29,512
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
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/specialsites/all/files/sc/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.
Also see [[Society reading list]]
The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150104214125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150129041135/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw1.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 1], archived.
*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India. [https://michelhoude.com/Waghorm/ImagesLTW/@WArticle.htm MichelHoude.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140918003016/http://www.mta.hu/fileadmin/szekfoglalok/000914.pdf “Three British Travellers to the Middle East and India in the Early Seventeenth Century”] by Clifford Edmund Bosworth (April 2005?) Hungarian Academy of Sciences, archived. It includes details of Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who walked from Aleppo in Syria to India, via Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, arriving at Amjer, Rajasthan in July 1615 after a ten month walk.
==Work==
* Camping out in the country with the Collector of Kaira (Bombay Presidency) 1875 from [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023218955#page/n43/mode/2up ''Modern India and the Indians : being a series of impressions, notes and essays''], page 30 by Sir Monier Monier-Williams 1891 Archive.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 2], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150129032844/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw2.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 2], archived.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-openpage/article2443690.ece "How our British rulers 'legalised' bribery"] The Hindu.com
===Historical books online===
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/03/our-hero-is-a-sportsman-british-domestic-interiors-in-19th-century-india.html "‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India"] British Library blog “Untold Lives” 05 March 2014. Includes three images by William Tayler from his 1842 publication ''Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians'', one of which "The Young Lady's Toilet" is also available in [http://blogs.bl.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef01b8d2ac7fe2970c-pi another BL blog]
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/a-daughter-of-the-empire "A daughter of the Empire": Edwardian life in India, 1901-03" ] on website of Kings College London, looks at the life of Beryl White, a member of the British ruling class. Her father, John Claude White, was the first British Political Officer in Sikkim, refer [[Photographer#Books|Photographer - Books]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150127222512/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap3.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 3], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065332/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw3.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 3], archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913012017/http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/workfolio/glover.pdf "“A Feeling of Absence from Old England:” the Colonial Bungalow"] by William J Glover ''Home Cultures'' Volume 1 Issue 1 pages 61-82 2004 tcaup.umich.edu, now archived.
*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/landourcookbooks.html "The Landour Community Centre Cookbooks: From the 1920s to the 1960s and the present"] by Katharine (Kittu) Parker Riddle. An article dated 1 July 2003
*[[:Category:Sport images| Unique collection of Sport images held on Fibiwiki]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own3k9BJasg&feature=share Sports in British India] You Tube. Short FIBIS video of photographs of sporting events
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140928064952/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap4.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 4], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065337/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw4.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 4], archived.
*[http://pakistaniaat.org/index.php/pak/article/download/152/152 "British hunters in colonial India, 1900-1947: The Gentleman Hunter, New Technology, and Growing Conservationist Awareness"] by Fiona Natasha Mani ''Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies'' Vol. 4, No. 1 (2012) pages 69-87. Pdf download-depending on your browser, may download to your downloads folder.
*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201205A17.html English Howdah Pistols, ca. 1846] A howdah is a very large saddle, which was used on the back of an Indian elephant and these pistols were used in emergencies while hunting from an elephant. Antiques Roadshow Archives from the episode Corpus Christi (#1703) (USA) originally filmed August 4, 2012. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah_pistol Howdah pistol] Wikipedia. [http://www.acant.org.au/Articles/HowdahRifle.html Tiger Tamer: A 12-Bore Howdah Double] from the collection of Tony Orr. acant.org.au
==Indo-British Relations==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140928064955/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap5.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 5] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065343/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw5.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 5], archived.
==Departure and Connections==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140927011300/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap6b.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 6] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928065348/http://www.lib.lsu.edu:80/specialsites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw6.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 6], archived.
*[http://archive.is/OWYO Lahore: Blood on the Tracks] by William Dalrymple 1997. archive of travelintelligence.com. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120830173245/http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/lahore-blood-tracks Another archived version]). Also an episode in the 1997 TV documentary series [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568 Stones of the Raj]
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/curious.html "The Curious Exclusion Of Anglo-Indians From Mass Slaughter During The Partition Of India"]. Experiences in India During 1947 of some who went to New Zealand by Dorothy McMenamin in 'The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 9, Number 1, 2006.
*[http://www.expressandstar.com/latest/2009/03/30/bloody-memories-for-child-of-the-raj/ Bloody memories for child of the Raj] Express and Star dated 30 March 2009. Also see [[Biographies reading list]] for more details of ''Farewell Raj: Witness to End of Empire'' by Tony Hearne
*Two articles [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=490750 Partition, and Last Days of the Raj] by Duncan Allan. The first article is dated May 1, 2014 .Scroll down to the 2nd post dated September 17 2012. The author was in the 2/1st Gurkha Rifles at the time of Partition and witnessed many dead bodies . Koi-Hai website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116110725/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letter-massacres-at-the-partition-of-india-1246366.html Letter: Massacres at the partition of India] by F B Manley Wednesday, 20 August 1997 independent.co.uk
*[http://www.mid-day.com/photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, 1947, soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the S.S. Georgic bound for Britain] on the quayside in Mumbai, the first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence. mid-day.com. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxckDsWPko Video: British Troops Leave India 1947] British Pathe on YouTube . This video appears to be of the same troops as in the photograph although they are unnamed. They are however sailing on the 'Georgic'
