Resource: Families in British India Society

I don't work in colonial history, but if you do, the Families in British India Society may be of some use. Check out their page of research advice at https://www.fibis.org/help-and-support/research-help-and-advice/. Most importantly for those of limited funds and mobility, the FIBIS can offer assistance in searching records at the British Library and other London archives. The current membership fee is £15.00 / year.

The China-India Rivalry

H-net book review for:

T. V. Paul, ed. The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2018.

Deaf Multiliteracies Project

A brief but interesting write-up of Eilidh Rose McEwan's fieldwork in Odisha and Indore with the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies Deaf Multiliteracies Project. Intrigued by the Happy Hands School for the Deaf in Odisha, and I would be interested to know how many similar institutions there are in India and how those number compare to vision support programs.

Read more at: Eilidh Rose McEwan: PhD Fieldwork in India.

India Suffragettes

H-net review for:

Sumita Mukherjee. Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Resource: National Archives, Kew

For those of you working on military records: find here a research guide to Indian Army personnel during British rule. The guide covers records held by the British Library, the National Archives at Kew, and partner sites. War diaries! It seems that there are fees involved.

More intriguing — a research guide to Indian indentured labourers. That such a thing even exists should undermine all lingering pro-Empire arguments. Not surprisingly, many more of the military records are available online than the ones about indentured/enslaved Indians. Still, it's a good place to start.