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MaureenE

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Two online regimental histories seen mentioned on another Forum, both pdf downloads from the Digital Library of India.

The Gurkhas

http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126645

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126645 Archive.org mirror version

This appears to be a reprint edition, for which no author is given, and which advises first published 1960. However the last chapter refers to events in 1964.The most likely publication appears to be The Gurkhas by Harold James and Denis Sheil-Small published 1965, London

Valour Enshrined

http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/136498

Full title: ''Valour enshrined. A history of the Maratha Light Infantry, 1768-1947'' by M.G. Abhyankar [Volume1], published 1971. (There was a second volume published, by C.L. Proudfoot in 1980, covering the period 1947-1979). The DLI file appears to be a reprint edition which advises first published 1960, but this date is not correct for this book. A mirror edition is available on Archive.org  https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136498

At the time of the Great War, the various constituent regiments which continued after the war were

103rd Mahratta Light Infantry

105th Mahratta Light Infantry

110th Mahratta Light Infantry

114th Mahrattas

116th Mahrattas

117th Mahrattas, but there may have been other regiments which were disbanded.

Two more from the Digital Library of India which I found in the catalogue recently (pdf downloads)

Official History of Operations on the N.-W. Frontier of India, 1920-35 by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1945.

http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449186

Official History of Operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1936-37' by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1943.

http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449185

The Digital Library of India has been unavailable for extended periods of time recently (maintenance?), but at the time of writing was available.

Cheers

Maureen

edit: changed URLs. Currently DLI is unavailable.

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The Digital Library of India is certainly an interesting resource!
I have been dipping into on a regular basis after Maureene pointed it out as a source of Indian Army Lists.
Thank you Maureene for drawing this site to the attention of a wider audience.

Sepoy

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Thank you Maureen.



Please keep up this good work.



Harry


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  • 9 months later...

You may have read elsewhere that the Digital Library of India has been closed for approximately a year, but prior to that many, but not all, of its  book files were uploaded to the Internet Archive (Archive.org).  

 

Did anyone download to their own computer (and keep)  two of the books mentioned above, Official History of Operations on the N.-W. Frontier of India, 1920-35, and Official History of Operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1936-37,  as these are two of the books not now available on the Internet Archive (Archive.org)?

 

If you have the downloaded file(s) on your computer, please consider uploading it/them the the Internet Archive. This is a simple process, although you do need a "good" internet speed.

For details see my post 

 

Cheers

Maureen

 

Edited: 14 November 2020

These files have become available on the Internet Archive  (Archive.org}

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.449186

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.449185

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