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:''The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age: From the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837...''. Original title was'' India in the Victorian Age; an Economic History of the People'' [https://archive.org/details/indiainvictorian00duttuoft 1904 edition], [https://archive.org/details/economichistory00duttgoog 3rd edition 1908] Archive.org.  
:''The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age: From the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837...''. Original title was'' India in the Victorian Age; an Economic History of the People'' [https://archive.org/details/indiainvictorian00duttuoft 1904 edition], [https://archive.org/details/economichistory00duttgoog 3rd edition 1908] Archive.org.  
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924005705516 ''The Empire of India''] by Sir Bampfylde Fuller,  Indian Civil Service (retired) 1913 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/empireofindia015611mbp 2nd digital file, better text, poorer photographs] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924005705516 ''The Empire of India''] by Sir Bampfylde Fuller,  Indian Civil Service (retired) 1913 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/empireofindia015611mbp 2nd digital file, better text, poorer photographs] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/passingofempire00fieluoft/page/n7 ''The Passing of Empire''] by  H Fielding-Hall [Harold] 1913 Archive.org.  A  handwritten note on the title page indicates he was a senior lawyer in Burma in the Civil Service. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.23487/page/n5 Undated edition: For circulation in India only] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13829 ''A New Geography Of The Indian Empire And Ceylon''] by Cameron Morrison. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1915, (first published 1906).  Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A%20New%20Geography%20Of%20The%20Indian%20Empire%20And%20Ceylon%29 Additional digital files available] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13829 ''A New Geography Of The Indian Empire And Ceylon''] by Cameron Morrison. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1915, (first published 1906).  Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A%20New%20Geography%20Of%20The%20Indian%20Empire%20And%20Ceylon%29 Additional digital files available] Archive.org
*''Provincial Geographies of India'' 1913-23.
*''Provincial Geographies of India'' 1913-23.

Revision as of 01:49, 4 January 2019

Scope of FIBIS' Interest

The main focus of FIBIS activities is the ‘sub-continent’ of India but we are also interested in all areas and activities of the British in South Asia including the following between the founding of the East India Company in 1599 to Indian Independence in 1947:

Also included are the activities of the East India Company in London and St. Helena.

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External links

Historical online books

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
History of India

Some general histories available as online books. Please note the dates that these have been written in order to be aware that some of the content may be outdated or incompatible with modern sensibilities.

The View of Hindoostan. Volume II Eastern Hindoostan Contents, Index. Part of the same Archive.org digital file. Also available Volume II Heidelberg University Library version.
  • Volume 1 From the earliest times to the sixth century B.C., by R.C. Dutt.
  • Volume 2 From the sixth century B.C. to the Mohammedan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great, by V.A. Smith.
  • Volume 3 Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan conquest to the reign of Akbar the Great, by S. Lane-Poole.
  • Volume 4 From the reign of Akbar the Great to the fall of the Moghul empire, by S. Lane-Poole
  • Volume 5 The Mohammedan period as described by its own historians, by Sir H.M. Elliot.
  • Volume 6 From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India company, by Sir W.W. Hunter
  • Volume 7 The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century, by Sir W.W. Hunter.
  • Volume 8 From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time, by Sir A.C. Lyall.
  • Volume 9 Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental, by A.V.W. Jackson
The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age: From the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.... Original title was India in the Victorian Age; an Economic History of the People 1904 edition, 3rd edition 1908 Archive.org.
[Volume 1] The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir by Sir James Douie 1916. [Volume 2] Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim by L S S O’Malley 1917. [Volume 3] The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States by Edgar Thurston 1913. [Volume 4] Burma by Sir Herbert Thirkell White 1923 Archive.org
1973 reprint of 1917 original with "About this book" by Jamna Das Akhtar. Archive.org.
  • Sedition Committee 1918 Report Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. Archive.org. There was also a Secret Edition ref: IOR/V/26/262/1 British Library. One of the aims of the Committee was to “investigate and report on the nature and extent of the criminal conspiracies connected with the revolutionary movement in India.” See previous item for the book by James Campbell Ker.
Sedition Committee 1918 Appendices Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version.
Report on the Administration of India for the year 1916-17 Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India].
Archive.org
India in 1922-23 (1923), Contents, Index; India in 1923-24 (1924), Contents, Index; India in 1925-26 (1926) Contents, Index; India in 1930-1931 (1932), Contents, Index.
The following books on Archive.org may require either a DjVu or Torrent (BitTorrent) plug-in: India in 1917-18; India in 1934-35
The following are available as pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with mirror versions on Archive.org: 1917-18, Archive.org 1917-18; 1919, Archive.org 1919; 1920, Archive.org 1920; 1921-22; Archive.org 1921-22; 1924-25, Archive.org 1924-25, 1926-27, Archive.org 1926-27; 1927-28, Archive.org 1927-28; 1928-29, Archive.org 1928-29; 1929-30, Archive.org 1929-30; 1931-32, Archive.org 1931-32; 1932-33, Archive.org 1932-33; 1933-34, Archive.org 1933-34; 1934-35, Archive.org 1934-35. Additional files are also available for these years.
  • The Indian Recorder was intended to be a reference book for the period. Archive.org, including Digital Library of India Collection.
April-June 1932; July-September,1932; October-December,1932; January- March 1933.
Years Of Destiny India 1926-1932 by J C Coatman 1932. Reprinted in 1985 as India The Years Of Struggle For Freedom. Archive.org version
The Indian Riddle by John Coatman 1932. Archive.org version. Full title: The Indian Riddle: a Solution Suggested
India The Road To Self Government by John Coatman 1942. Archive.org version. Initial links are pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.