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*"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/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India''] by George Francklin Atkinson. Third edition (1860?) First published 1858. Archive.org. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, in the Umballa Division
*"Anglo Indian Society", ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal'' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwccAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA232 Part 1] page 232 of ''1860 Part 3'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h9cRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221 Part 2], page 221 of ''1861 Part 2''
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=uEUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book: comprising numerous directions for plain wholesome cookery, both Oriental and English, with much miscellaneous matter, answering all general purposes of reference connected with household affairs likely to be immediately required by families, messes, and private individuals, residing at the presidencies or out-stations''] by R. Riddell 5th edition 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Englishwoman in India: Information for Ladies on their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping .... and Receipts for Indian Cookery''] by "a Lady Resident" 1864 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FjcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113 Indian Cookery page 113]
*[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/behindbungalow00aitkiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Behind the Bungalow''] by EHA [Edward Hamilton Aitken] 10th edition 1911. First published 1889. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/flowersandgarden031469mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Flowers And Gardens In India: A Manual for Beginners''] by Mrs R Temple Wright 1902 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/intentandbungal00cuthgoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''In Tent and Bungalow''] by Edith E Cuthell 1892 Archive.org. Short stories by the wife of an Army Officer
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/mygardenincityg00cutgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory''] by Edith E Cuthell 1905 Archive.org. Memories of life as an Army Officer’s wife in Lucknow.
*[https://archive.org/stream/simpleadventures00dunc#page/n9/mode/2up ''The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib''] 
by Sara Jeannette Duncan ... With illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 1893 Archive.org
==Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field==
 
*[[:Category:Sport images| Unique collection of Sport images held on Fibiwiki]]
*[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===
**[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.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=gAZCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Oriental Field Sports Volume 1''] by Captain Thomas Williamson 1807 Google Books. With coloured illustrations. [http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/dcd/page.php?title=&action=next&record=8277 ''Oriental Field Sports Volume 2''] with [http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/dcd/ofs/index_3.htm Plates Volume 2] 1808 chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au
*''Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America'' by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth03bakegoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume I] [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth00unkngoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume II]
*[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://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the [[Forestry|Indian Forest Service]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/soneporereminisc00abborich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Sonepore reminiscences. Years 1840-96''] by Harry E Abbott 1896. Archive.org Horse racing at Sonepore (a native state, South-West Frontier of Bengal, now Orissa state)
*[http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:AUXVkIWqoF4J:epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/TfC/article/download/673/602+%22Anglo+Indian%22+Railways&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjPtoyzxDCzJGtncS2bWDpFuS-I4aNWOtzZA-0G4dscxkpfqHkLrPU6UNzn88LNLw5uhjEfrhTSbQ_Pi27Al4Gx2l-3CKK8SoWl7MZnTxPgTiJ4zsweZnDCmf9s_R0Rr7VzXUF7&sig=AHIEtbRqAXoTs3mUO1IjVM_6VMwtQ4sc0w "Race, Railways and Domiciled Europeans"] by Deborah Nixon ''Transforming Cultures eJournal'', Vol 3, No 1 February 2008
*[http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Ajmer_1933_1940(1).htm Ajmer 1933-40] Life in a railway colony from [http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] by Eugene Blanchette born 1933, from his website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120103153846/http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/category/grandpas-story / Grandpa’s Story]. Percy Morris joined the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]] (MSM) as an Assistant Locomotive Superintendent in 1925. He became Chief Mechanical Engineer, and later Director of the Railway Board, until he retired in 1955. Blog by his granddaughter of 1986 interviews in 15 parts. Scroll to the bottom for part 1 Indian service commences part 2.
==Death==
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