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Contents REGULARS Editor’s letter ...................................................................... 5 News ...................................................................................................6 A view from the Centre ................................ 54 DAVID ANNAL loses one relative but gains some new family members
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Ask the experts ..............................................................70 HOW THEY LIVED
Old soldiers never die ...................................... 73 FRANK RICHARDS meets some veterans of the Indian Army
Off the record ................................................................ 74 MILDRED MASHEDER recalls her 1920s country childhood
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Book reviews ....................................................................66
Readers’ letters ............................................................68
FEATURES
RECORDS OF THE RAJ ..........................................12 TOM ALMEROTH-WILLIAMS looks at Britain’s activities in India to be found at the British Library MY ANCESTORS
FORGOTTEN FRONT ................................................18 KEITH GREGSON reads his great-uncle Charlie’s diary about serving in India during the First World War
A BLOODY BUSINESS ............................................ 22 PHIL TOMASELLI targets causes and effects of the Indian Mutiny
GHOSTS OF THE INDIAN MUTINY ........28 RICHARD CARLYON discovers some poignant notes in a copy of the East India Register
CHAPS AND CHAPATTIS ................................ 30 PETER BAILEY and ELAINE MACGREGOR introduce the family history society for people with ancestors who lived in India ANCESTORS PROMOTIONS
MARKING THE MUTINY .................................. 31 Join our tour to India
ON THE CARDS .............................................................. 33 ELSE CHURCHILL describes resources at the Society of Genealogists for tracing family history on the sub-continent
BATTLE STARS .................................................................. 36 JOHN SLY pins down the history of 19th-century Indian campaign medals
TNA RECORDS FOCUS
CERTIFIED OF UNSOUND MIND ............ 45 KATHY ELAM examines records on lunatics at The National Archives MONUMENTS
SYMPATHY FOR SMUGGLERS.................... 51 ROY and LESLEY ADKINS visit the graves of two victims of a battle between smugglers and the authorities TECHNO-FILE
INTERNET NEWS .......................................................... 58 Take an online journey to India........ 60 STUART A RAYMOND explores the internet for information about Britons on the sub-continent FRONT COVER: Gurkha soldiers on the North-West Frontier, 1897 TNA:PRO COPY 1/430