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**''Its People'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=8DMYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164 Calcutta Review Vol 35, Sept-Dec 1860, p 164]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXYoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Historical and Topographical Sketch of Calcutta''] by H. James Rainey 1876. Englishman Press, Calcutta. Reprinted from ''The Englishman’s Saturday Evening Journal''. A chronological account of events and social matters to 1835. Google Books.
*''Echoes from Old Calcutta: Being Chiefly Reminiscences of the Days of Warren Hastings, Francis and Impey'' by Henry Elmsley Busteed [http://www.archive.org/stream/echoesfromoldca02bustgoog#page/n11/mode/1up 1882 edition]. The 1908 [httphttps://www.archive.org/details/echoesfromoldca01bustgoog dli.csl.6722/page/n3/mode/2up Fourth edition] is much enlargedand this version has correctly rotated images. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Echoes+from+Old+Calcutta%22%29&sort=-date Other versions available] Archive.org.*''Narrative of the Life of a Gentleman Long Resident in India'' by G F Grand. [https://archive.org/details/narrativelifeag00grangoog/page/n6/mode/2up 1814 edition], [https://archive.org/details/narrativeoflifeo00graniala/page/n5/mode/2up 1910 edition] edited , with Notes, for the Calcutta Historical Society by Walter K Firminger. Archive. org:[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buck/page/174/mode/1up "Grand, George Francois (1748?-1821)"] page 174 ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' by C E Buckland (Indian Civil Service, retired) 1906 Archive.org. 1766 Bengal Army; 1776 nominated to a writership; 1779 court action involving his wife (see Busteed's book ''Echoes'' immediately above); subsequently divorced and she went to Europe and married Talleyrand; 1782 Collector of Tirhut and promoted the indigo manufacrure in Bihar to his own advantage;1788 appoined Judge and Magistrate at Patna, and eventually dismissed.
*''The Early History and Growth of Calcutta'' by Binaya Krishna Deb 1905 [http://www.archive.org/details/earlyhistoryand00debgoog Archive.org]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/calcuttapastpres00blec#page/n7/mode/2up ''Calcutta, Past and Present''] by Kathleen Blechynden 1905 Archive.org.
