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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/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]]
==The Passage to India==
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*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/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.
*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India [http://michelhoude.com/Waghorm/ImagesLTW/@WArticle.htm MichelHoude.com]
==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
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw2.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 2]
==Marriage==
==Life in the Bungalows==
*[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/history/archives/india India Album] Kings College, London . "'A daughter of the Empire': Edwardian life in India, 1901-03", 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]]
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3]
*[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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/flowersandgarden031469mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Flowers And Gardens In India: A Manual for Beginners''] by Mrs R Temple Wright 1902 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]
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/yacht-club.html Royal Bombay Yacht Club 1910] Postcard from Images 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.
==Indo-British Relations==
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap5.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5] *[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw5.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 5]
==Departure and Connections==
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap6.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw6.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 6]
*[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.
