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The structure, and some of the contents, of this article follows the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013402/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intro.htm British Voices from South Asia], now archived, which contains material from an exhibition which was held in Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, April 8 to August 6, 1996. The exhibition marked the acquisition by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU of a series of taped interviews with British people who lived and worked in India before Independence in 1947.
*Videos. [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-mutra-cup-meeting-aka-the-muttra-cup-meeting/query/cup The Muttra Cup Meeting: India’s Largest Pig-Sticking Contest 1934] 1 min 33sec preview British Pathe. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120915081309/http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/3745 The Kadir Cup 1934] Colonial Film, (archived version) silent footage 9:50min, original perhaps now in the collection of [http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=8786 Bristol Museums Archives], although seemingly not in the catalogue. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCi1mdGKCt4 La Kadir Cup] 1938 Commentary in Italian. YouTube
*[http://www.shakariconnection.com/tiger-hunting-books.html Bibliography of Tiger Hunting Books] shakariconnection.com
===Historical Books Onlinebooks 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>
==Railway Life==
*[http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/ Railways of the Raj] Exploring Railway Life in Anglo India
*[http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/railway/index.html ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide. Jamalpur E.I.R.
**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm Among the Railway Folk] from Kipling.org.uk
*[http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Ajmer_1933_1940(1).htm Ajmer 1933-40] Life in a railway colony from [http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] by Eugene Blanchette born 1933, from his website.
*[http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/673/602 "Race, Railways and Domiciled Europeans"] by Deborah Nixon ''Transforming Cultures eJournal'', Vol 3, No 1 February 2008. UTS ePress, University of Technology, Sydney. Click on “Fullscreen” to view the article.
*[http://mungerjamalpur.com/2010/06/15/i-do-not-think-of-jamalpur-as-a-city-i-think-of-it-as-a-railway-colony-bungalow-dwellings-and-happy-valley/ "I do not think of Jamalpur as a city..I think of it as a railway colony …bungalow dwellings …and Happy Valley"] by Yvonne Eva Le Fort June 15, 2010 ''MungerJamalpur''. Railway Colony life c 1943-1947.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3058/page/n267/mode/2up ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling, pages 255-282 ''From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Volume II'' 1938, first published 1888. Jamalpur E.I.R.
**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm "Among the Railway Folk"] from Kipling.org.uk
==Indo-British Relations==
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