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===Religious Orders===
*The [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsor1999/csjb01.html Clewer Sisters] were Sisters from the Anglican Community of St John the Baptist from Clewer (near Windsor in England) who came to Calcutta in 1881. This [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/books/raj.html link] describes the book ''Sisters of the Raj'' by Valerie Bonham, (which is available at the British Library), [http://books.google.com/books?id=JkrFAAAACAAJ No Preview Google Books]<br>
They were involved with nursing at the Calcutta General Hospital and also with nurse training through the Calcutta Hospital Nurses Institution, which was based at the Lady Canning Home.
*The book All Saints Sisters of the Poor: an Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Mumm published 2001 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XNS_KBCil2AC&pg=PR14] Limited View Google Books] indicates this order was in India from 1878
*The book A History of Christianity (Volume VI) the Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia 1800-1914 [http://books.google.com/books?id=ET8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA141 Limited View Google Books] indicates that the Wantage Sisters ([http://www.csmv.co.uk/WantageOverseas.htm Community of St Mary the Virgin, Wantage]), an Anglican Order were in Bombay and Poona from 1874
==Military Nurses in India==
