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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VNFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The European in India: From a Collection of Drawings''] by Charles Doyley with descriptions by Captain Thomas Williamson 1813 Google Books. Contains many coloured plates such as [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VNFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR16-IA3#v=onepage&q&f=false "Plate XVII An European Lady and her family, attended by an ayah, or nurse"]. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VNFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 List of the coloured plates]. Probably the publication ''The Costume and Customs of Modern India'', published 1813, from a collection of drawings by Charles Doyley and descriptions by Captain Thomas Williamson, has the same content.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xa5WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Manual of Gardening for Western and Southern India''] by Robert Riddell 2nd Edition 1856 Google Books
*''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates, or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India'' by George Francklin Atkinson, with Forty Chapters, each with an Illustration (which may rotated in the Hathi Trust Digital Library versions) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 1st Edition 1858] Hathi Trust, [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3021302?urlappend=%3Bseq=8 2nd Edition 1859] Hathi Trust, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZFxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT5 3rd Edition 1860] Google Books. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, and from 1854 was Executive Engineer of the Umballa Division
** An inflated sheepskin, usually used as a water-carrier's bag: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=121 Illustration: Our Bath] [swimming pool] with a description on [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=124 page 124] of an inflated sheep’s hide, used for fun in the pool. Hathi Trust. Note: Illustration can be rotated.
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsinind01langgoog ''Wanderings in India: and other sketches of life in Hindostan''] by John Lang 1859 Archive.org. Missing the one image. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003515A British Library Digital Collection]. The one image is rotatable. Most of the chapters first appeared in Charles Dickens’s magazine, ''Household Words''. The author was proprietor of a newspaper, the ''Mofussilite'', see [[Journalist]], a novelist, and had practiced as a barrister.
*"Anglo Indian Society", ''Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal'' [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwccAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA232 Part 1] page 232 of ''1860 Part 3'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h9cRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221 Part 2], page 221 of ''1861 Part 2''
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=uEUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book: comprising numerous directions for plain wholesome cookery, both Oriental and English, with much miscellaneous matter, answering all general purposes of reference connected with household affairs likely to be immediately required by families, messes, and private individuals, residing at the presidencies or out-stations''] by R. Riddell 5th edition 1860 Google Books
