Traveling from India to England, 1890

[melannen]

I thought this would be easy to find, but it's not; the Transatlantic crossing, yes, but not India to England - I've tried searching terms from ranging from "steamship india victorian timetable" to "suez canal history", and even tried searching period novels on Google Books, and not found what I need. Help? What search string am I missing

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[emo_mz]

Seems that most outgoing ships to India left from London or Liverpool headed for Bombay, Calcutta or Madras. I'd guess the ships would just turn round and do the same, or a very similar route back. I used a shipping record website (http://www.findmypast.co.uk/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action) which is meant for tracing ancestors.

I have to say you could probably have them arriving into Southampton or Glasgow too without too many problems, since I've read various things about P&O liners shifting from London to being based out of Southampton. Glasgow seems to have been a base of the 'British India Steam Co' (http://www.biship.com/history.htm) which also ran passenger services.

I've mostly googled things like 'glasgow shipping routes india', or 'port britain india passengers'. Although you might find more about the India to UK routes, I think you can probably assume that what is true in one direction will be largely true in the other.

[melannen]

Oh, thank you! (I don't actually care where they land in England, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something blatantly wrong.)

And that website looks helpful, too.