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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/intro.htm 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.
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==Work==
[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/chap2.htm Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/intvw2.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 2]
 
==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]]
==Departure and Connections==
*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/chap6.htm Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/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.
==Miscellaneous==
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/identi~1.html "Identifying Domiciled Europeans in Colonial India: Poor Whites or Privileged Community?"] by Dorothy McMenamin ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 1, 2001. Details four formal oral histories which are lodged at University of Canterbury [N.Z.] Library.*The [[University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies]] has a collection of oral histories and home videos, as detailed in this [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6947170.ece Times On Line] article. Access the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/audio.html Oral History Collection]. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.*This link from [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, available from [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Mehtars+and+Marigolds&x=14&y=23 Amazon.co.uk]. This [http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/entertainment/Bath-India-8211/article-1540735-detail/article.html link] also discusses the book. 
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