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===Other aspects of society===
* Atkinson, George Francklin
'''Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India''.
{Online version] 3rd ed. London: Day, 18591860
Captain Atkinson of the HEIC Bengal Engineers was one of the most popular authors writers of his time in British India. This illustrated collection of 40 humorous anecdotes about various British types such as the 'our colonel' and 'our doctor's wife', standard places such as 'our cook room', and classic events like 'our pig-sticking' can be accessed at [http://www.archive.org/details/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft Archive.org]. This page from ''Ballads of Burma - Anecdotal : anecdotal and Analytical analytical'' by Oolay (2007 (reprint of a 1912 bookedition) at [http://books.google.com/books?id=4qKEoh7i47EC&pg=RA1-PT6 Limited View Google Books] gives more details of George Atkinson.
