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Life in India

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:Access the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/ Oral History Collection]. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read.
:Access the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/films/ Home video Collection]. Approximately 50 individual collections totalling in the region of 80 hours of footage, taken between 1911 and 1956, with probably most from the 1930s.
*[http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=2227 Podcast [audio<nowiki>]</nowiki>: ''The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience''] by Sir David Gilmour, author, whose books include ''The Ruling Caste'' and ''The British in India''. Podcast of a [[BACSA]] lecture 5 November 2018. BACSA website.
*The San Francisco Minstrels. David Carson and Tom Brown organized a company which toured India 1861-1866. [http://www.circushistory.org/Cork/BurntCork3.htm Circus Historical Society: Brown’s Burnt Cork Activity]. Scroll down to the entry Carson and Brown.
*[https://archive.org/stream/harryminersameri00mineiala#page/6/mode/2up Theatres in Ceylon, British Burma and India] pages 6-8 ''Harry Miner's American dramatic directory for the season of 1884-85''. Archive.org
**[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvkgGofjDzi-fROZSBN3p-CKeaZIc-Ue India on Film: 1899-1947] A collection of short YouTube videos from the British Film Institute.
***[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxNiEy2H5Ho&index=71&list=PLXvkgGofjDzi-fROZSBN3p-CKeaZIc-Ue Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1931]. Includes "Crossing the river in inflated goat skins" at 0.42 min.
 
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*[[Means of Transport‎]]
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