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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2011-01/1293968501 post] is about government appointments c 1904-1937. There is also reference to the destruction of most of the cemetery at Port Blair due to the tsunami in 2004.
*This [http://www.hinduonnet.com/lr/2003/09/07/stories/2003090700240400.htm review], from ''The Hindu'', of the book ''Travel Writing and the Empire'' by Sachidananda Mohanty (Editor), gives details of one of the essays "Colonialism, Surveillance and Memoirs of travel: Tegart's Diaries and the Andaman Cellular Jail", where "Tutun Mukherjee looks at the "Memoir of an Indian Policeman", a compilation made by Tegart's wife of the diaries of Charles Augustus Tegart, British loyalist and Police Commissioner. The Memoir, Mukherjee notes, records a particularly violent chapter in India's colonial history, that of extremism, British repression and brutal colonial incarceration. Travelling to the Cellular Jail in the beautiful Andaman archipelago in 1913, Tegart notes the careful architecture of the prison, recording all the many ways in which the prisoners were kept under control, his eyes ever alert for lapses in vigilance". Available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/8187649364 FIBIS Shop]
**''Charles Tegart of the Indian Police'': an unpublished biography by Lady Tegart is available at the [[British Library]] with European Manuscripts catalogue entry [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_1&cid=636#636 Mss Eur C235] 1881-1946
*[http://readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-arracan-expedition-andaman-islands-1867 The Arracan Expedition, Andaman Islands 1867] A detachment of 3 officers and 100 men of the [[24th Regiment of Foot]] was dispatched from Rangoon on the steamship Arracan to rescue crew members of the ship Assam Valley who had been captured. As a result 5 Victoria Cross awards were made. readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com
*'The search for Black Rock" by Professor Clare Anderson. Discusses letters in the India Office archives of the British Library dated 1874-77 written by the Reverend Thomas L.J. Warneford
:[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/02/the-search-for-black-rock-part-i.html Part I] 20 February 2012, [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/02/the-search-for-black-rock-part-ii.html Part II] 23 February 2012 British Library Blog: Untold Lives: Sharing stories from the past
