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*[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
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116021153/http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=490750 Last Days of the Raj] by Duncan Allan. Scroll down to the 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/opinionvoices/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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116111055/http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=1672 Maxine Steller’s Bombay]. Born in 1930, daughter of Bill Taylor who was in the Bombay Police Force, they lived in quarters behind the various police stations he was assigned to. She describes her early life, including becoming the female singer in a band, and the conditions before and after independence, until she left in 1950 for Australia. tajmahalfoxtrot.com*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130721143247/http://www.britains-smallwars.com/India/last.html Sunset on the Raj: The Last to Leave] The last British troops to leave India were the [[13th Regiment of Foot|1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry]] on 28 February 1948 at Bombay. britains-smallwars.com
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