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==Guides==
*''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]
*[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*[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
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''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''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''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 II Bombay''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*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] 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=BpSIF9J3SR0&sns=gp Husband-Hunting in the Raj] YouTube video (interview). Anne de Courcy's account of the Fishing Fleet that sent girls to the Raj to hook husbands. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lc6gb BBC Radio Asian Network] interview by Nihal broadcast 1 August 2012
*[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://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
*[http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/onmyplate/entry/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. [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] "...a system of cooling that used the roots of a type of jungle grass called khus-khus that, she noted was "collected on account of their aromatic smell, to form thatch tatties, or screens for the doors and windows.""
===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
===Historical Books Online===
**[http://books.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]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesofsocial015334mbp#page/n1/mode/2up/ ''Sketches of Social Life in India''] CT Buckland: 1884 considers the lives of differing sectors of society. Source: Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/156/mode/2up ''Glimpses of Old Bombay''] by James Douglas, JP has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at Archive.org.
