This section looks at life in India as it was experienced by the native residents rather than by visitors. It also includes articles on trade and statistics that would have been of interest to business and to the colonial administration. Women's magazines often looked at the way of life of Indian women - and rarely did they find the picture flattering. Such articles were often written to encourage donations or participation in the mission field, so once again, reader be warned - political correctness was unknown in the Victorian era! See the section on Travel & Colonial Life for a look at India through the eyes of visitors.

Laws for the Ladies (Court Magazine, 1834)

A look at Hindu laws regarding women (and whether they might apply to English ladies!).

The Calcutta Mall (Leisure Hour, 1860)

The Mofussil Magistrate (Leisure Hour, 1860)

The Agricultural Population of India, by Rev. Robert Hunter (Leisure Hour, 1868)

Cotton and Railways in India (Leisure Hour, 1868)

Indian Thieves (Leisure Hour, 1868)

Organized robbery in India.

The Population of India (Illustrated London Almanack, 1874)

Parsee Children, by Fannie Roper Feudge (St. Nicholas, 1875)

The Amusements of Hindoo Children (Little Folks, 1878)

Native Cavalry Games in Upper India (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)

Tea-Growing in India (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)

Hindu Women (Girl's Own Paper, 1880)

Population of the UK and British India (Illustrated London Almanack, 1880)

British India (Illustrated London Almanack, 1881)

Statistics and key events.

Wolf-Reared Children, by Charles Brace (St. Nicholas, 1882B)

This begins as an account of wolf-reared children in India, but then segues into a moral lesson about "wolf-children" in the streets of New York and how they are saved from a life of crime by the Children's Aid Society.

Children of All Nations: India, by Eliot James (Little Folks, 1883)

The Lac Industry of India, by Eliot James (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1883)

"Lac" is the first stage in the making of lacquer.

Trade Statistics (Illustrated London Almanack, 1883)

Indian revenue and expenditure; trade of British India; the export trade with Australia.

Finances of India, 1884-85 (Illustrated London Almanack, 1885)

Girl Life in India, by a Zenana Missionary (Girl's Own Paper, 1885)

The Indian Empire (Illustrated London Almanack, 1887)

The Veda, by W.D. Whitney (Century Magazine, 1887A)

"The Bible of the inhabitants of India, ancient and modern."

A Native Publishing House in India, by the Rev. John F. Hurst (Harper's Monthly, 1887B)

The publishing house of Munshi Newal Kishore, in Lucknow.

On the Social Position of Divers Animals, by C.F. Gordon Cummings (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)

Home Life of Hindu Women, by Mrs. E.J. Humphrey (Demorest, 1888)

The Temperance Question in India, by John Hurst (Century Magazine, 1889B)

Under the Vultures' Wings, by Julian Ralph (Harper's Monthly, 1889)

A visit to Bombay and an account of a plague in that city, along with a look at the Parsi "towers of silence" (funeral towers).

Lady Dufferin and the Women of India (The Strand, 1891B)

This article provides an interesting look at the status of "lady doctors" in Britain - along with the need for them in India (where women were not permitted to be seen by a male doctor), and the development of medical training of women in India.

At a Parsee Wedding, by May Thorne (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1892)

Gods of India, by F. Marion Crawford (Century Magazine, 1894A)

Ladies' Maids of the East, by L. Pierson (Girl's Own Paper, 1896)

On the ayahs of India.

Child-Wives, by Emily Dibdin (Girl's Own Paper, 1901)

The unhappy fate of child brides (and child widows) in India.

• See also India - Travel & Colonial Life