive.org/details/handbookbengalp00eastgoog ''Handbook of the Bengal Presidency with an account of Calcutta City''] by Edward E B Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookmadrasp00firgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Madras Presidency''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, (almost entirely rewritten) 1879 Archive.org
*[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. **The [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c049725688?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Tenth Edition (reprinted) 1920, with a few changes] HathiTrust. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02497 Twelth Edition, 1926], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.236120 Fifteenth Edition 1938 is ] Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrave0000unse_n4m7/page/n5/mode/2up Sixteenth Edition 1949], [https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrave0013rush/page/n5/mode/2up Twentieth Edition 1965] latter two Archive.org Books to Borrow. [https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28+%22Handbook+for+Travellers+in+India+%22%29&sort=date Additional years and editions are also available to read online on Archive.org].**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. Both these editions are also available on Archive.org, see immediately above.*[Online bookshttps://archive.org/stream/b24757986#Digital Library 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 India| Digital Library 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. Ball also edited the 1913 edition of India]] website''Bradshaw's Through Routes'', see above.*Books in following sections may include initial chapters which could be classified as '"Guides".
==The Passage to India ==
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Also see [[Maritime Service]] for descriptions of some sea voyages to India.
The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
 *[httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1] , [httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw1.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 1]*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255515028 thread] discusses the “overland route” from London to India.*India List post transcribing a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-03/1301585129 ''The Times'' Thursday, 29 July, 1858] praising the captain of the Peninsula and Oriental Steamship Candida, travelling from India and China, with signatories, an India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301836311 response] and a further India List transcription of a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301846241 ''The Times'' 5 January 1859] regarding the “evils and annoyances” experienced on the transit through Egypt to board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam vessel Ceylon,(for travel to India), with signatories*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India . [httphttps://michelhoude.com/Waghorm/ImagesLTW/@WArticle.htm MichelHoude.com]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140918003016/http://www.mta.hu/fileadmin/szekfoglalok/000914.pdf “Three British Travellers to the Middle East and India in the Early Seventeenth Century”] by Clifford Edmund Bosworth (April 2005?) Hungarian Academy of Sciences, archived. It includes details of Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who walked from Aleppo in Syria to India, via Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, arriving at Amjer, Rajasthan in July 1615 after a ten month walk.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180102060427/http://www.irasmirror.ucalgaryco.cauk:80/~volknews/sylviauk-news/Desert.htm “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey exclusive-the-greatest-escape---war-394421 "The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4,000 miles from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the DesertSiberian death camp"] by William Beawes16 May 2009 mirror.co.uk, Esqr 1745 from archived. Witold Glinski''The Desert Route s escape to freedom in India. [https://www.explorersweb.com/trek/news.php?id=19856 Gliniecki: "I have solid evidence Glinski didn'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia*t do The Long Walk"] Jan 04, 2011 ExplorersWeb. [httphttps://www.irastelegraph.ucalgaryco.cauk/~volknews/sylviaobituaries/Desert210158049/Witold-Glinski.htm “Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748”html Obituary: Witold Glinski] by Gaylard Roberts from 03 Jul 2013 ''The Desert Route to IndiaTelegraph'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia. ===Historical books online===*[http://booksaccess.googlebl.comuk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/booksvdc_00000005BF3E#?idc=0&m=0&s=0&cv=RrA2AAAAMAAJ8&pgxywh=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo1%2C-915%2C4269%2C4208 ''The Overland Traveller, over the Desert or Guide to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage persons proceeding to Europe via the East Indies: Volume 1Red Sea, from India'' ] [With maps.] by John Henry Grose 1772Blackburn 1838. British Library Digital. Google Books*[https://archive. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from org/details/communicationwi00gallgoog ''Communication with India, China, &c: Observations on the Proposed Improvements in the East India Company and was refused a passage to India Overland Route via Egypt with remarks on board any of the CompanyShip Canal,…'s ships'] by John Alexander Galloway 1844 Archive. This book commences with a description of a org*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ2Q4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage PA12-IA5 ''The Anglo-Indian passage, homeward and outward, or, A card for the overland traveller from Southhampton to Bombay in 1750, Madras, and Calcutta : with letters descriptive of the homeward passage'']by David Lester Richardson 1845 Google Books*[httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJDEUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 PA3 ''Journal of a route across ‪Messrs. Waghorn & Co.'s Overland Guide to India, through : 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 England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818India via Egypt''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google BooksCaptain James Barber HCS 2nd edition 1850. Archive. org*[http://www.kclaccess.acbl.uk/depstaitem/issviewer/libraryark:/speccoll81055/bomarch/bomaug05vdc_000000051D14 ''Grindlay and Co.'s Overland Circular.html Book of Hints for travellers to India, detailing the Monthseveral routes''] by Kings College London 1854 British LibraryDigital. *''Orient Line Guide'' by W J Loftie [https://archive.org/details/orientlineguide00unkngoog 3rd edition 1888] Archive.org [http://wwwaccess.mirror.cobl.uk/newsitem/viewer/ark:/uk-news81055/exclusive-vdc_0000000560B2# 5th edition 1894] British Library Digital Collection. Covers thevoyage to Ceylon, including Suez, (then on to Australia). This route did not call in at Indian ports.*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-greatest412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-escape---war-394421 The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4bound travellers from India,000 miles from Siberian death campAustralia and the East''] 16 May 2009 mirror1893 National Library of Australia.coIncludes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.uk*[https://archive. Witold Glinskiorg/details/britishroutestoi01hosk ''s escape British Routes to freedom in India''] by Halford Lancaster Hoskins 1928. Archive.org.*For travel accounts of the Overland Route, see [[Travel accounts online]]
==Work==
* Camping out in the country with the Collector of Kaira (Bombay Presidency) 1875 from [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023218955#page/n43/mode/2up ''Modern India and the Indians : being a series of impressions, notes and essays''], page 30 by Sir Monier Monier-Williams 1891 Archive.org
*[httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2] , [httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw2.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 2]
*[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-openpage/article2443690.ece "How our British rulers 'legalised' bribery"] The Hindu.com
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoirswithfulla00rossuoft#page/16/mode/2up The work and life of the British rulers in India] pages 16-17 ''Memoirs, with a Full Account of the Great Malaria Problem and its Solution'' by Ronald Ross 1923 Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3MefAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 ''Chota Sahib... You've Had a Busy Day''] by Charles Nida 2007 Sample pages Google Books. Also available are [https://web.archive.org/web/20230219004543/https://whitbywriters.com/chota-sahib-youve-had-a-busy-day/ Transcribed extracts] from the book whitbywriters.com. Covers the period 1913-1916. From the Foreword "Charles Henry George Nida (1895-1985) was ... a box-wallah – a travelling salesman in India on the eve of the Great War. ... he was a chota sahib – “little man”". Nida was only 18 when he arrived in India. Circa 1916 he volunteered with the [[25th Motor Machine Gun Battery (Calcutta Volunteers)|Calcutta Motor-Cycle Machine-Gun Battery]].
==Marriage and children==
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2001-10/1003835376 thread] discusses under age marriage.
 
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-09/1158981804 thread] mentions a marriage performed by an Army Adjutant in 1809, with remarriage by a clergyman in 1812. Only the second marriage appears in the records.
 
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogis_22selb#page/n517/mode/2up “Returns of Marriages at Outstations in the Madras Presidency, Recorded in the Register Book of St Mary’s, Fort St George, between 1783 and 1805”] by F.E.P. gives background details of marriages by Civil Residents and Commanding Officers (from ''The Genealogist, Volume 22 1906'', page 248 Archive.org)
*The following letter from Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, written in 1826 to the Archbishop of Canterbury sets out the situation applying to Army soldiers and permission to marry. In Church records of marriages, marriage is by licence or by banns. In India, at least in this period, marriage by banns included marriage under the conditions mentioned by Bishop Heber. From ''Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825; (With notes upon Ceylon,) an Account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India, Volume 2'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwRFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA251 Page 251] Google Books
** 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]. 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 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.farewellthewinterlinekrrcassociation.com/index.html ''Farewell the Winterline, php/association/20-swift-bold-stories/139-goddard-childhood-memories-of-india "Childhood Memories of a Boyhood in India''"] by Stanley Elwood BrushJohn Goddard, born KRRC. 1925. His parents were American Baptist missionariesKRRC Association. He attended Woodstock School at [[Mussoorie]] The author was born in 1923 and lived most of the Himalyan foothills*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood time until 1933 in India, spent in Army cantonmentsin Lucknow and Calcutta. His father was officers’ mess sergeant in a battalion of the King’s Royal Indian Army Service Rifle Corps (RIASCthe 60th Rifles). Indian-tales.com*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150609081320/http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html 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.com.pk Jang Newspapers 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180417051903/http://cdn1www.retronautindian-tales.cocom/wppages0-9.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-contenttales.com, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210325114125/https:/uploads/2012www.spectator.co.uk/03article/Mythe-lifelong-effects-motherof-being-carrieda-child-in-throughthe-foothillsbritish-raj "The lifelong effects of-Himalayasbeing a child in the British Raj"] by Brigid Keenan 27 March 2021 ''The Spectator''. ===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.jpg Photograph 108461/page/n7 ''Observations on the Mussulmauns of “My mother being carried through foothills India : descriptive of Himalayas”their manners, customs, habits and religious opinion made during a twelve years' residence in the immediate society''] from photographs 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://wwwbooks.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.retronaut*[https://archive.coorg/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/2012n37/03mode/growing1up The author’s English maid receives many marriage proposals. The photograph system] pages 15-up16 ''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 inIndia''; ''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-indiaMajor, 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-1923Armytage. All Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.12214 7th edition 1929] by V. B. Green-Armytage and E.H.Vere Hodge, Archive.org mirror from Digital Library of India; [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 Growing Up In 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, 19231828-19331858''] 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 mother Far Pavilions'' and ''Shadow of Janet MacLeod Trotterthe 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==
*See also [[Food and Drink]]
*See also [[Mandalay]] for a poisoning of a family by disgruntled servants.
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/03/our-hero-is-a-sportsman-british-domestic-interiors-in-19th-century-india.html "‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India"] British Library blog “Untold Lives” 05 March 2014. Includes three images by William Tayler from his 1842 publication ''Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians'', one of which "The Young Lady's Toilet" is also available in [http://blogs.bl.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef01b8d2ac7fe2970c-pi another BL blog]
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/a-daughter-of-the-empire "A daughter of the Empire": Edwardian life in India, 1901-03" ] on website of Kings College London, looks at the life of Beryl White, a member of the British ruling class. Her father, John Claude White, was the first British Political Officer in Sikkim, refer [[Photographer#Books|Photographer - Books]]
*[httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3] , [httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3]*[httphttps://enweb.wikipediaarchive.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian_cuisine Anglo Indian Cuisine] Wikipedia*[http://anglo-indianfood.blogspot.com/2009web/0420060913012017/tracking-down-traditional-scottish-food.html Anglo-Indian Food] from Anglo-IndianFood.blogspot.com*[http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/workfolio/glover.pdf "“A Feeling of Absence from Old England:” the Colonial Bungalow"] by William J Glover ''Home Cultures '' Volume 1 Issue 1 pages 61-82 2004(?)*[http://wwwtcaup.washingtontimesumich.com/news/2010/jun/4/book-review-the-complete-indian-housekeeper-and-co/ Review] of the book ''The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook'', a reprint of the 1898 edition,(first published 1888) Washington Times Friday, 4 June 2010 ; [http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/camp-life Extract about camp life]; India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2003-05/1052128663 thread] about the 1904 edition. This book is available through Amazonedu,co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.conow archived.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/019955014X FIBIS Shop]
*[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
*This British Raj List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301732351 thread] led to a British Raj list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301860937 post] with a transcription of a newspaper report about the Lillywhite family, poisoned by arsenic by the family cook in Mandalay, Burma, c 1899, resulting in three deaths.
*[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
*[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/onmyplate/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.""
*[https://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'', 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.
 
===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
*"Calvert Smith, the baby from the Parsonage" by Diana Bousfield-Wells ''[[FIBIS Journal]] Number 30 (Autumn 2013)'' pages 33 -42 . Continuing the previous article. Letters by the Rev Thomas Smith until his death in early 1888, regarding the care of his young son.
*"Memories of my childhood in British India" by Pearline Philomena Berry ''FIBIS Journal Number 34 (Autumn 2015''). page 49. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
*"An English Bride in Edwardian India" by Christine Kendell ''FIBIS Journal Number 35 (Spring 2016)'', pages 3-5. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
 
===Historical books online===
*[http://wwwbooks.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/streamdetails/dli.venugopal.566/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft#page/n7n1/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 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. Third edition (186031951001679470b?) First published urlappend=%3Bseq=3 1st Edition 1858] Hathi Trust, [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1. Archivec3021302?urlappend=%3Bseq=8 2nd Edition 1859] Hathi Trust, [https://books.google.com.orgau/books?id=ZFxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT5 3rd Edition 1860] Google Books. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, in and from 1854 was Executive Engineer of the Umballa Division** An inflated sheepskin, usually used as a water-carrier's bag: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=121 Illustration: Our Bath] [swimming pool] with a description on [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=124 page 124] of an inflated sheep’s hide, used for fun in the pool. Hathi Trust. Note: Illustration can be rotated.*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsinind01langgoog ''Wanderings in India: and other sketches of life in Hindostan''] by John Lang 1859 Archive.org. Missing the one image. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003515A British Library Digital Collection]. The one image is rotatable. Most of the chapters first appeared in Charles Dickens’s magazine, ''Household Words''. The author was proprietor of a newspaper, the ''Mofussilite'', see [[Journalist]], a novelist, and had practiced as a barrister.
*"Anglo Indian Society", ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal'' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwccAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA232 Part 1] page 232 of ''1860 Part 3'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h9cRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221 Part 2], page 221 of ''1861 Part 2''
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=uEUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book: comprising numerous directions for plain wholesome cookery, both Oriental and English, with much miscellaneous matter, answering all general purposes of reference connected with household affairs likely to be immediately required by families, messes, and private individuals, residing at the presidencies or out-stations''] by R. Riddell 5th edition 1860 Google Books
*[http://gutenbergbooks.netgoogle.com.au/ebooks05/0500071hbooks?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Englishwoman in India: Information for Ladies on their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping ....html and Receipts for Indian Cookery''The ] by "a Lady Resident" 1864 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113 Indian Cookery Bookpage 113]*[https://archive.org/details/laysofindbyaliph00yelduoft/mode/2up ''Lays of Ind : comical, satirical and descriptive poems illustrative of English life in India'']by "Aliph Cheem" (pseud. of Walter Yeldham) 11th edition 1905, first published 1871. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924013577121/mode/2up 3rd edition 1872] [https://archive.org/details/laysind01cheegoog/page/n3/mode/2up 1871 edition] All Archive.org:Also see ''New Lays of Ind: Personal reminiscences of an Indian Civilian'' by ThackerAleph Ré 1903, Spink below. This book appears to be written by a different author. *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sOlGAAAAIAAJ& Copg=PP7 ''Life in India : a series of sketches showing something of the Anglo-Indian, the land he lives in, and the people among whom he lives''] by Edward Braddon 1872 Google Books*[https://archive.org/details/indianoutfitsest00angliala ''Indian Outfits & Establishments : practical guide for persons to reside in India : detailing the articles which should be taken out, Calcuttaand the requirements of home life and management there''] by An Anglo-Indian 1882 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/indianoutfitsest00angliala#page/140/mode/2up Index]. First From articles first published 1880 as in the magazine ''The Indian Cookery BookBazaar''.*[https: //archive.org/details/b28709871 ''On Duty under a Tropical Sun : being some practical handbook to suggestions for the maintenance of health and bodily comfort and the treatment of simple diseases, with remarks on clothing and equipment for the guidance of travellers in tropical countries''] by Major S Leigh Hunt Madras Army and Alexander S Kenny 1882 Archive.org. Includes military matters. :[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 kitchen 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., adapted to 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 Three PresidenciesIndian Medical Service 1615-1930 - Volume 2'' by Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford).*[http: By //access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000357DE ''Jottings and Recollections of a thirty-five years ResidentBengal “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/newlaysofindpers00real/page/n3/mode/2up ''New Lays of Ind: Personal reminiscences of an Indian Civilian''] by Aleph Ré 1903. Archive.org*[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. Project Gutenberg Australia
*[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/flowersandgarden031469mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Flowers And Gardens In India: A Manual for Beginners''] by Mrs R Temple Wright 4th edition 1902 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 [httphttps://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*[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25914/25914-h/25914-h.htm ''The Khaki Kook Book: A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan''] by Mary Kennedy Core 1917 Project Gutenberg. The introduction indicates the author was , now an American missionaryarchived 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
*:[httphttps://www.archive.org/streamdetails/indianmemories00burrrich/intentandbungal00cuthgoog#page/n10n5/mode/2up ''In Tent and BungalowIndian Memories''] by W S Burrell and Edith E Cuthell 1892 1893 Archive.org. Short [https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2021/02/a-british-army-route-march-in-india.html British Library Untold lived blog] about one of the stories by "Up to the wife of an Army OfficerHills".*:[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/dli.ministry.04565/page/n5/mode/2up ''My India''] by Lillian Luker Ashby with Roger Whately 1938 Archive.org. The author was born in Monghyr, in the Province of Bengal and Bihar in 1876. She was the daughter of a Police Inspector, and her husband, early in the marriage became a Police Inspector, whose last job was at Sakchi at the Tata’s Iron and Steel Works in charge of the Police. She left India c 1928 when her husband retired due to ill heath. *[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. *[https://archive.org/details/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. [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* ''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
==Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field==
 *[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap4.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw4.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 4]*[httpCategory://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/yacht-club.html Royal Bombay Yacht Club 1910] Postcard from Images Sport images| Unique collection of Asia*''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.*Van Ingen and Van Ingen were master taxidermists who processed many tigers, leopards and other animals. For further details, refer [[MysoreSport images held on Fibiwiki]], where their factory was located.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own3k9BJasg&feature=share Sports in British India] You Tube. Short FIBIS video of photographs of sporting events
*[https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap4.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4], [https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw4.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 4]*‪[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.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=511 collection/hunting-trip-in-coimbatore-india Hunting trip in Coimbatore, India 1920] Photographs taken during Charles Foulkes' big game hunting trip, from "The Serving Soldier" collection, King’s College London ===Historical Books Online*[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/streamweb/sketchesofsocial015334mbp#page20151107135743/n1http:/mode/2upwww.pigsticking.com/ ''Sketches of Social Life history.htm Photographs: Pigsticking in India''] CT Buckland pigsticking.com, now archived. The Kadir Cup was an individual pigsticking competition organised by the Meerut Tent Club. [https: 1884 considers //collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1964-08-3-1 Photograph of the lives of differing sectors of societyKadir Cup awarded in 1911] National Army Museum. Source [https: Archive//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.org1956-12-22-1.*[http://www.archiveflickr.orgcom/streamphotos/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page13108733@N00/1563218589419/mode/2up ''Glimpses Photograph: Captain Tuck of Old Bombay'the Meerut Tent Club, with his horse, Manifest. 1936 Kadir Cup - The Hog-hunter's Classic] by James Douglas, JP has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at ArchiveFlickr.orgcom.*[http://bookswww.lib.googlemsu.comedu/branches/dmc/tribune/booksdetail.jsp?id=gAZCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 973 Photograph: Red Cross and veterinarians' elephants at the Kadir Cup 1938] www.lib.msu. Originally published in the ''Oriental Field Sports Volume 1Chicago Tribune'':The [[British Library]] holds the publication ''Hoghunter's annual'', volumes 1(1928)-12(1939), (classified as a Journal) published by Captain Thomas Williamson 1807 Google BooksThe Times Of India Press, Bombay UIN: BLL01008628498 . With coloured illustrations*Also catalogued elsewhere as ''The Hoghunters' Annual'', for which 1928 (possibly 1928-1930) is/are available as [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Hoghunters_Annual.html?id=KmFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals''] by Daniel Johnson 1827 _EggAQAAMAAJ Google Bookssnippet view], perhaps some may have full access.*Videos. [http://bookswww.googlebritishpathe.com/books?id=MwoFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 ''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 Old Forest RangerKadir Cup 1934] Colonial Film, or(archived version) silent footage 9:50min, Wild Sports original perhaps now in the collection of India on the Neilgherry Hills[http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=8786 Bristol Museums Archives], although seemingly not in the Jungles and On the Plains''catalogue. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCi1mdGKCt4 La Kadir Cup] by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books1938 Commentary in Italian. YouTube*[http://www.archiveshakariconnection.orgcom/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich tiger-hunting-books.html Bibliography of Tiger Hunting Books] shakariconnection.com ===Historical books online===*See '''[[Hunting accounts online]]'Wild Men and Wild Beasts Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cummingfor books about hunting, usually called Sport or Shikar, 1872 Archive including tiger hunting and pigsticking.org*Two chapters from ''The New Shikari at our Indian StationsField Sports in India 1800-1947'' by Julius Barras 1885 ArchiveMajor 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".org <ref>[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/streamweb/20151025171747/https://newshikariatour00barrgoog#pagetrochronicles.blogspot.com/n32010/mode03/2up Volume 1hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-i.html "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt I"], [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/streamweb/20151025222225/https://newshikariatour01barrgoog#pagetrochronicles.blogspot.com/n42010/mode03/2up Volume 2hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-ii.html "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt II"]The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles.</ref>*[http://www.archive.org/stream/shikarsketcheswi00browrichglimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/n7156/mode/2up ''Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-SportsGlimpses of Old Bombay''] by J Moray BrownJames Douglas, JP, 1900, late 79th Cameron Highlanders.1887 has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at Archive.org.*[httphttps://www.archive.org/streamdetails/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up in.ernet.dli.2015.53429 ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier John Barleycorn Bahadur: being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter Old Time Taverns in an indian frontier districtIndia''] by James Inglis 1892. Major H Hobbs [Harry] 1944 (2nd edition with Index, first published 1943?) Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. ''Sport and Work on Some other, but not all, publications by this author, published in Calcutta, are available at the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878[[British Library]].*[http://wwwcanmore.archiveorg.orguk/streamcollection/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''1196763 Author details] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archivein photograph description from Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland.org*[http://www.archive.org/stream/soneporereminisc00abborich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Sonepore reminiscences. Years 1840-96''] by Harry E Abbott 1896. Archive.org . Horse racing at Sonepore (a native state, South-West Frontier of Bengal, now Orissa state)
*''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*[httphttps://www.archive.org/streamdetails/dli.venugopal.664/lettersonsporti00simsgoog#page/n9n1/mode/2up ''Letters on Sport in Eastern BengalHotch 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 Frank BMr F C Macrae and others”. Simson, Bengal Civil Service (retired) 1886 Catalogued 1916 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Includes Royal Calcutta Turf Club stories, and shooting and pig sticking reminiscences.*[httphttps://www.archive.org/streamdetails/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:/pigstickingorhog00baderich#page/n5archive.org/modedetails/2up hintsonhorseswit00youn ''Pigsticking or, HoghuntingHints on horses : with short notes on camels and pack animals ; also a complete account for sportsmenfew practical suggetions on the training of polo ponies an players, and othersgymkhana training and racing''] by Captain RMajor H P Young, late 4th Bombay Cavalry 3rd edition 1907 Archive. Sorg. S*''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. Baden-Powell [of Scouting famehttps://archive.org/details/cu31924003445230 1873 edition] Illustrated by the author, [https://archive. 1889 Archiveorg/details/inindiabeingh00thomrodrich Revised 2nd edition 1881] , [https://archive.org/details/rodinindiabeingh00thomrich Revised 3rd edition 1897]*:[httphttps://www.archive.org/streamdetails/dli.granth.89329/reminiscencesoft00raourich#page/n9n3/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of twenty years' pigsticking Tank Angling in BengalIndia''] by Raoul 1893 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 [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100538354 HathiTrust Digital Library].*[httphttps://www.archive.org/stream/modernpigstickin00wardrich#pagedetails/n9hillstationsofin0000wrig/mode/2up ''Modern pig-stickingHill Stations of India''] by A. E Gillian Wright. Wardrop, Royal Horse Artillery, with chapters Photography by JSarah Lock 1991. Vaughan, FArchive. W. Caton Jonesorg Books to Borrow/Lending Library:''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, M1996 [http://www. Mescholarship. Crawford, and Horg/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press] online edition. E. Medlicott 1914 Archive.org
==Railway Life==
*[http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/ Railways of the Raj] Exploring Railway Life in Anglo India
**[http://railwaysofrajepress.lib.blogspotuts.edu.comau/2009journals/08/pam-and-antique-stoveindex.html Pam and the antique stove]*[http:php/TfC/www.pricewebhome.co.ukarticle/Docsview/Price673/602 "Race, Railways/Railways.htm Railway Colonies in Indiaand Domiciled Europeans"] by John Alton Price*[http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/railway/index.html Deborah Nixon ''Among the Railway FolkTransforming Cultures eJournal''] by Rudyard Kipling 1888, Vol 3, No 1 February 2008. Web edition published by eBooks@AdelaideUTS ePress, University of Technology, Sydney. Jamalpur E.I.R.**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm Among the Railway Folk] from KiplingA download to your computer which you may need to locate in your downloads folder.org.uk*[httphttps://docswebcache.googlegoogleusercontent.com/viewersearch?a=v&q=cache:AUXVkIWqoF4JbIXepHPDCSsJ:https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojsjournals/index.php/TfC/article/downloadview/673/602+%22Anglo+Indian%22+Railways&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&pidclient=bl&srcid=ADGEESjPtoyzxDCzJGtncS2bWDpFuS-I4aNWOtzZA-0G4dscxkpfqHkLrPU6UNzn88LNLw5uhjEfrhTSbQ_Pi27Al4Gx2l-3CKK8SoWl7MZnTxPgTiJ4zsweZnDCmf9s_R0Rr7VzXUF7&sig=AHIEtbRqAXoTs3mUO1IjVM_6VMwtQ4sc0w "Race, Railways and Domiciled Europeans"safari Web cache version] by Deborah Nixon ''Transforming Cultures eJournal'', Vol 3, No 1 February 2008.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122185225/http://www.gpmsdbawebmungerjamalpur.com/memoir22010/LifeinIndia06/Ajmer_1933_1940(1).htm Ajmer 193315/i-do-not-think-of-jamalpur-as-a-city-i-think-of-it-as-40] Life in a -railway -colony from [http:-bungalow-dwellings-and-happy-valley//www"I do not think of Jamalpur as a city.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian ChildhoodI think of it as a railway colony …bungalow dwellings …and Happy Valley"] by Eugene Blanchette born 1933Yvonne Eva Le Fort June 15, 2010 ''MungerJamalpur'', from his websitenow archived. Railway Colony life c 1943-1947.*[httphttps://dustymuffing.wordpress.comco/categoryarts/grandpas-story Grandpa’s Story]. Percy Morris joined H1oxk48jvARtYYf66 Their own worlds: the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta quirks of life in Railwaycolonies]] (MSM) as an Assistant Locomotive Superintendent in 1925from Heritage Directorate, Indian Railways. Google Arts & Culture. He became Chief Mechanical EngineerImages of houses, churches and later Director of the Railway Board, until he retired Institutes in 1955. Blog by his granddaughter of 1986 interviews in 15 parts. Scroll to the bottom for part 1 Indian service commences part 2Railway Colonies. ==Death=Historical books online===*This India List [httphttps://archiverarchive.rootsweborg/details/in.ernet.dli.ancestry2015.com3058/thpage/readn267/indiamode/2008-11/1226939768 post2up ''Among the Railway Folk''] advises “Personnel of all ranks were usually buried on the spot by Rudyard Kipling, with what pages 255-282 ''From Sea to some today think of as unseemly hasteSea and Other Sketches, Volume II'' 1938, but it must be remembered that there was then no refrigeration and the human body does not last long in tropical heatfirst published 1888."[[Jamalpur]] East Indian Railway,*This India List *Article [http://archiverwww.rootswebkipling.ancestryorg.comuk/th/read/india/2008-11/1227000024 post] and this [http://archiverrg_railwayfolk_intro.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-07/1279549350 posthtm "Among the Railway Folk"] and [http://archiverfrom Kipling.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-07/1279611978 response] refer to the preservation of bodies after death at seaorg.uk
==Indo-British Relations==
 *[httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap5.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5] [httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw5.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 5].
==Departure and Connections==
 *[httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap6b.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [httphttps://www.lib.lsu.edu/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw6.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 6].*[http://archive.is/OWYO Lahore: Blood on the Tracks] by William Dalrymple 1997. archive of travelintelligence.com. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120830173245/http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/lahore-blood-tracks Another archived version]). Also an episode in the 1997 TV documentary series [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568 Stones of the Raj]
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/curious.html "The Curious Exclusion Of Anglo-Indians From Mass Slaughter During The Partition Of India"]. Experiences in India During 1947 of some who went to New Zealand by Dorothy McMenamin in 'The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 9, Number 1, 2006.
*[http://www.expressandstar.com/latest/2009/03/30/bloody-memories-for-child-of-the-raj/ Bloody memories for child of the Raj] Express and Star dated 30 March 2009. Also see [[Biographies reading list]] for more details of ''Farewell Raj: Witness to End of Empire'' by Tony Hearne
*Two articles [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=490750 Partition, and Last Days of the Raj] by Duncan Allan. The first article is dated May 1, 2014. Scroll down to the 2nd post dated September 17 2012. The author was in the 2/1st Gurkha Rifles at the time of Partition and witnessed many dead bodies. Koi-Hai website.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116110725/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinionvoices/letter-massacres-at-the-partition-of-india-1246366.html Letter: Massacres at the partition of India] by F B Manley Wednesday, 20 August 1997 independent.co.uk*[http://www.tajmahalfoxtrotmid-day.com/?p=1672 Maxine Steller’s Bombay]. Born photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in 1930-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, daughter of Bill Taylor who was in the Bombay Police Force1947, they lived in quarters behind soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the various police stations he was assigned toS.S. She describes her early life, including becoming Georgic bound for Britain] on the female singer quayside in a bandMumbai, and the conditions before and first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence, until she left . mid-day.com. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxckDsWPko Video: British Troops Leave India 1947] British Pathe on YouTube . This video appears to be of the same troops as in 1950 for Australiathe photograph although they are unnamed. They are however sailing on the 'Georgic':[http://news. tajmahalfoxtrotgoogle.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19470818&id=a2hAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j5QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,6345664 "British Troops Leave"] The Glasgow Herald August 18, 1947 Google News*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130721143247/http://www.britains-smallwars.com/India/last.html Sunset on the Raj: The Last to Leave] The last British troops to leave India were the [[13th Regiment of Foot|1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry]] on 28 February 1948 at Bombay. britains-smallwars.com*[http://scroll.in/article/748690/how-indian-newspapers-reported-independence-and-partition-in-1947 "How Indian newspapers reported Independence and Partition in 1947"] by Shoaib Daniyal August 15, 2015. Scroll.in*[http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-40788079/cyril-radcliffe-the-man-who-drew-the-partition-line "Cyril Radcliffe: The man who drew the partition line"] BBC video.:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-rYRcDgUCo "This Bloody Line"] A film by Ram Madhvani. Cyril Radcliffe was the British lawyer tasked with deciding on the dividing line at Partition. YouTube video.*[http://www.nihcr.edu.pk/Latest_English_Journal/Pjhc%2027-1%202006/3-Sir%20Evan%20Jenkins%20the%20Last%20,%20Farah.DOC.pdf "Sir Evan Jenkins and the 1947 Partition of the Punjab"] by Farah Gul Baqai ''Pakistan Journal of History and Culture'' Vol.XXVII No.1 Jan-Jun 2006. Jenkins became the Governor of the Punjab on April 8, 1946 and held this position until 15 August 1947. ===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.:Complete book [https://archive.org/details/lastofbengallanc0000inga/mode/2up ''The Last of the Bengal Lancers''] by Francis Ingall 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[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*[https://archive.org/details/LastYearsOfBritishIndia ''The Last Years Of British India''] by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.org.* ''Freedom At Midnight'' by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre c 1975 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124549 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The events in India in 1947* ''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.*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==
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/identi~1.html "Identifying Domiciled Europeans in Colonial India: Poor Whites or Privileged Community?"] by Dorothy McMenamin ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 1, 2001. Details four formal oral histories which are lodged at University of Canterbury [N.Z.] Library.
*The [[University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies]] has an online collection of oral histories and home videos.
: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.
*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
*Videos on YouTube
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOI8fB6MPyk BBC News - Witness: The end of British rule in India]
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0I0oU5lyOg The British Empire and India (part 1 of 2)]
***includes a segment at 3.16 on the Khatnaoo, an inflatable bullock skin used for water travel (may also be called a Dareyi)
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZWImTqW5s The British Empire and India (part 2 of 2)]
**[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.
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/identi~1.html "Identifying Domiciled Europeans in Colonial India: Poor Whites or Privileged Community?"] by Dorothy McMenamin ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 1, 2001. Details four formal oral histories which are lodged at University of Canterbury [N.Z.] Library.==Also see==*The [[University Means of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies]] has a collection of oral histories and home videos, as detailed in this [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6947170.ece Times On LineTransport‎] article. Access the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/audio.html Oral History Collection]. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.
==Recommended Reading==
*This [http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Reminiscences-of-the-Raj/549103 ''Indian Express''] article describes the book ''Mehtars and Marigolds'' by Barbara Dinner 2009, about four generations of her family from 1874, starting in Simla. This [http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/entertainment/Bath-India-8211/article-1540735-detail/article.html link] also discusses the book which has been favourably reviewed in [[FIBIS Journals|FIBIS Journal]] no 25 (Spring 2011).
 
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