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*[http://www.veritas.ie/Books/Social_Issues/General-j/The_Curious_Mind/9781847302007/details3.aspx An Indian Boyhood: Spike Milligan recalls growing up in India in the 1920s] (www.veritas) Scroll down half way. There is a brief mention of Poona and Rangoon in this [http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Spike%20Milligan.htm interview] , scroll down towards the end. An obituary from the [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/spike-milligan-729787.html Independent] refers briefly to his time in Poona and his father, a sergeant- major in the Royal Artillery.
*Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapekar_brothers Chapekar brothers] gives details of the 1896-1897 bubonic plague epidemic in Poona, and the murder of W C Rand, I. C. S, Chairman of the Special Plague Committee
*[http://www.deccancollegepune.ac.in/museum_maratha_history.asp Maratha History Museum at the Deccan College, Pune]
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