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Biographical

• Allen, Charles

Duel In the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa by Charles Allen (2004)

• Bennett, Mary

Who was Dr Jackson? : two Calcutta families, 1830-55. London: BACSA, 2002

• J M Morris (1932)

A Nursing Sister in Baluchistan No Preview Google Books. Experiences at a mission hospital in Quetta from 1921.

• Webster Anthony 2007

The Richest East India Merchant: the Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836 preview googlebooks. John Palmer ran an 'agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade.

General History

• Grey, C.

European Adventurers Of Northern India 1785 to 1849 by C. Grey first published in 1929 and reprinted by the Languages Department, Punjab, Patiala, in 1970, contains biographical sketches of over one hundred Europeans who came to or served in the Punjab during Sikh times. Available as Limited View Google Books Index Bibliography

• Pick up your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India by William Pennington 2003. ]

• Details of the book Delhi Durbar 1911, The Complete Story by Sunil Raman and Lt Col Rohit Agarwal, Roli Books 2011. The Pioneer Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Locations

• Bhasin Raaja

Simla - the summer capital of British India. Reprinted Rupa and Co 2011. Review in Deccan Herald

• Yelland Zoe

Traders and Nabobs: The British in Cawnpore 1765-1857 by Zoe Yalland 1987 and Boxwallahs : the British in Cawnpore, 1857-1901 by Zoë Yalland 1994. A description of the latter book is given in this link

• Mohanty Sachidananda (Editor)

Travel Writing and the Empire, edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Katha, 2003, p. 185, Rs. 250. Details of the book can be found at Narratives of the Self hindu.com

• Harfield Alan

Bencoolen: A History on the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825 by Alan Harfield 1995. Read about the book here.

Military History

• The First Anglo Sikh War: The Campaign and Battlefield Guide. Post by Mark Simner, Administrator of the Victorian Wars Forum regarding the book The First Anglo-Sikh War by Amarpal S. Sidhu. "This is an excellent book and deserves a rare five out of five star rating which is well earned!" The book includes new scale battlefields maps and GPS Co-ordinates.
• The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849-1947 by Timothy Robert Moreman , Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London Palgrave Macmillan, December 1998 ISBN: 978-0-312-21703-7 Look Inside includes Contents
• Duty & Fidelity, The Indian Army August 1914 – 1922 by Chris Kempton. In Three Parts (Part III being 2 volumes) (total four volumes). Part I: Divisions, Part II: Brigades Part III is in 2 sections: section 1 covers "Deployments" Section 2 of Part III is maps. Military Press 2009. Available in hardback and softback. a total (not including the maps volume) of about 350 pages of approximately A4 size.
• The Indian Army on the Western Front: India's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War by George Morton-Jack Cambridge University Press, 2014 Preview Google Books
• With the M.T. in Mesopotamia by Brevet Lieut. Col . F. W. Leland, R.A.S.C.. Published Naval & Military Press. The author was an officer in Mechanical Transport in 1916-1918. "An account of the work of Mechanised Units in Mesopotamia , vital to understanding supply problems in a harsh terrain".
• The British Library has the book The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia compiled by Lieut.-Col. L. J. Hall under the direction of Brigadier-General R. H. W. Hughes. [With plates.] published London 1921.
• The Indian Army 1939-47: Experience and Development. The Second World War Military Operations Research Group
• Hughes, David, David A. Ryan and Steve Rothwell.

The British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, Volume 8: The Indian Army, Part One: The Indian Army in the West
. Nafziger Collection, 2005

The British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, Volume 9: The Indian Army, Part Two: The Indian Army in the East, 1939-43
. Nafziger Collection, 2006

The British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, Volume 10: The Indian Army, Part Three: The Indian Army in the East, 1944-45
. Nafziger Collection, 2008

Reviews by Bill Stone: Volume 8 5 March 2006, Volume 9 21 January 2007, Volume 10 4 January 2009. stonebooks.com (retrieved on 15 April 2014).

• Graham F Reed was a junior officer in the Royal Signals Corps in his early twenties, who was a Signals Officer with a Mountain Gun Regiment based at Razmak in Waziristan in 1945-47. His book is Walks in Waziristan, with an extract In action from Walks in Waziristan. The first two chapters are available from Preview Google Books
• "Road to Kabul" by Brian Robson 1986 ISBN 1862271968
• The Maharajas' Paltans: A History of the Indian State Forces 1888-1948 by Richard Head and Tony McClenaghan. New Delhi United Service Institution of India Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2013. (in two volumes, 1081 pages). ‪ISBN‬ ‪9788173048883‬. Provides hitherto unknown information on battle and campaign honors, awards won by the Forces, (initially known as Imperial Service Troops as well as maps, color plates, and detailed notes on uniforms and insignia. Google Books

Regimental histories

• History Of The Guides 1846-1922 originally published 1938, which is available as a reprint.
• History Of The Guides 1922-1947 by Lieut. General Sir George McMunn originally published 1950, which is available as reprint.

• Cloughley Brian Trumpeters: The Story of the Royal Artillery's Boy Trumpeters Woodfield Publishing Ltd 2008(UK), includes training and military service in India

Miscellaneous

• Allen, Charles

The Buddha and the Sahibs (2002). A review by William Dalrymple, author of the White Mughals, in the Guardian, states “As Charles Allen shows in his book, under Sir William Jones, the Asiatic Society of Bengal became the scholarly nerve centre that brought together all the different amateur enthusiasts busily working at uncovering the deepest roots of India's lost pre-Islamic history. In the society's Calcutta premises were collated reports sent in from a huge range of eccentric figures working away at translating Buddhist scrolls or ancient rock inscriptions, Gandharan coins or Tibetan mythologies, far separated from each other in remote outposts between the highest peaks of the Himalayas in Tibet and Nepal, through the arid plains of the Deccan to the thickest jungles of 18th-century Burma and Ceylon.” Also reviewed in the Spectator and available from Amazon.co.uk.

• Bevan, Amanda (2006)576 pages.

Tracing your Ancestors in The National Archives is stated by The National Archives to be the only exhaustive guide to TNA’s holdings. It is to be noted that Chapter 8 details 'Births, marriages and deaths of Britons overseas or in the armed services'

• Broadbent James, Rickard Suzanne and Steven Margaret

Review by William Dalrymple of the book India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850 by James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard and Margaret Steven 2003

• Spencer, William (2008)

Army Records: A Guide for Family Historians. Mainly about records in the TNA and the India Office at the British Library. Contains chapters 'Royal Artillery' and 'The British Army in India' and the 'Indian Army'.

• Thomas, Noel (Editor)

Footprints on the Track, Anglo-Indian Railway Memories (published by Anglo-Link 2013). For information about this book see "Of the Railways and the lives inextricably linked to it" October 8, 2013 The Hindu Chennai (Madras).

• Turnbull Alexander

A book has been written called Walers : Australian Horses Abroad by Yarwood, A. T. (Alexander Turnbull), 1927-2002. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1989.: ISBN: 0522843859

• Details of the book Constructing the 'Brother': Freemasonry, Empire, and Nationalism in India, 1840—1925, by Vahid Jalil Fozdar, in two volumes, University Of California, Berkeley, 2001. Freemasonry contributed to Indian nationalism in four main ways. The author is Associate Professor, California State University, East Bay.

• The Autobiography of a Wanderer In England and Burma: Memoirs of a Former Mayor of Rangoon by Charles Haswell Campagnac, published 2011, with more details here. The author was a lawyer born 1886 in India, with a French Huguenot ancestor. Covers the period to World War 2, including the bombing by the Japanese and subsequent flight to India.

Photography

• From Kashmir to Kabul by Omar A. Khan (2002). The harsh beauty of this region has been luring photographers since the Victorian age, the most famous of whom were two Irishmen William Baker and John Burke. The book chronicles their early days in Peshawar and their move to Murree, the Himalayan hill station on the border of Kashmir. It follows their documenting of the Afghan Wars, some of the earliest war photography, and their return to the plains of Lahore, where they continued to photograph the region’s people and landscape.
  Limited View Google Books . Read the Preface to the book (now archived) by F S Aijazuddin, which contains biographical details. Read a review of the book by Sophie Gordon in History of Photography 2003.

• In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet - Bhutan - Nepal - Sikkim A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908 by Kurt Meyer (2006). John Claude White (1853-1918) was a civil engineer by education, a colonial administrator by profession, and a photographer by vocation. Read a review (pdf) of the book which contains biographical information, by Mark Turin of the University of Cambridge. John Claude White was the author of Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the north-east frontier, 1887-1908 published 1909 Archive.org

• Sepia Prints: Memoirs of a Missionary by Viola Wiebe and Marilyn Wiebe Dodge (1990) is one of the few books to highlight the large amount of photographic material available from Christian archives and missionaries active in colonial India. Limited View Google Books. See also Missionary.

• The book Early British Photography in India, published 1992. It was originally published as History of Photography Volume 16, No. 4 1992 pages 299-413