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This online bookstore is in association with Amazon.com. There are four ways of using it.Please note that books may be purchased online through the first three sections. I have included listings for several popular books that are now out of print, as you may be able to obtain them second-hand, or from a library. The books listed in the fourth section are not available from Amazon, but from other suppliers. The fifth section includes links to other bookstores, some of which allow online ordering.
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Ethnic Groups, including Anglo-Indians, Jews and Armenians.
Government, including railways and maritime services.
Health, including mental health.
Literature and Language
Locations, specific locations within India.
Military, including EIC Armies and British Army.
Mutiny of 1857
Other, anything that doesn't fit into another category!
Personal History
Religion, including missionaries.
Social History
Women
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The following are a number of books related to the subject of family history in India, in which you might be interested. Click on the individual links below to go to Amazon.com's listing of the book. You are not obligated to buy.
Most of the books in this list have been recommended by one or more members of the INDIA-L Mailing List .
See also Respected Citizens: The History of Armenians in Singapore and Malaysia below.
Poor Relations : The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833
As early as the 1830s Eurasians (later called Anglo-Indians) already exceeded the number of British civilians in colonial India. At the time of India's independence they outnumbered all British residents. Yet there has been little historical attention to the development of this mixed-race community and the problems which it faced. This book examines the critical formative years of the Anglo-Indian community 1773-1833.
Who Are the Jews of India
By Nathan Katz. Publication date November 2000. Of all the Diaspora communities, the Jews of India are among the least known and most interesting.
This readable study, full of vivid details of everyday life, looks in depth at the religious life of the
Jewish community in Cochin, the Bene Israel from the remote Konkan coast near Bombay, and the
Baghdadi Jews, who migrated to Indian port cities and flourished under the British Raj.
Ruby of Cochin : An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers
By Ruby Daniel.
Armenians in India
By Mesrovb Jacob Seth. Hardcover edition (1993).
Building the Railways of the Raj 1850-1900
by Ian J.Kerr and Lan J.Kerr. Paperback Edition. Some 25,000 miles of railways were constructed in India from 1850 to 1900, involving a
considerable investment of British capital, their railway technology, the presence of a small number
of their engineers, skilled workmen, and the mobilization of millions of Indian workers. This book
represents the first, wide-scale examination of this subject in modern times.
A Biographical Index of the East India Maritime Service Officers 1600-1834
By Anthony Farrington (Editor). Publication date November 2000.
Lords of the East : The East India Company and Its Ships
By Jean Sutton. Publication date October 2000. From 1600 to 1863 the East India Company prevailed against rival European companies and
almost continual warfare to gradually win control of India and spearhead the Western penetration of
China. The author goes beyond the company's commercial exploits, the scandals of the opium trade,
and the stirring nineteenth-century Tea Clipper races to delve into the lives of its employees, East
India's peculiar organizational structure, and the technical details of its ships, the lordly East
Indiamen. She also covers the lesser-known aspects of the enterprise, such as the company's
private navy, and its contribution to the development of early steam navigation.
Dictionnaire généalogique des familles de l'Inde-française
By Lucien-Jean Bord. Paperback edition (1984).
The French in India : From Diamond Traders to Sanskrit Scholars
By Rose Vincent (Editor). Hardcover edition (1990).
Fortunes a Faire : The French in Asian Trade,1719-48
By Catherine Manning (Editor). Hardcover edition (1996).
Indika Essays in Indo-French Relations : Essays in Indo-French Relations, 1630-1976
By Jean Marie Lafont. Hardcover edition (2000).
French in India and Indian Nationalism
By K.S. Mathew (1999).
The Dutch in India
By Owen C. Kail. Hardcover edition (1981).
Precious Metals and Commerce : The Dutch East
India Company in the Indian Ocean Trade
By Om Prakash. Hardcover edition (1994).
The Portuguese in India (New Cambridge History of India Volume One)
By Michael Naylor Pearson. Hardcover edition (1988).
Albuquerque and Early Portuguese Settlement in India
By H. Morse Stephens. Hardcover reprint edition (2000).
Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India
By Henry Scholberg. Hardcover edition (1982).
The Portuguese in India
By Frederick C. Danvers. Hardcover reprint edition (1988).
Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism : The "Native Only" Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900
By James H. Mills. Publication date October 2000.
Public Health in British India : Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914 (Cambridge History of Medicine)
By Mark Harrison. Paperback edition (1994).
Public Health in British India : Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914 (Cambridge History of Medicine)
By Mark Harrison. Hardcover edition (1994).
Hobson Jobson
A paperback edition of the famous glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases.
This book has been recommended on countless occasions by members of the INDIA-L Mailing List as a source for helping researchers of family history in India understand some of the terms used in relation to their ancestors.
Hobson Jobson
A hardback edition of the famous glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases.
Literature and Nation : Britain and India, 1800-1990
By Harish Trivedi (Editor) and Richard Allen (Editor). Publication date November 2000. Literature and Nation disects the relationship between Britain and India from 1800 to 1900, using
key literary and historical texts. Books from Kim to Mansfield Park and Midnight's Children are
used in conjunction with primary source material to better understand the complicated cultural
encounters that occurred between the two countries.
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance :
South India Through European Eyes,
1250-1625
by Joan-Pau Rubis. Hardback Edition (February 2001).
A Fatal Friendship : The Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow
by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. Hardback Edition.
Masulipatam and Cambay : a history of two port towns 1500-1800
By Sinnappah Arasaratnam.
Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast 1650-1740
By Sinnappah Arasaratnam. This book is now out of print, but Amazon will query their network of used bookstores at your request.
In Search of the Forlorn Hope : A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and their Records (1640 to WWI)
This two-volume set by John Kitzmiller is an invaluable aide to persons trying to locate British Army regiments in the period up to World War I. It lists the location of every British Army regiment. If you know where your ancestor lived at a certain time, this book could help you determine his regiment.
The Colonial Wars Source Book
This book by Philip Haythornthwaite is of tremendous use for anyone with ancestors who served in the British Army in India, Africa or other parts of the former British Empire. It provides a wealth of historical data about the British Army and its countless battles and skirmishes, along with background information on the rates of pay of ordinary soldiers, how they lived and what they thought.
White Mutiny : British Millitary Culture in India
By Peter Stanley. During the "White Mutiny" of 1859-61 - the largest revolt the British army ever faced - European troops operating on behalf of the East India Company rebelled against their transfer to the service of the Queen.
Indian Army : A Grassroots Review
By N.Kunju
A Matter of Honour : An Account of the Indian Army, its Officers and Men
By Philip Mason
This is a very useful and popular book on the Indian Army. Although it is currently out of print, Amozon.com will query their network of used bookstores to attempt to locate a copy for you. Alternatively, you can contact books@webindia.com from Dehra Dun, India, who have an Indian reprint available.
The Indian Army : the garrison of British imperial India, 1822-1922
By T. A. Heathcote
Published 1974. Includes useful photos.
This book is now out of print, but if you wish to purchase it, there is a copy available by clicking on this link and then following the link to zShops.
The Great Mutiny - 1857
This useful history of the Indian Mutiny was written by Christopher Hibbert and is one of his series of books on widely-diverse historical subjects.
The Great Indian Mutinty - Colin Campbell and the Campaign at Lucknow
By Bruce Watson.
Our Bones are Scattered : The Cawnpore Massacre and the Indian Mutiny of 1857
By Andrew Ward. This book tells the story of the infamous Cawnpore massacre, where hundreds of women and children were literally butchered at the beginning of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. It goes on to describe the British response to these events and the subsequent crushing of the Mutiny.
The Raj, the Indian Mutiny, and the Kingdom of Oudh, 1801-1859
By John Pemble
Crisis of the Raj : The Revolt of 1857 Through British Lieutenants' Eyes
By Wayne G., Jr. Broehl
Although it is currently out of print, Amazon.com will query their network of used bookstores to attempt to locate a copy for you.
A Season in Hell
This book by Michael Edwardes was published in 1973 and tells the story of the defence of the Lucknow Residency. It is now out of print, but Amazon.com will query their used bookstores for a copy.
The Oxford India Companion to the ‘Indian Mutiny’ of 1857
By P.J.O. Taylor (Editor).
India Through the Lens : Photography 1840-1911
By Vidya Dehejia(Editor).
A Very Ingenious Man : Claude Martin in Early Colonial India
By Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. A biography of Claude Martin, who started the famous Martiniere schools in Lucknow and Calcutta.
Original Letters from India (1779-1815)
By Eliza Fay. The letters were sent back to her family in England and tell about her
adventures starting when her and her husband set out from England for Calcutta.
There is much historical fact in the letters which mention Warren Hastings etc. (These comments supplied by Pam Bedsor who recommends this book).
Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian
By John Beames,who was a civil servant in Bengal from 1858 to 1893. His book comes highly recommended as a candid account of life in Calcutta during that period.
Memoirs of William Hickey
By William Hickey. Edited by Alfred Spencer. This book covers life in Calcutta, 1749-1809. It was originally published in four volumes, but there is an abridged one-volume version. This book is now out of print, but Amazon will query their network of used bookstores at your request.
John Jacob of Jacobabad
By H.T. Lambrick. This book is now out of print, but Amazon will query their network of used bookstores at your request, and you will receive a response within two weeks.
Protestant Origins in India : Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 (Studies in the History of Christian Missions)
By D. Dennis Hudson. Publication date May 2000. This historical narrative of Protestantism in India records the views of the Tamil-speaking peoples
among whom German Pietists worked beginning in 1706. The views recorded here include those of
Hindus, Muslims, and Catholics, but special attention is given to Tamils who became Evangelicals.
Last Days of the Raj
By Trevor Royle. This well-written book describes the last years of the British Raj in India, before Independence in 1947.
In the Jewel in the Crown : British India, AD 1600-1905 (What Life Was Like Series, 11)
A Time-Life Book.
A History of India
By Percival Spear and Romila Thapar.
A classic book on the hisotry of India, originally published in 1965 and extensively revised and amended. It has a wealth of detail on pre-Moghul India, as well as the more usual history from the sixteenth century onwards.
Raj : The Making and Unmaking of British India
By Lawrence James.
Lawrence James, a longtime student of British military history, offers a sweeping, and wholly
absorbing, narrative account of the Raj, taking it from Clive's time to the era of Mahatma Gandhi
and the flamboyant Viscount Mountbatten, the last British viceroy of India.
A Fatal Friendship : The Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow
by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. Hardback Edition.
British social life in India, 1608-1937
By Dennis Kincaid. This book has been recommended by several members of the INDIA-L Mailing List but is now out of print.
You can have Amazon query their network of used bookstores at your request, look for the book in your library or try one of the other bookstores listed below.
The sahibs and the lotus : the British in India
By Michael Edwardes.
This book has been recommended by several members of the INDIA-L Mailing List but is now out of print.
You can have Amazon query their network of used bookstores at your request, look for the book in your library or try one of the other bookstores listed below.
Ideologies of the Raj (New Cambridge History of India)
By Thomas R. Metcalf. A newly published (1997) paperback edition of this part of the Cambridge History of India series.
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (New Cambridge History of India)
By C. A. Bayly. A reprint (1990) paperback edition of this part of the Cambridge History of India series.
The Politics of India Since Independence (New Cambridge History of India)
By Paul R. Brass. Second paperback edition (1995) of this part of the Cambridge History of India series.
The Portuguese in India (New Cambridge History of India)
By Michael Naylor Pearson. Hardcover edition (1988) of this part of the Cambridge History of India series.
Bengal : The British Bridgehead Eastern India 1740-1828 (New Cambridge History of India)
By P.J. Marshall. Hardcover edition (1988) of this part of the Cambridge History of India series.
The Cambridge History of India : South India 1750-1850
By Washbrook. Not yet published (due November 1998). This book may be ordered in advance.
The East India Company 1600-1858
By Patrick Tuck (Editor). This is a six-volume hardcover set published in 1998 by Routledge. If you’re thinking of ordering this, check the price first!
Writing Under the Raj : Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947
By Nancy L. Paxton. Not yet available: You may still order this title and it will be shipped it to you when it is released by the publisher (due Feb 1999).
Below the Peacock Fan : First Ladies of the Raj
By Marian Fowler. This title is out of print. Although it is no longer available from the publisher, Amazon will query their network of used bookstores for you.
Ruby of Cochin : An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers
By Ruby Daniel.
Compassionate Memsahibs : Welfare Activities of British Women in India 1900-1947
By Mary Ann Lind. This book presents the stories of 15 British women who voluntarily participated in reform and welfare activities in India during the first half of this century.
Original Letters from India (1779-1815)
By Eliza Fay. The letters were sent back to her family in England and tell about her
adventures starting when her and her husband set out from England for Calcutta.
There is much historical fact in the letters which mention Warren Hastings etc. (These comments supplied by Pam Bedsor who recommends this book).
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Originally published by BACSA in 1990, UNDER THE OLD SCHOOL TOPEE is now published by the author, Hazel Innes Craig, in an updated and revised edition, ISBN 0 9526997 0 2. The book has since been reprinted 4 times and contains information on ten more schools plus the reminiscences of former students, and includes up-to-date footnotes, two informative appendices ('A': 'Who are the Anglo-Indians?' and 'B': Dr Graham of Kalimpong) plus a list of useful addresses. The book costs £11.50 sterling (which includes postage & packing) to addresses in the U.K.; £12.50 sterling (incl. p&p;) to addresses abroad surface mail; £14.50 sterling (incl.p&p;) to addresses abroad air mail. Please contact the author with your orders and sterling cheques made out to Hazel Craig at 53 Hill Rise, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 7NY, United Kingdom.
This is the first published account of the Armenians from Persia who ventured to Malacca, Penang and finally Singapore from the 1800s. Detailing the dynamics of the larger community in Singapore, it also focusses on St Gregory's Church, Raffles Hotel the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid and the major Armenian commercial concerns. In particular, the true role of Ashkhen (Agnes) Joaquim in breeding Singapore's national flower is explained. The final section of the book outlines the principal Armenian families, following their fortunes and fate in this part of the world.
Based on extensive research from newspapers, church, cemetery and official records, interviews with Armenians and their descendants, this book by Nadia Wright provides a documented, social history of this hitherto neglected minority.
Published by Quacks Books, York. Available from the author at Church Farm
Bungalow, Overton, York, North Yorkshire, U.K. YO30 1YL. Revised 2nd Edition - Price
£8 plus p&p; UK £1.20, Overseas £1.80 surface mail, £3.50 airmail.
ISBN 0 948333 89 8
Two volumes, half leather, no date but estimate 1880's. Marbled endpapers
and page edges. Numerous illustrations.
Volume One: 576 pages. Covers Ancient India and the formation of the East
India Company up to the War with Burma (1824)
Volume Two: 588 pages. Continuation of the War with Burma up to the India
famine of 1877.
The books are in remarkably good condition.The cost is $175.00 for credit card, or $160.00 for cash. Prices in Australian dollars. The books can be taken to the main shop at Parramatta (Sydney, Australia) if you would like to see them at no obligation.
Contact :
Barbara McLennan
ph/fax 61 2 9635 0460
The Book Collector
The British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) has published many books and pamphlets of monumental inscriptions of cemeteries in South Asia, as well as historical material from the latter part of the Raj. The two main categories are :
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum has unusual books available, related to colonial India and other parts of the former British Empire.
Asian Rare Books have been trading in old books on Asia for over 25 years. They are located at 175 W. 93 Street(16-D), New York, N.Y. 10025-9344 USA and have an online bookstore.
Verandah Books specialises in books about India and Nepal. They publish a series of catalogues of second-hand and rare books twice each year. If you visit their website, try selecting the catalogue on India and the British to finds fascinating old books about the British period.
India Club Bookstore specialises in books about India, not just related to the colonial period. Books can be purchased online.
The Society of Genealogists has an online bookshop based in London. There are over 100 categories with numerous titles in each, related to genealogy in Britain and Ireland.
Ebay has books for auction, for which bids can be made on the Internet.
