A series of paperback books about the lives of Europeans in South Asia, written by BACSA members.  Click here for an order form.  Postage and packing will be charged extra as follows: 

Code A:  under 200 pages
Code B:  201-300 pages
Code C:  over 300 pages

UK postage
A - £1.25 (1 book);  £2.25 (2 books in one packet)
B - £2.00
C - £3.00

EU postage
A - £2.85 (1 book);  £5.00 (2 books in one packet)
B - £4.25
C - £6.00

Rest of the World
A - £4.00 (1 book);  £9.50 (2 books in 1 packet)
B - £7.70
C - £12.00

List of publications

Above the Heron’s Pool
Heather Lovatt and Peter de Jong, 1993  £5.00   Code A
A story of the Peermade/Vandiperiyar District of Travancore  from 1847 based on the Baker and Munro families who transformed  this wild and uncharted area into a thriving sector of the plantation industry. For the genealogist there are family trees and a copy of the church registers.

182pp, 20 illustrations, 2 maps   ISBN 0 907799 51 5

An American Memsahib in India: The Letters and Diaries of Irene Mott Bose:
1920-1951
Edited by Dr Patricia Owens, 2006   £7.00   Code B
Her Indian diary and letters vividly record her time among local villagers and the cultural complexities encountered.  As the wife of an Indian High Court judge she observed the British, entertained viceroys and visited Gandhi.

230pp, 20 illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 85 X

Bombay Buccaneers: Memories and Reminiscences of the Royal Indian Navy:
1927-1947
Edited by Commander Jack Hastings, 1986  £7.50   Code B
267pp, 23 illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 15 9

The British Residency in Hyderabad
Omar Khalidi, 2005     £4.50   Code A
The story of the Hyderabad Residency and the Residents who lived in it. A princely state until 1948, ruled by the fabulously wealthy Nizams who saw themselves as heir to the Mughal Empire and retained much old world charm and many curious customs. 

120pp, 20 illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 83 3

The Calcutta of Begum Johnson
Ivor Edwards-Stuart, 1990    £5.00   Code A
180pp, 15 illustrations, 5 maps   ISBN 0 907799 34 5

Follow My Bangalorey Man
Paul Byron Norris, 1996    £4.50   Code A
A panorama of Bangalore in the 1920s and 1930s through the eyes of the author during his childhood and schooldays. 

180pp, illustrations and maps    ISBN 0 907799 56 6
(Note: if ordered with 'Willingly to War', £7.00 the two, Code C)

“Hellfire Jack!” VC: General Sir William Olpherts 1822-1902
Peter Collister, 1989     £4.50   Code A
198pp, 20 illustrations, 5 maps   ISBN 0 907799 33 7

India Served and Observed
William and Mildred Archer, 1994   £5.00   Code A
A joint husband-and-wife autobiography of their time in Bihar from 1931 to independence, reflecting their passionate interest in the Indian art field.

171pp, 25 illustrations, map    ISBN 0 907799 53 1

The Kashmir Residency—Memories of 1939 and 1940
Evelyn Désirée Battye, 1997    £3.50   Code A
A vivid account of life in the Residency as seen through the eyes of a young woman, newly arrived in India to work as the personal assistant to the Resident.

150pp, 33 illustrations, map    ISBN 0 907799 59 0

Memoirs of an Adventurous Dane in India: 1904-1947
August Peter Hansen, 1999    £3.50   Code B
The story of a young Danish sailor, stranded through illness in Calcutta. He joins the City Police, works for Birla on security and finally as a customs officer. 

231pp, 38 illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 64 7

“Missy Baba” to “Burra Mem”: The Life of a Planter’s Daughter in Northern India: 1913-1970
Joan Allen, 1998     £4.50   Code A
A childhood in Bihar, marrying a planter who goes off to the War leaving her with their children; later supporting him as a political officer and in the tea industry.

165pp, 38 illustrations, map    ISBN 0 907799 60 4

Peacock Dreams
Bill Tydd, 1986     £4.50   Code B
Reminiscences of a police officer in Burma, 1929-1942.

203pp, 30 illustrations, map    ISBN 0 907799 14 0

A Railway Family in India
Patrick Hugh Stevenage, 2001   £3.50   Code A
A family saga spanning five generations in a 200-year cycle of emigrating from England, becoming part of the Anglo-Indian community in and around Madras, until finally returning to England and British Rail.

144pp, 33 illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 77 9

Statues of the Raj
Mary Ann Steggles, 2000    £7.50   Code B
An illustrated catalogue of over 60 of the largely forgotten statues of the British in South Asia including viceroys, governors, bishops, soldiers, teachers and philanthropists, with details of sculptors and biographical notes. 

240pp, 98 illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 74 4

Ulysses in the Raj
Paul Byron Norris, 1992    £4.50   Code A
The story of Greek trade in India and the Hellenic presence in Bengal and Northern India  from the time of the “Company”. This unique account follows the fortunes of notable families from their origins in Europe.

198pp, 13 illustrations, 4 maps   ISBN 0 907799 46 9

Under Malabar Hill: Letters from India: 1928-1933
Maisie Wright, 1988     £3.50   Code B
Social work among women in Bombay.

208pp, 30 illustrations, map    ISBN 0 907799 29 9

Who Was Dr Jackson?  Two Calcutta Families: 1830-1855
Mary Bennett, 2002     £5.00   Code A
The doctor, in his unbroken 25-year career in Bengal, rose to become a professor of the fledgling Calcutta Medical College.  He married a Pattle making this a fascinating study of two families with their Calcutta-Bloomsbury connections.

132pp, illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 78 7

Willingly to War
Paul Byron Norris, 2004    £4.50   Code A
A young emergency commissioned officer’s impressions of the Indian Army during the Second World War.  First as a cadet at Dehra Dun, then as an officer on the North-West Frontier, followed by a period on the North-East Frontier and Burma. 

200pp, 8 illustrations     ISBN 0 907799 81 7
(Note: if ordered with 'Follow my Bangalorey Man', £7.00 the two, Code C)

Other books distributed by BACSA

Policing the Raj: 1928-1947
Leslie Robins, 1985     £3.00   Code A
Served in the UP and Indore; privately published.

120pp       ISBN 0 9509916 0 0

A Squire of Hindoostan
Narinder Saroop, 1985 (2nd edn, London)  £6.00   Code A
The story of William Gardner who raised Gardner’s Horse in 1809.

178pp; hardback     ISBN 0 906691 27 3

Two Monsoons
Theon Wilkinson, 1987 (Rev. pbk edn, Duckworth) £7.50   Code B
The origin of BACSA.  An insight into the life and death of Europeans in India over three centuries through the epitaphs and monuments left behind in cemeteries. 

250pp       ISBN 0 7156 10155

The following books are out of print:

And Then Garhwal   Audrey Baylis, 1981
The Burma of “AJ”   AJ White, 1991
Canals and Campaigns   George Moncrieff, 1987
Far Frontiers (NE India)   John Whitehead, 1989
The Fighting Ten   Evelyn Battye, 1984
Forest Families   Mary McDonald Ledzion, 1991
Free Mariner   Anne Bulley, 1992
The Gordon Creeds   William Trousdale, 1984
The Ilberts in India   Mary Bennet, 1995
In the Shade of Kanchenjunga   Jennifer Fox, 1993
India—Sunshine and Shadows   Betsy Macdonald, 1988
Married to the Raj   Margaret Martyn, 1992
Merchant Prince   Sir Owain Jenkins, 1987
Morning Drum   John Christie, 1983
On Honourable Terms   Martin Wynne, 1985
Send Malcolm   Rodney Pasley, 1982
Under the Old School Topee   Hazel Innes Craig, 1990