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A collection of miscellaneous tips and tricks not covered in other articles that might help you with your research.
==Access some subscription websites with a Library Card==
*This [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/glossary.htm Glossary] is from the [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/ British Empire] website
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Glossary] to ''The History of the British Empire in India'' by Edward Thornton 1859. Google Books
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130127010330/http://www.tapmal.com/anglo/site/pg/vocab A-I Vocabulary: A lexicon of long-forgotten Anglo-Indian words] www.tapmal.com, now an archived webpage
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20091027093430/http://geocities.com/faskew/Colonial/Glossary/ColGlossary.htm Askew's Glossary of
Victorian Colonial Terminology] includes a section on 'British Colonial Military Terms and Soldier Slang' and 'India and the Northwest Frontier'. Now an archived website.
*Later publications include ''Sahibs, Nabobs and Boxwallahs: a dictionary of the words of Anglo-India'' by Ivor Lewis and ''Hanklyn-Janklin'', a glossary of Indian English, by Nigel Hankin who is described in the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1574988/Nigel-Hankin.html ''The Telegraph'' obituary] of 9 Jan 2008
:1892–1893: 15
:Source: B.E. Dadachanji. ''History of Indian Currency and Exchange'', 3rd enlarged ed. (Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co, 1934), p. 15.
==Send money to India==
Moneygram, ICICI Bank and Western Union have been suggested as means of sending money to India for the purchase of certificates etc<ref> India List thread [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-05/1337238412 Sending money to India] dated May 2012</ref>
==Translate from another language into English==
*Convert a pdf URL to a docs.google version using [https://docs.google.com/viewer Google docs Viewer]. This provides an alternative way to view a pdf, with thumbnail pages. On some browsers you may be able to scroll through more quickly.
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