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Ian Poyntz's [[Mailing lists|Roots Mailing List]] website has more [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/directories.html information on Directories] and the holdings in many libraries around the world, including the British Library.
Yearbooks offer a summary of the events for the year being covered as well much of the same information to be found in a directory, and for this reason are included in this reading list.
Searching directories that are available as online books is not as accurate as it could be, usually due to the quality of the print. As an example, a search led one researcher to an item in the 1838 ''Bengal Directory''. However, when the volume was read more widely several other items of interest were found, none of which had been picked up by using the search facility. If you are looking for something specific and you do not find it this way, it pays to look in the index, say for the births, marriages and deaths, and then go through the whole section.
See also the [[Newspapers_&_magazines_reading_list | Newspapers & Magazines reading list]]
==Guide to directories==
* Morgan, Richard
Available from the [http://shop.fibis.org FIBIS Bookshop]
==General Indian directories==
This PDF facsimile is out of production in the UK, but can be found at [http://www.archivecdbooks.com.au Archive CD Books Australia] or [http://www.archivecdbooks.ie Archive CD Books Ireland] or [http://www.archivecdbooksusa.com Archive CD Books USA]
==Regional Indian directories==
* ''The Bengal and Agra annual guide and gazetteer''. [Online version] Calcutta: W. Rushton and Co., 1841
Available to view or download on [http://books.google.com/books?id=26sEAAAAQAAJ Google Books].
==Civil Service directories==
