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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books. [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomaug05.html Book of the Month] by Kings College London Library
*[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-the-greatest-escape---war-394421 The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4,000 miles from Siberian death camp] 16 May 2009 mirror.co.uk. Witold Glinski's escape to freedom in India
==Work==
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996 [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press] online edition.
*Van Ingen and Van Ingen were master taxidermists who processed many tigers, leopards and other animals. For further details, refer [[Mysore]], where their factory was located.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own3k9BJasg&feature=share Sports in British India] You Tube. Short FIBIS video of photographs of sporting events
===Historical Books Online===
*[[Polish Refugees in India 1942-1948]]
*[[POW Camps in India]]
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