Life in India

The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website 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

Also see Society reading list

The Passage to India

Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1 LSU Interviews, Chapter 1

Work

Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2 LSU Interviews, Chapter 2

Life in the Bungalows

• 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
• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3 LSU Interviews, Chapter 3

Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field

Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4 LSU Interviews, Chapter 4

Indo-British Relations

Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5 LSU Interviews, Chapter 5

Departure and Connections

• Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6 LSU Interviews, Chapter 6
• "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. The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 9, Number 1, 2006

Miscellaneous

• 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 Times On Line article