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Digital Library of India has many interesting books whose titles you can see if you search using words such as Bengal, Calcutta , Madras and Bombay. However to actually view these books you will need to download a plugin whose details you will find on the website. Books available include volumes of the Calcutta Review which are published later than the volumes available on Google Books, books in the Indian Records Series, Yearbooks etc
==Gallica==
*[http://gallica.bnf.fr Website]
Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A researcher has advised:<br>
There are a surprisingly large number of English books, especially scientific journals, and travelogues. Somebody in France was systematically collecting these throughout the early and mid 19th century. There was an earlier version of the "Great Game" going on between Britain and France. My 4 x great uncle John Croft Hawkins, a Bombay Marine officer took the first steam vessel up the Euphrates to Hit in what is now modern day Iraq.<br>
I knew he had done this, because it is mentioned in his obituaries, but do you think, I could find an account of it in the British papers. No, either it was so "secret" that the papers were hidden away and lost, or the ants got it. Yet, I have found a nearly contemporary French account of his progess.<br>
I have found books there that are not available in Google Books, and some that are only snippet view in Google Books are also available there.
==Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection==
