3 July 2014 Should the last Sikh maharajah be returned to India? By Perminder Khatkar BBC Radio 4 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28106083 ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

I believe he will be very welcome home, and perhaps his mother should accompany him? On 8 Jul 2014, at 06:29, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > 3 July 2014 > > Should the last Sikh maharajah be returned to India? > > By Perminder Khatkar BBC Radio 4 > > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28106083 > > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Chris I have surveyed the map and I guess, that the larger towns are marked. There is no Swanton Morley for it has the status, I believe, of a village ( I hear) . I believe it used to be an RAF base during the war which adds yet another base to the many in Norfolk ! I wonder if the flatlands , have anything to do with the case ?! Have you always lived at Watton? The map of Norfolk just looked at, is full of place names well known to most of us who have studied British History. Re my maternal grandmother (Nora Kay) who raised me. Her Parents (Kay and Anderson) hailed from Norfolk - Swanton Morley then Rotherham. I was able to glean something about the Andersons from the 1881 British Census. The RAF base retains links to the armed forces and is now, I believe, home to the Light Dragoons (Robertson Barracks) - in 1996. I wonder if you have ventured anywhere near these places? The idea of ‘ancient maps’ sounds so interesting. Glad to have met a ‘traveller’ from Norfolk ! With good wishes ~ Sally Stewart On 5 Jul 2014, at 9:23 pm, Chris Woods <c.woods45@btinternet.com> wrote: wonderful project - wish I was 20 years younger. There was a 1947/48 aerial photo survey of Britain by the RAF and the Norfolk archives hold this county’s original glass plates from which they make free copies on CD on request. They can also be viewed on line, along with a similar arial survey in ’88,, and can be overlaid with ancient maps: http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/mapexplorer/ takes a bit of getting used to. If you look up Watton, you will see the main cross roads. Our house is just south on the main road heading south and in 1940s had a wheat field behind it. The town grew! Scroll to the right and you will see the old RAF Watton - still functional in ’48 complete with aircraft on the hard standings. Back up for a larger view of Norfolk and you will see how many RAF airfields there were just after the war, with still quite a few in 1988 although not many were operational. Chris On 3 Jul 2014, at 07:00, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > 29 June 2014 > > Commonwealth frames: Rescued archive images and maps > > A collection of 1.5 million photographs, maps and other materials > relating to the Commonwealth have been rescued from a defunct > museum in Bristol. > > The images were taken for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys > (DOS) from the 1940s until the 1990s, and show communities > and landscapes in 55 countries. > > Now in Edinburgh, the photographs are being digitised and catalogued > by the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP). The > organisation is hosted by the Royal Commission on Ancient and > Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). > http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-28043056 > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Sally, As a mariner it didn’t matter where I lived and when moving south from the Tyne, we decided to settle on Norfolk in 1975 and to Watton in 1979. This small market town was then in a state of shock as the main air base had just closed although Eastern Radar continued for several years and until recently the army flew in aircraft (Hercules and assorted helicopters) for operations over/on the nearby Stanta training ground. It is not unusual to have Ghurka’s popping out of the bracken in Thetford forest with big guns and mischievous grins. Swanton Morley is a village as you say, and RAF Swanton Morley is now an army base, yes - the Light Dragoons are still resident. It has a grass runway - soil round here is very sandy and drains so well that concrete was only required for heavy bombers. RAF Watton was also grass until the Americans arrived and converted it to receive damaged aircraft for repair, hence the very long runway. Bets were often made as to whether the aircraft would survive the landing. One bomber even arrived with a telegraph pole as a split for one of its wings. You should find Swanton Morley by entering its name in the search engine, top right - lots of options. It is North East of East Dereham on the B1147 A close chum was a teacher at the village school where the local kids were much overwhelmed by the RAF ‘brats’ (its o.k., my wife was an army ‘brat’), and we occasionally pass through the village. It’s church of All Saints is in a beautiful position and has some war graves which I think have been recently re-furbished. some photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/43688219@N00/14119766023/in/photostream/ The ancient maps refer to enclosure and tithe maps, and the original O/S. map. When you come across an old, straight road, it is often a sign of the boundary of an ‘enclosure’. Let me know off-list if I can help with your Swanton Morley or Norfolk researches, Chris On 5 Jul 2014, at 17:46, karoo4@bigpond.com wrote: > Hello Chris > > I have surveyed the map and I guess, that the larger towns are marked. There is no Swanton Morley for it has the status, I believe, of a village ( I hear) . I believe it used to be an RAF base during the war which adds yet another base to the many in Norfolk ! I wonder if the flatlands , have anything to do with the case ?! > > Have you always lived at Watton? The map of Norfolk just looked at, is full of place names well known to most of us who have studied British History. > > Re my maternal grandmother (Nora Kay) who raised me. Her Parents (Kay and Anderson) hailed from Norfolk - Swanton Morley then > Rotherham. I was able to glean something about the Andersons from the 1881 British Census. > > The RAF base retains links to the armed forces and is now, I believe, home to the Light Dragoons (Robertson Barracks) - in 1996. > > I wonder if you have ventured anywhere near these places? The idea of ‘ancient maps’ sounds so interesting. > > Glad to have met a ‘traveller’ from Norfolk ! > > With good wishes ~ > Sally Stewart > > > > On 5 Jul 2014, at 9:23 pm, Chris Woods <c.woods45@btinternet.com> wrote: > > wonderful project - wish I was 20 years younger. > > > There was a 1947/48 aerial photo survey of Britain by the RAF and the Norfolk archives hold this county’s original glass plates from which they make free copies on CD on request. > They can also be viewed on line, along with a similar arial survey in ’88,, and can be overlaid with ancient maps: > > http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/mapexplorer/ > > takes a bit of getting used to. If you look up Watton, you will see the main cross roads. Our house is just south on the main road heading south and in 1940s had a wheat field behind it. > The town grew! > > Scroll to the right and you will see the old RAF Watton - still functional in ’48 complete with aircraft on the hard standings. > > Back up for a larger view of Norfolk and you will see how many RAF airfields there were just after the war, with still quite a few in 1988 although not many were operational. > Chris > > > On 3 Jul 2014, at 07:00, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 29 June 2014 >> >> Commonwealth frames: Rescued archive images and maps >> >> A collection of 1.5 million photographs, maps and other materials >> relating to the Commonwealth have been rescued from a defunct >> museum in Bristol. >> >> The images were taken for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys >> (DOS) from the 1940s until the 1990s, and show communities >> and landscapes in 55 countries. >> >> Now in Edinburgh, the photographs are being digitised and catalogued >> by the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP). The >> organisation is hosted by the Royal Commission on Ancient and >> Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). >> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-28043056 >> >> ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

wonderful project - wish I was 20 years younger. There was a 1947/48 aerial photo survey of Britain by the RAF and the Norfolk archives hold this county’s original glass plates from which they make free copies on CD on request. They can also be viewed on line, along with a similar arial survey in ’88,, and can be overlaid with ancient maps: http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/mapexplorer/ takes a bit of getting used to. If you look up Watton, you will see the main cross roads. Our house is just south on the main road heading south and in 1940s had a wheat field behind it. The town grew! Scroll to the right and you will see the old RAF Watton - still functional in ’48 complete with aircraft on the hard standings. Back up for a larger view of Norfolk and you will see how many RAF airfields there were just after the war, with still quite a few in 1988 although not many were operational. Chris On 3 Jul 2014, at 07:00, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > 29 June 2014 > > Commonwealth frames: Rescued archive images and maps > > A collection of 1.5 million photographs, maps and other materials > relating to the Commonwealth have been rescued from a defunct > museum in Bristol. > > The images were taken for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys > (DOS) from the 1940s until the 1990s, and show communities > and landscapes in 55 countries. > > Now in Edinburgh, the photographs are being digitised and catalogued > by the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP). The > organisation is hosted by the Royal Commission on Ancient and > Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). > http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-28043056 > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Wonderful photographs John - anyone with an interest in India of yore, would love to browse through.. I had not heard you tell of ancestors in India - thought that your family were the first of your line to step foot on Indian soil. Thank you for these ~ Sally On 29 Jun 2014, at 8:15 am, John Feltham <wantok@me.com> wrote: G’day folks, Like many who have connections with India I have several photos of ancestors who had their photographs taken there. Looking up one of the photographers - D.J. Divechia - of Rawalpindi brought up this web page. it may be of interest to some. http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Photographer ooroo ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

29 June 2014 Commonwealth frames: Rescued archive images and maps A collection of 1.5 million photographs, maps and other materials relating to the Commonwealth have been rescued from a defunct museum in Bristol. The images were taken for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) from the 1940s until the 1990s, and show communities and landscapes in 55 countries. Now in Edinburgh, the photographs are being digitised and catalogued by the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP). The organisation is hosted by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-28043056 ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Hi Harsh: Thank you very much for forwarding the info re: Geoge Orwell's birthplace. I have read tried to read everything that George Orwell wrote. On returning from Burma after a 5 year stretch with the Imperial Police he worked as a reporter in England and wrote many articles about social conditions both in England and France. I think these books and articles are much more interesting that "Nineteen Eighty-four" and "Animal Farm" - the ones that made him famous. A few weeks ago you forwarded to the British Raj a group photograph of George Orwell and his fellow officers in the Imperial Police in Burma. He was identified as there third officer from the left. I think this is an error - I am pretty certain he was the second officer from the left. I m sorry I didn't write then and let you know. Best wishes, moira Breen On Jul 2, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > > George Orwell's birthplace in India set to become a museum > > Dilapidated colonial bungalow where the writer was born in 1903 > in Motihari, Bihar state, will become world's first Orwell museum >

George Orwell's birthplace in India set to become a museum Dilapidated colonial bungalow where the writer was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bihar state, will become world's first Orwell museum The Guardian, Monday 30 June 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/george-orwell-birthplace-motihari-bihar-india-museum ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

British Pathe have recently put over 81,000 films from their collection onto Youtube. ooroo

Hi Arun, My Waters grandfather worked in the railways before the family emigrated to NZ. We think we have tracked most of William Waters descendants, except for one W.B. Waters born in the 1840s. Not sure where he ended up after the 1880s. William Waters 1810-1861 traveled to NSW in 1842 to bring back horses to Calcutta for the EIC. He was stationed at the government stud at Hauper at the time of the Mutiny, later moving the family to a tea plantation in Hopetown, Darjeeling. Linda On 30/06/2014 19:32, Arun Dube wrote: > Hi Linda, > I know some members of a Waters family, some of whom are in India, whereas one of them has migrated to Australia. The ones in India worked for the Indian Railways and most are still in Bilaspur, Chattisgarh, India. One of the brothers, John Waters, is in New Delhi and one, Edward, migrated to Melbourne, Australia. > Regards, > Arun > >> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:10:05 +1200 From: linda.dcollage@vodafone.co.nz [1] To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com [2]Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Searching my Families - NICHOLSON - BOYNE - WATERS and PIRES Hi Amelia, I am Waters descent. My ancestor William Waters arrived India about 1840, he had seven children. Descendants of some of these children stayed in India until partition, others emigrated to England in the late 1800s. Do you have at least one christian name? Happy to help if I can. Linda Evans [nee Waters] On 29/06/2014 21:34, amy boyne wrote: >> >>> Dear Sir, I would be most grateful if >> you could help me find some records on these >> >>> families. I have tried to >> find some but have hit a brick wall. Amelia. amy_boyne@hotmail.com [3][1] ------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [4] >> >>> 1] mailto: >> ">amy_boyne@hotmail.com [2] mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [5] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [6] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [7] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Links: ------ [1] mailto:linda.dcollage@vodafone.co.nz [2] mailto:india-british-raj@rootsweb.com [3] mailto:amy_boyne@hotmail.com [4] mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [5] mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [6] mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [7] mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com

Hi Amelia, I am Waters descent. My ancestor William Waters arrived India about 1840, he had seven children. Descendants of some of these children stayed in India until partition, others emigrated to England in the late 1800s. Do you have at least one christian name? Happy to help if I can. Linda Evans [nee Waters] On 29/06/2014 21:34, amy boyne wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I would be most grateful if you could help me find some records on these > families. I have tried to find some but have hit a brick wall. > > Any help you could give me would be deeply appreciated and THANK YOU. > > Amelia. > amy_boyne@hotmail.com [1] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [2] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Links: ------ [1] mailto:amy_boyne@hotmail.com [2] mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com

Hi Amelia, PIRES, Is a Greek Name and there were many in India . On 29/06/2014, at 8:38 PM, Nickie Johnson wrote: > Amelia, > > Difficult without any further clues such as christian names and dates! It > would be worth you checking out the Fibis Database at www.fibis.org. They > definitely have entries for the Pires name and probably others too. > > Nickie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "amy boyne" <amy_boyne@hotmail.com> > To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 10:34 AM > Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Searching my Families - NICHOLSON - > BOYNE -WATERS and PIRES > > >> Dear Sir, >> >> I would be most grateful if you could help me find some records on these >> families. I have tried to find some but have hit a brick wall. >> >> Any help you could give me would be deeply appreciated and THANK YOU. >> >> Amelia. >> amy_boyne@hotmail.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Linda, In case you are interested, I could give you the addresses of a couple of the Waters.Arun > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:25:12 +1200 > From: linda.dcollage@vodafone.co.nz > To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Searching my Families - NICHOLSON - BOYNE - WATERS and PIRES > > > > Hi Arun, > > My Waters grandfather worked in the railways before the > family emigrated to NZ. We think we have tracked most of William Waters > descendants, except for one W.B. Waters born in the 1840s. Not sure > where he ended up after the 1880s. William Waters 1810-1861 traveled to > NSW in 1842 to bring back horses to Calcutta for the EIC. He was > stationed at the government stud at Hauper at the time of the Mutiny, > later moving the family to a tea plantation in Hopetown, Darjeeling. > > > Linda > > On 30/06/2014 19:32, Arun Dube wrote: > > > Hi Linda, > > I know > some members of a Waters family, some of whom are in India, whereas one > of them has migrated to Australia. The ones in India worked for the > Indian Railways and most are still in Bilaspur, Chattisgarh, India. One > of the brothers, John Waters, is in New Delhi and one, Edward, migrated > to Melbourne, Australia. > > Regards, > > Arun > > > >> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 > 19:10:05 +1200 From: linda.dcollage@vodafone.co.nz [1] To: > india-british-raj@rootsweb.com [2]Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] > Searching my Families - NICHOLSON - BOYNE - WATERS and PIRES Hi Amelia, > I am Waters descent. My ancestor William Waters arrived India about > 1840, he had seven children. Descendants of some of these children > stayed in India until partition, others emigrated to England in the late > 1800s. Do you have at least one christian name? Happy to help if I can. > Linda Evans [nee Waters] On 29/06/2014 21:34, amy boyne wrote: > >> > >>> > Dear Sir, I would be most grateful if > >> you could help me find some > records on these > >> > >>> families. I have tried to > >> find some but > have hit a brick wall. Amelia. amy_boyne@hotmail.com [3][1] ------- > >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [4] > >> > >>> 1] mailto: > >> > ">amy_boyne@hotmail.com [2] > mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [5] > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please > send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [6] with the > word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the > list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [7] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > Links: > ------ > [1] > mailto:linda.dcollage@vodafone.co.nz > [2] > mailto:india-british-raj@rootsweb.com > [3] > mailto:amy_boyne@hotmail.com > [4] > mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com > [5] > mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com > [6] > mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com > [7] > mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Linda, I know some members of a Waters family, some of whom are in India, whereas one of them has migrated to Australia. The ones in India worked for the Indian Railways and most are still in Bilaspur, Chattisgarh, India. One of the brothers, John Waters, is in New Delhi and one, Edward, migrated to Melbourne, Australia. Regards, Arun > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:10:05 +1200 > From: linda.dcollage@vodafone.co.nz > To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Searching my Families - NICHOLSON - BOYNE - WATERS and PIRES > > > > Hi Amelia, > > I am Waters descent. My ancestor William Waters > arrived India about 1840, he had seven children. Descendants of some of > these children stayed in India until partition, others emigrated to > England in the late 1800s. Do you have at least one christian name? > > > Happy to help if I can. > > Linda Evans [nee Waters] > > On 29/06/2014 > 21:34, amy boyne wrote: > > > Dear Sir, > > > > I would be most grateful if > you could help me find some records on these > > families. I have tried to > find some but have hit a brick wall. > > > > Any help you could give me > would be deeply appreciated and THANK YOU. > > > > Amelia. > > > amy_boyne@hotmail.com [1] > > > > ------------------------------- > > To > unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com [2] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] mailto:amy_boyne@hotmail.com > [2] > mailto:INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Amelia, Difficult without any further clues such as christian names and dates! It would be worth you checking out the Fibis Database at www.fibis.org. They definitely have entries for the Pires name and probably others too. Nickie ----- Original Message ----- From: "amy boyne" <amy_boyne@hotmail.com> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 10:34 AM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Searching my Families - NICHOLSON - BOYNE -WATERS and PIRES > Dear Sir, > > I would be most grateful if you could help me find some records on these > families. I have tried to find some but have hit a brick wall. > > Any help you could give me would be deeply appreciated and THANK YOU. > > Amelia. > amy_boyne@hotmail.com > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you for sharing this touching presentation. I have been watching videos on McCluskiegunj since 1990s - so fascinating the idea of that township was. I have actually watched in one such video Kitty Memsahib selling guavas at the railway station, she playing old English songs on the family's gramophone and stories told by old residents of the town. Mr. Jha, the writer of the Hindi book on the town is NOT right in saying that the Anglo Indians of McCluskiegunj were shy of using their hands in agriculture. In one such video, an old Indian resident told the story of one Anglo Indian settler in 1940s trying to plant rice in his farm. Only, he did not know how to. He bought sacks of rice as seeds and naturally he failed.That is beside the point. What I surmised from watching all these videos was that both societies, Indian as well as the Anglo-Indians kept themselves away from each other and there was no effort from either side to assimilate. By the way, I had seen in one such video that an Anglo Indian Major General of Indian Army (I forgot his name) had bought one sprawling bungalow previously owned by another who had emigrated was not seen in the video you have presented. I wonder what happened to him and the idea with which he had settled in McCluskiegunj. It was my wish to visit the town at some stage in my life, but it seems the age is past the adventure. I thank you once again for sharing the moving saga of the remaining Anglo Indian community of this glorious town for their resilience and pride in the place of their choosing. Narendra On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar < bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > [image: Boxbe] <https://www.boxbe.com/overview> You chose to allow > Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar (bosham@gmail.com) even though this > message failed authentication > Click to disallow > <https://www.boxbe.com/anno?tc_serial=17728646653&tc_rand=278848447&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_AFA&utm_content=001&action=authfail&set=false&token=9ymOqjyjAiuUdBHUFq45ReO3ka7hkNSX7ba1%2Fi2yjwa%2F6EWBPAtliiUEWc%2FTiVDF&key=0bYx6lSO9om03kDxLSQMGjKwjVI5TUX5Iu6cM31JKGg%3D> > This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (bosham@gmail.com) Add > cleanup rule > <https://www.boxbe.com/popup?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxbe.com%2Fcleanup%3Ftoken%3DG5A6hxIgY7ddjjXDZToy%252BNX13Zzw2q5QQsNAIe%252FZUEcPFjfW%252BBZrwK2q0JbO4RU%252BTjI4jggTl21gbaq7yoERSt8pZrkatMldo9BvRu1%252Bx1JNG%252FXXBDzEOWTqyrCEeoO8Z%252FIvSgdtRpk%253D%26key%3D0bYx6lSO9on385PxHRV0mucExN2v%252F83jSyMO%252BEnd25k%253D&tc_serial=17728646886&tc_rand=2010081364&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_CLEANUP_ADD&utm_content=001> > | More info > <http://blog.boxbe.com/general/boxbe-automatic-cleanup?tc_serial=17728646886&tc_rand=2010081364&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_CLEANUP_ADD&utm_content=001> > > > The Ancestry/Rootsweb servers were indeed down for about ten > days due to an unprecedented outage. No mails made it to any of > the Lists they host, including ours, during this period. Two of my > mails were returned as ''not claimed by the Servers''. However, > with these mails of yours, Kerry and John, it's clear that the traffic > has resumed. But, as John says, unless someone writes, there would > be no mails to read .... > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Feltham" > > G’day Kerrie, > > On 24 Jun 2014, at 6:14 am, Kerrie Farmer wrote: > > << Is it my computer or is the India list site "down"...as I am not getting > any mails from India list. >> > > No, it is not ‘down’. > > Your msg just.appeared. > > You only get msgs if someone writes them! :-) > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Narendra

Dear Sir, I would be most grateful if you could help me find some records on these families. I have tried to find some but have hit a brick wall. Any help you could give me would be deeply appreciated and THANK YOU. Amelia. amy_boyne@hotmail.com

G’day folks, Like many who have connections with India I have several photos of ancestors who had their photographs taken there. Looking up one of the photographers - D.J. Divechia - of Rawalpindi brought up this web page. it may be of interest to some. http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Photographer ooroo

BOOK REVIEW: Life and Times of An Indiaphile, Whose Legacy Endures in Mumbai (Bombay). This scholarly book written by Dr. Vijaya Gupchup reminds us of the vital role of Sir George Birdwood (1832-1917) in promoting goodwill between the East and the West. Full story with photos at = http://www.indoamerican-news.com/?p=26267 ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar