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==The Passage to India==
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*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/chap1.htm Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/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 [http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&uid=4345922024743697884 FIBIS Google Books Library] has books in the category "overland route"
*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]
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2001-10/1003835376 thread] discusses under age marriage.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2006-09/1158981804 thread] mentions a marriage performed by an Army Adjutant in 1809, with remarriage by a clergyman in 1812. Only the second marriage appears in the records.
*The following letter from Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, written in 1826 to the Archbishop of Canterbury sets out the situation applying to Army soldiers and permission to marry. In Church records of marriages, marriage is by licence or by banns. In India, at least in this period, marriage by banns included marriage under the conditions mentioned by Bishop Heber. From ''Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825; (With notes upon Ceylon,) an Account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India, Volume 2'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwRFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA251 Page 251] Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich ''Wild Men and Wild Beasts Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/shikarsketcheswi00browrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports''] by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders.1887 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org

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