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==External links==*[http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=2227 "Scotland’s Empire: The Scots in British India"] (scroll down) by Sir Tom Devine. [[BACSA]] podcast of a lecture 8 April 2019. "Scotland’s most distinguished historian Sir Tom Devine considers the role of Scots in India in administration, the military and trade with special reference to the period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Among the themes examined are the scale of Scottish ‘colonisation’ of the East India Company, the reasons for this and the impact of the India connection on Scotland itself. Sir Tom Devine is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Edinburgh. His books include ''To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, The Scottish Nation 1700–2000'' and ''Scotland’s Empire''.
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1986318?region=Scotland Scotland records from FamilySearch]. Currently (2019/07/06) you need to be signed in to FamilySearch to see the whole webpage. Free records. Includes transcribed index records and links to additional catalogue material, some of which may need to be viewed at a FamilySearch Centre, or FS Affiliate Library, see [[FamilySearch Centres]]. (To view records you need to be signed in to [[FamilySearch]]).
:Some records from National Records of Scotland, see below, are available on FamilySearch catalogued as "Microfilm of original records ... in the New Register House, Edinburgh". These are mainly catalogued as Old parochial registers [OPR], parish registers or blotter registers. There are also some records catalogued from National Archives of Scotland. Currently (2020/04/10) these records are catalogued as available only at [[FamilySearch Centres| FamilySearch Family History Centres]]. although previously they appear to have been also viewable at FS Affiliate Libraries.
:FamilySearch Digital Library contains [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/745737 ''Smith's inventory of genealogical sources : Scotland''] in 34 volumes c 1994, with most volumes covering a different county. To view, you need to be signed into FamilySearch. A description in the first volume states "The Inventory provides a locator for items within printed and unpublished material. For example, there are many historical society publications, serials, and periodicals that deal with a variety of subjects. ...The Inventory is designed to bring to light some of the valuable articles hidden within these sources which are not well known to the amateur genealogist. ...The cut-off date for material in this Inventory is December 1989." [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/606832-smith-s-inventory-of-genealogical-sources-scotland-v-01-pt-01?viewer=1&page=11 List of Subjects covered] Volume 1, pages 8-12.
*[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ ScotlandsPeople]. scotlandspeople.gov.uk. A free to search, but pay to view site containing “almost 80 million records” as at March 2010. Includes Births, Marriages, Deaths, Wills and Censuses.
**[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/forenames#Forenames%20and%20naming%20patterns Forenames and naming patterns in Scotland]
*Online [https://archive.org/details/scottishdirectories?sort=-date Scottish Directories] from the collection of the [http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland on Archive.org]. Also available on the [http://digital.nls.uk/directories/ National Library of Scotland] website, where there is a '''Search''' facility. The collection on Archive.org is probably easier to browse, the collection on the NLS website easier to search.
*[https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html "New gazetteer for searching Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile, 1888-1913 maps" [of England, Scotland, and Wales<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Scroll down to entry dated April 2018 for details. Direct link for [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=1&b=1 Search] maps.nls.uk.
==External links==
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25530110 "Scots in India in the Eighteenth Century"] by G. J. Bryant ''The Scottish Historical Review'' Vol. 64, No. 177, Part 1 (Apr., 1985), pp. 22-41. jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free. Some restrictions apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]] for more details.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090615074522/http://www.tigerandthistle.net/index.htm The Tiger and the Thistle] Website project focusing on [[Tipu Sultan]] and the Scots in India, 1760-1800, now an archived website.
*[https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6864 ''A social and domestic history of the kilted and Highland Based Regiments of Foot, 1820-1920''] by D M Henderson [Diana Mary] 1986 PhD Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, University of Edinburgh.
