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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3YVPArbsBs Interview: The Fishing Fleet. Anne de Courcy] Anne de Courcy paints a fascinating portrait of 'husband-hunting in the Raj the subject of her new book. (host Paul French) Adelaide Week, March 2013 YouTube
*British women married to Indian men.
:It is interesting to note that two of the following three couples met in Britain when the future husband was studying.:*Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali was English lady of high social rank, who married in England c 1816. See Historical books online.
:*[http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/104/ Mabel Henderson and her husband Dr. Bharat Chandra Ghosh, Indian Medical Service] who were married in Scotland in 1905, including a photograph dated 1928. indianmemoryproject.com
:*[http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/20/ Photograph: Shanta Bhandarkar as a baby with her English Mother Louisa Bishop, and father Dr. Vasudev Sukhtankar Bombay 1910] indianmemoryproject.com
:*Scottish Mona Knight met her future husband an Indian engineer born 1912, while he was studying in London. They travelled back to Bombay in June 1937, (or possibly 1936 per other posts) where she was told it was not done to marry an Indian.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090513043218/http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/back-in-bombay “Back in Bombay”] “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)”</ref> However the marriage took place in a Moslem marriage ceremony.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120729044008/http://nstyabji.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/the-wedding “The Wedding] “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)”</ref>
*[http://www.royalengineers.ca/femnkid.html On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army], a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.
*[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/home.html The Army Children Archive (TACA)] contains information about British Army children and wives, with themes such as [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/accomm.html Accomodation] and [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/move.html On the Move]. There are references to India in a number of the themes.
*[http://www.krrcassociation.com/index.php/association/20-swift-bold-stories/139-goddard-childhood-memories-of-india "Childhood Memories of India"] by John Goddard, KRRC. KRRC Association. The author was born in 1923 and lived most of the time until 1933 in India, in cantonments in Lucknow and Calcutta. His father was officers’ mess sergeant in a battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (the 60th Rifles).
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150609081320/http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43 Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. khyberlodge.co.uk, now archived. [http://www.pakhtun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=36%3Ahistory&id=88%3Apeshawar-remembered-walter-reeve&Itemid=90 Another version] www.pakhtun.com, and [http://web.archive.org/web/20090829075530/http://geocities.com/scn_pk/peshawar_remembered.html another version] (archived). The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. "Memories of Murree" also by Walter Reeve. Details of a visit to Murree in 1936 from the author’s father’s memoirs, and the author’s memory of visits in 1948 and 1949. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125548/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-06-11-2005/foo.htm Part 1], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125717/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-13-11-2005/foo.htm Part 2], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306062112/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-20-11-2005/foo.htm Part 3] Scroll down. Jang Newspapers 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.
*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108461/page/n7 ''Observations on the Mussulmauns of India : descriptive of their manners, customs, habits and religious opinion made during a twelve years' residence in the immediate society''] by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali. Edited with notes and an introduction by W. Crooke 1917. The authors background is unclear, other than that she was an English lady of high social rank, who married in England c 1816, see the [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108461/page/n11 Introduction]. Page ix. Originally published 1832. [https://archive.org/details/observationsonm02aligoog/page/n3 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/observationsonm01aligoog/page/n4 Volume II]. Archive.org.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Yjk9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA12 "Anglo Indian Life: Marriages, Elopements and Disappointments"], page 12 ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies'', Volume 29 1839
*[https://archive.org/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/n37/mode/1up The author’s English maid receives many marriage proposals. The photograph system] pages 15-16 ''In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains'' by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming, with Illustrations 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in ''From the Hebrides to the Himalayas''.
===Historical Books Online===
*See '''[[Hunting accounts online]]''' for books about hunting, usually called Sport or Shikar, including tiger hunting and pigsticking.
*Two chapters from ''Field Sports in India 1800-1947'' by Major General J.G Elliott with two chapters on pigsticking by C. R. Temple. 1973. Transcriptions of Chapter 4. "The Early Days" and Chapter 5. "The Tent Clubs".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151025171747/https://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-i.html "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt I"], [https://web.archive.org/web/20151025222225/https://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-ii.html "Hog Sticking Raj Style! Pt II"] The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles.</ref>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/156/mode/2up ''Glimpses of Old Bombay''] by James Douglas, JP, 1900, has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53429 ''John Barleycorn Bahadur: Old Time Taverns in India''] by Major H Hobbs [Harry] 1944 (2nd edition with Index, first published 1943?) Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Some other, but not all, publications by this author, published in Calcutta, are available at the [[British Library]]. [http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1196763 Author details] in photograph description from Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland.
