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==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
*''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] (originally published 1918) HathiTrust. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02497 Twelth Edition, 1926] Archive.org. , [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].**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.*[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. Ball also edited the 1913 edition of ''Bradshaw's Through Routes'', see above.
*Books in following sections may include initial chapters which could be classified as '"Guides".
===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==
*[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''.
*[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/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).
