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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013402/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intro.htm British Voices from South Asia], now archived, which contains material from an exhibition which was held in Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, April 8 to August 6, 1996. The exhibition marked the acquisition by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU of a series of taped interviews with British people who lived and worked in India before Independence in 1947.
Also see [[Society reading list]]
== 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==
*[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=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://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India''] 1850 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents]. Includes vocabulary, weights and measures etc
*[httphttps://books.googlearchive.comorg/bookssearch?idquery=qvkNAAAAYAAJtitle%3A%28Bradshaw%27s+through+India*%29&printsecsort=frontcover 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'A Handbook for s railway &c. through route and overland guide to India: Being an Account , 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].*:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fZQDAAAAQAAJ7ARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA17 PR10-IA1 ''Bradshaw's Railway &c. Through Route and Overland Guide Illustrated Hand-Book to India, Egyptthe Madras Presidency, and China; or The Traveller's Manual…the Central Provinces of India''] 1861 1864 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/bradshaws-madras-1864/page/n21/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version 1864]. :[http://solobooks.bodleiangoogle.ox.ac.ukcom/primo-explore/fulldisplaybooks?docidid=oxfaleph014127987N30DAAAAQAAJ&contextpg=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_OX&tab=local&lang=en_US 7 Digitised volumesPR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] Volume 1 is for 1858, Volume 7 is for 18691864 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/bradshaws-bombay-1864/page/n47/mode/2up Archive. University of Oxford, England Digital collectionorg 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.
*''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bengal Presidency, and Western Provinces of India'' [httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/books?id=1HwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 1860 edition], [https:details/handbkindia-eastwick1859/books.google.com.aupage/books?id=HAVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8-IA1 1864 edition] Google Books*[https:n9/mode/books.google.com.au/books?id=7ARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR10-IA1 2up ''Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Madras PresidencyThree Presidencies, and of the Central Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books*[http://booksOverland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians.googlePart I Madras.com/books?id=N30DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Part II Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Booksby 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. [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] 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 on Archive.org] (originally published 1918) Hathi Trust.**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.**Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India: [http://wwwBoth these editions are also available on Archive.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236120 Fifteenth Edition 1938] [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/462541 17th Edition.] Noteorg, not currently availablesee immediately above. *[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. *[https://archiveBall also edited the 1913 edition of ''Bradshaw's Through Routes'', see above.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".
==The Passage to India ==
The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150104214125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150129041135/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw1.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 1], archived.
*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India. [https://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://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/indiaburmaceylon00thom/page/n4 ''India, Burma, and Ceylon. Information for travellers and residents''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 1912 Archive.org.
*[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]]
==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
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150129032844/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw2.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 2], archived.
*[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==
*[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===
*[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]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150127222512/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065332/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3], archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913012017/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 tcaup.umich.edu, now archived.
*[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
*[https://www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2018/12/12/dak-banglas-their-dark-tales "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales"] by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. ''Live History India.'' "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."
*[https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/heritage/back-then-at-the-burra-bungalows-of-tea-estates/cid/1680275 "Back then, at the burra bungalows of tea estates"] by Moumita Chaudhuri 30 Dec. 2018 ''The Telegraph'' India.
*[http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=2227 "She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen"] by Katie Hickman 8 March 2020. [[BACSA]] podcast [audio]. Hickman is the author of ''She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen : the lives and times of British women in India 1600-1900''. 2019. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/17/she-merchants-buccaneers-gentlewomen-british-women-india-katie-hickman-review More about the book] Maya Jasanoff 17 May 2019 ''The Guardian''.
===FIBIS resources===
*"A Parsonage in Madras - Elizabeth Sharp’s letters" by Diana Bousfield-Wells ''FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)'' pages 38-48. She married Thomas Smith at the end of 1883. The letters from Madras were written in 1884 until she died in December 1884 following childbirth. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
*[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://books.google.com.au/books?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Englishwoman in India: Information for Ladies on their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping .... and Receipts for Indian Cookery''] by "a Lady Resident" 1864 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113 Indian Cookery page 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 Aleph Ré 1903, below. This book appears to be written by a different author.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sOlGAAAAIAAJ&pg=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, and 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]. From articles first published in the magazine ''The Bazaar''.
*[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/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.
*[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/englishbrideinin035142mbp#page/n3/mode/2up '' The English Bride in India''] by Chota Mem (Junior Memsahib, [Mrs. C. Lang]) 1909 Archive.org. The author is mentioned in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160611053842/https://gherkinstomatoes.com/2009/08/20/cooks-of-the-british-raj-in-the-shadows/ "Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments"] from Cynthia Bertelsen’s Gerkins and Tomatoes, now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianidylls00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Idylls''] by Edith E Cuthell 1890 Archive.org. Short stories by the wife of an Army Officer
:[https://archive.org/details/indianmemories00burrrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Indian Memories''] by W S Burrell and Edith E Cuthell 1893 Archive.org. [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 "Up to the Hills".
:[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]].
:[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.
*[[:Category:Sport images| Unique collection of Sport images held on Fibiwiki]]
*[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/specialsites/all/files/sc/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/specialsites/all/files/sc/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
*[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''
: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
==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.
*[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. 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/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.
==Indo-British Relations==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140928064955/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap5.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065343/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw5.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 5], archived.
==Departure and Connections==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140927011300/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap6b.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065348/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw6.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 6], archived.
*[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/voices/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.mid-day.com/photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, 1947, soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the S.S. Georgic bound for Britain] on the quayside in Mumbai, the first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence. 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 the photograph although they are unnamed. They are however sailing on the 'Georgic'
===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
: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.
*[http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=2227 Podcast [audio<nowiki>]</nowiki>: ''The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience''] by Sir David Gilmour, author, whose books include ''The Ruling Caste'' and ''The British in India''. Podcast of a [[BACSA]] lecture 5 November 2018. BACSA website.
*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
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