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*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
*[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/lF0dzzkkqGbwlAN5cTGR8M/Quick-Lit--Post-facto.html The Dak Bungalow] 19 October 2012 livemint.com
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India''] by George Francklin Atkinson. Third edition (1860?) First published 1858. Archive.org. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, in the Umballa Division
*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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