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The country of Iraq was previously part of the area known as '''Mesopotamia'''. It was also known as '''Turkish Arabia'''.
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==Scope of FIBIS' Interest==


Iraq's modern borders were created in 1920 by a League of Nations mandate and Iraq was placed under British control, known as the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. A monarchy was established in 1921 and the Kingdom of Iraq gained independence from Britain in 1932.
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:
<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
*[[Afghanistan]]
*[[Aden]]
*[[Andaman Islands]]
*[[Bangladesh]]
*[[Benkulen]] (Sumatra)
*[[Burma]] (Myanmar)
*[[Ceylon]] (Sri Lanka)
*[[China]], [[Macao]] & [[Hong Kong]]
*[[Indonesia]] (Borneo, Labuan etc.)
*[[Malaysia]]
*[[Mauritius]]
*[[Persia]]
*[[Singapore]]
*[[Straits Settlements]]
</div>


The capital is Baghdad.
Also included are the activities of the East India Company in [[Home Establishment | London]] and [[St. Helena]].


==Also see==
===See also===
*[[Mesopotamia Campaign]] 1914-1918
*[[Presidencies]]
*[[Indian Divisions in Mesopotamia]]
*[[:Category:Locations|Browse British India locations]]
*[[Post and Telegraphs Department]] for information about the Indo-European Telegraph
 
==Records==
*See [[General Register Office]] for births, marriages and deaths.
*[[London Metropolitan Archives]] has a catalogue reference [http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+DL~2FE~2FE~2F065~2FMS11221?SESSIONSEARCH  DL/E/E/065/MS11221] Certificates and Copy Certificates of Marriages at St. Peter's Church, Basra. 1922-8
*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA Archive]] at the British Library Mss F370 has item 825 Iraq
**Baghdad, civil cemetery: 1886-1980
**Abadan, St Christopher's
**Habbaniya
**Kut
*A search for Baghdad in the [http://s10312uk.eos-intl.eu/S10312UK/OPAC/Index.aspx online Catalogue] of the [[Society of Genealogists|Society of Genealogists, London]]  gives the following entry:
**''Baghdad (Civil cemetery) : MIs: Asia monumental inscriptions, vol. 1''  by Andrew Peake (8 pages, typescript)
::The FamilySearch Library catalogue has an [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/724202 entry] for this typescript.  However it appears to be only available at the Library in Salt Lake City, (and is noted to be unavailable at 2020/02).
:A search for Persian Gulf in the SoG catalogue includes the following entry:
:*Persian Gulf (& surrounds) : ''MIs: An Indian miscellany, consisting of genealogical & biographical notes & lists of monumental inscriptions''  by H Bullock and H K Percy-Smith 1941-44
*[http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_Results.aspx?CemeteryName=baghdad&send.x=55&send.y=14  Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery] is under the control of the  [http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14 Commonwealth War Graves Commission] which has a searchable database.
*[[British Library]] India Office Records catalogue entry [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4ddbcaf1-e0dd-4cd4-8bb9-154895856e6b#1-10  Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf  IOR/G/29]  1620-1822
*British Library India Office Records catalogue entry [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/99dcdf9e-ad3e-46e1-b00c-0a4f0d54903a Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf  IOR/R/15]  1763-1951. Although there were Agencies at Basra ( Basrah) and Baghdad, there are no records in this series for these Agencies.
*[http://www.idc.nl/ead/455.xml Finding Aid: British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880-1950] IDC Publishers. Original records held in the British Library India Office Records. Includes a section on Iraq.
* A Rootsweb India Mailing List post suggested searching the [[The National Archives|National Archives]] database, as "some very surprising information on my grandparents" was found, her father having been born in Baghdad in 1895.<ref> george legge [Mary].  [https://web.archive.org/web/20151119230611/http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301775715 David Rae Nelson, HEIC Civil Servant ca. 1833 - where?] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 3 Apr 2011, now archived. Retrieved 24 February 2020.</ref>


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq Iraq] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Mesopotamia British Mandate of Mesopotamia] 1920-1932 Wikipedia
*"The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley ''Asian Affairs Volume XL, no. I'', March 2009  [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf  Pdf].
:Onley wrote the book ''The Arabian frontier of the British Raj: merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf'' by James Onley 2007 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8qISDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books including [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8qISDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 page 118] showing in a table  the Persian Gulf Division of the Bombay Postal Circle (Bombay GPO) and the Sindh Postal Circle (Karachi GPO), in Basrah and Baghdad.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell"] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society No. 92 (2007''), pages 17-18, now archived.
:Briefly mentions the Indo-European Telegraph Department connecting India with Baghdad, in the early 1860’s, the route being Karachi, Gwadur (Baluchistan), Fao (now Fawr, Iraq), Basra, Baghdad, (then part of greater Turkey), and from there to Europe.
*This  [http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/english-literature-history-children39s-books-illustrations-l09773/lot.6.html  link] (Sothebys) gives details of the papers and career of Sir Harford Jones. At the age of 19, Jones was posted to Basra in the service of the East India Company, to be assistant factor. He remained in the post for a decade (1783-1794). He was Resident in Baghdad from 1798 to 1804.
*This  [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Memoirs_of_Baghdad_Kurdistan_and_Turkish.html?id=d4hfAAAACAAJ link] gives details of the book ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857''  by J. F Jones , Indian Navy,  a 1998 facsimile re-publication , one of the volumes in a series of Bombay Government Records, no. XLIII, new series published 1857 originally published  with the title ''Memoirs by Commander James Felix Jones''  It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Reprint edition available at the  [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011403809. Original edition available on the pay website [https://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/handle/123456789/15202 Asiatic Society of Mumbai] granthsanjeevani.com.
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/iraq.htm Iraq] Britishempire.co.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010170201/http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Iraq/iraq_041115_britsinmesopotamia.htm The British in Mesopotamia] stanford.edu, now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121101232233/http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Old_Iraq Old Magazine Articles: Iraq 1920s] oldmagazinearticles.com, now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160625115053/http://www.casahistoria.net/iraq.htm The British in Mesopotamia/Iraq] casahistoria.net, now archived.
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2958143.stm "Lost British graveyard found in Iraq"] at Al Amara, built for those in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force,  by the banks of the Tigris river. 18 April 2003 BBC News.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120508134151/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/22/worlddispatch.iraq "Echoes of the Past", a Baghdad graveyard]  Guardian.co.uk  22 June 2004, now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://mespot.co.uk/ Grandpa’s Journal], now archived. Harry James Goulter Pearman was with the Army Audit Staff in Mesopotamia.  A sample page, now archived, is headed [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042646/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.12.18.shtml Sunday 18 December 1921]
:Most of the diary entries are for 1921. It is difficult for some/all browsers to  navigate this website, see hints below if you want to read additional entries.<ref>The dates of the entries are in the top LH corner of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://mespot.co.uk/ Home webpage] now archived, from 21 December 1920 to 1 February 1922.  Before being archived, the entries from the journal were in the format
<nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/ab.cd.ef.shtml</nowiki> , where, for a particular entry,  ab is the year, cd is the month, ef is the first mentioned day in the month  (all two digits). A typical example is <nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.04.18.shtml</nowiki> , and most entries are similarly from 1921. Construct your own URL, using the relevant date,  then use "Browse
History" in the [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Internet Archive Wayback Machine] to obtain the archived URL. Alternatively using the Internet Archive (archive.org) link [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mespot.co.uk/*  mespot.co.uk] scroll down to entries containing the word journal, and then click on the link. However, these links are not all in date order.</ref>
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77433 ''Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist''] by Friedrich Rosen, 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. The author was born  1856. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rosen Friedrich Rosen] Wikipedia.
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*'' A Handbook of Mesopotamia'' by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. 1916-1917. In four volumes, (plus a supplementary volume), the first contained matters of a general nature, the other volumes contain a description of the river and land routes. Maps were issued separately.
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.
** Hathi Trust Digital Library: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073337972?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume I: General''] August 1916. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073337998?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert''] January 1917. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073338004?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Volume IV: Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan''] April 1917
*Also see [[East India Company#Historical books online|East India Company]].
**Qatar Digital Library: [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023043183.0x000001 ''Volume I'', 2nd edition] November 1918. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023662423.0x00000b ''Volume II: Irak, the Lower Karun and Luristan (C.B. 294)''] May 1917. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023493069.0x00000d'' Volume III''] January 1917. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514007.0x00000b ''Supplement. Corrections and additions to Volume III (C.B. 295A'')] June 1918. [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023517293.0x00000d ''Volume IV'']  April 1917. Maps are included.
*Also see [[Governor-General]].
**Library of Congress/American Memory: [http://www.memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20090723001ha/20090723001ha.pdf ''Volume I''] 2nd edition November 1918. [http://www.memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20090723002ha/20090723002ha.pdf ''Volume II'', Provisional Issue] May 1917. [https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20090723003ha/20090723003ha.pdf ''Volume III''] January 1917. [http://www.memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20090723004ha/20090723004ha.pdf ''Volume IV''] April 1917
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024059705 ''Early English Adventurers in the East''] by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org
**A "Gazetteer of Towns" is included in Volumes II, III, and IV.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.9987 ''The First Englishmen in India. Letters and Narratives of sundry Elizabethans...''] by J  Courtenay Locke 1930 Archive.org. Part of the series ''The Broadway Travellers''.
***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023662424.0x0000b5 ''Volume II: Irak, the Lower Karun and Luristan" "Gazetteer of Towns"] page 371.  Qatar Digital Library
*''A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies'' by Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 1804 edition, first published in an English translation 1783 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Qqw1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3  Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=2as1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 2] (out of 6 volumes) Google Books
***[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073337998;view=1up;seq=702 ''Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert'' "Gazetteer of Towns"], page 350. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*''Bengal and Madras papers: recounting the growth of British power in India'' edited by G W Forrest 1928. Published by Imperial Record Department, Calcutta.
***[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073338004;view=1up;seq=842 ''Volume IV: Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan''  "Gazetteer of Towns"], page 418. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35331 Volume I [1670-1688<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21510 Vol. II [1688-1757<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21511 Vol. III [1757-1785<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Links to  pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.   
**Maps. National Library of Australia. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516266/view Map of City of Baghdad]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA56 "India, or Hindostan"] page 56 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
::[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516432/view    Outline Map showing Routes: Volume II], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516654/view Outline Map showing Routes: Volume III], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516767/view  Outline Map showing Routes: Volume IV]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MnUIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Transactions in India, from the commencement of the French War in seventeen hundred and fifty-six, to the conclusion of the late peace, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three: Containing a history of the British interests in Indostan, during a period of near thirty years; distinguished by two wars with France, several revolutions and treaties of alliance, the acquisition of an extensive territory, and the administration of Governor Hastings''] by John Moir 1786 Google Books
*''Military Report on Iraq''. A series of ten reports on Iraq after the First World War
*''British India analyzed: The provincial and revenue establishments of Tippoo Sultaun and of Mahomedan and British conquerors in Hindostan, stated and considered. In Three Parts'' by Charles Francis Greville 1795 Google Books
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100038379484.0x000002  ''Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq): Area 1 (Northern Jazirah) (Provisional)''] Compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. 1st edition 1922.  IOR/L/MIL/17/15/42. Qatar Digital Library
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=CIoiax0JlcQC&pg=PP11 ''Part 1 The Object and Principles Of The New Act; The Revenue Regulations of Tippoo Sultaun; and The Provincial Establishments Of Mahomedan Conquerors In British India'']
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100038406030.0x000002 ''Military Report on Iraq: Area 2 (Upper Euphrates)''] Compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. 1924  IOR/L/MIL/17/15/43. Qatar Digital Library
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=ktiExi7-ZM8C&pg=PA291  ''Part 2 Provincial and Revenue Establishments Of British Conquerors'']
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100036143038.0x000002 ''Military report on Mesopotamia (Iraq) Area 8 (Western Kurdistan) (Provisional)''] Compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. 1923 IOR/L/MIL/17/15/45. Qatar Digital Library
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=RIF1uTJSruQC&pg=PR6 ''Part 3 Deductions From The History Of Mahomedan and European Conquerors'']
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000167 ''Military Report on Iraq - Volume II (Routes)''] by  Air Ministry  1936  IOR/L/MIL/17/15/47. Qatar Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/b28774723_0001 ''The View of Hindoostan.  Volume I Western Hindoostan''] by Thomas Pennant 1798 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/b28774723_0001#page/n19/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/b28774723_0001#page/n305/mode/2up Index]
*[https://archive.org/details/railwaysinwester00pico ''Railways in Western Asia''] by Lieutenant-Colonel H Picot Indian Army (Retired). Published by the Central Asian Society, London 1904 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan01penn#page/n305/mode/2up  ''The View of Hindoostan. Volume II Eastern Hindoostan''] [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan01penn#page/n311/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan01penn#page/n693/mode/2up Index]. Part of the same Archive.org digital file. Also available [https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.644#0002 ''Volume II''  Heidelberg University Library version].
*[https://archive.org/details/tomesopotamiakur00soanuoft ''To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in disguise : with historical notices of the Kurdish tribes and the Chaldeans of Kurdistan''] by E B Soane c 1914 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/nabobsstudyofsoc0000spea/page/n5 ''The Nabobs : a Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India''] by Percival Spear. Reprint edition 1980, first published 1932, second enlarged edition 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''The Letters of Gertrude Bell'' published 1927. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209780 ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70327  ''Volume II'']. Mainly letters sent to her family.  ''Volume II'' is in respect of her time in Baghdad 1917-1926.
*''The East Indian chronologist : where the historical events respecting the East Indian Company are briefly arranged in succession from the date of their Charter in 1600, to the 4th of June 1801, with other particulars necessary to be known, as interesting to the inhabitants of India'' by John  Hawkesworth 1801 (Calcutta) [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BJQNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books version], [https://archive.org/details/eastindianchrono00hawkuoft  Archive.org version]- note many pages are marked.
**[http://gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk Gertrude Bell Archives] Newcastle University, UK. Includes transcribed letters and diaries.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=1ncIAAAAQAAJ ''The History of British India'' Vol 1], by James Mill (1817) [http://books.google.com/books?id=zv8LAAAAYAAJ Vol 2 (1708-84)], [http://books.google.com/books?id=gXgIAAAAQAAJ Vol 3 (1784-1805)] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61071/page/n1/mode/2up ''Twin Rivers, a Brief History of Iraq from the Earliest Times to the Present Day''] by Seton Lloyd 1943. Archive.org mirror version from  Digital Library of India.
*''History of the Possessions of the Honorable East India Company'' by R. Montgomery Martin 1837. [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.37026/page/n1/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/historyofpossess01rmon/page/n9/mode/2up Volume I], 2004 reprint edition; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.37008/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org, including Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/arabianadventure0000glub ''Arabian Adventures : Ten years of joyful service''] by John Glubb (Sir John Bagot Glubb) 1978. The period from 1920, when he was posted to Iraq as a member of the Royal Engineers. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb John Bagot Glubb] Wikipedia.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=wxINAAAAYAAJ ''The History of British India 1805 to 1835'' Vol 1], by Horace Hayman Wilson (1848), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cBINAAAAYAAJ Vol 2 from 1813], [http://books.google.com/books?id=8swNAAAAIAAJ Vol 3 from 1823] Google Books
*''A History of Iraq'' by Charles Tripp. [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00char 1st edition, 2000]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq0000trip 3rd edition 2007], (2nd edition 2002),  [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00trip 2nd file 2007] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=u4MfAAAAYAAJ ''The History of the British Empire in India'' Vol 1], by Edward Thornton (1841) [http://books.google.com/books?id=yYYfAAAAYAAJ Vol 2, 1766-98], [http://books.google.com/books?id=B4MfAAAAYAAJ Vol 3, 1797-1805], [http://books.google.com/books?id=rQRXAAAAMAAJ Vol 4, 1805-19], [http://books.google.com/books?id=kB4NAAAAYAAJ Vol 5, 1823-33], [http://books.google.com/books?id=GGYBAAAAQAAJ Vol 6, 1833-43] [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ 2nd edition  1859]   with an “entirely new and enlarged [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3  glossary"], [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR17 chronological index], and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA609  index] Google Books
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=zIMfAAAAYAAJ ''The History of the British Empire in India...1844 to 1862: Forming a Sequel to Thornton's History of India'' Vol 1], by Lionel James Trotter (1866) Google Books, [http://www.archive.org/stream/historybritishe00trotgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Vol 2] (Archive.org)
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.741/page/n1/mode/2up ''History of British India with Continuation comprising the Afghan War- The Conquest of Sinde and Gwalior-War in the Punjaub Etc''] by Hugh Murray 1851. Originally published 1832. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=CI0cAAAAMAAJ ''Political and Military Events in British India: From the Years 1756 to 1849: Vol 1'' (to 1814)] by William Hough (1853)  and [http://books.google.com/books?id=CI0cAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA371  Vol 2 (1814-49)] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/charlesgrantbrit0000embr/page/n5 ''Charles Grant and British Rule in India''] by Ainslie Thomas Embree 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Grant (1746-1823) used his influential position as a director of the East India Company to advance the evangelical chaplains and defended the Baptist Missionaries in India.
*[https://archive.org/details/threepresidencie01capp_0/page/n5 ''The Three Presidencies of India''] by John Capper 1853 Archive.org. Full title ''The Three Presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian Possessions…''
*''A comprehensive History of India, civil, military and social, from the first landing of the English, to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt'' by Henry Beveridge 1862 editions (first published 1858) Google Books [http://www.google.com/books?id=XLUIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3  Volume 1( -1767) (Books 1, 2, 3)], [http://www.google.com/books?id=hRENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3  Volume 2 (1762 -1803) (Books 4, 5, 6)], [http://www.google.com/books?id=wRENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP15  Volume 3 (1808-) (Books 7, 8,9)], [http://www.google.com/books?id=wRENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711  Index to all Volumes]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mwRSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''‪India in 1858‬: ‪A Summary of the Existing Administration, Political, Fiscal, and Judicial, of British India, Together with the Laws and Public Documents Relating Thereto, from the Earliest to the Present Time‬''] by Arthur Mills 1858 Google Books
*''The Administration of India from 1859-1868: the First Ten Years of Administration under the Crown'' by Iltudus Thomas Prichard 1869  [http://books.google.com/books?id=YFUuAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 1],[http://books.google.com/books?id=YFUuAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR6-IA1 Contents]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=s1MuAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=s1MuAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR5 Contents] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9FMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3  ''The Englishman in India''] by Charles Raikes 1867 (Google Books)
*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofin00wheeuoft/page/n5 ''A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma''] by J Talboys Wheeler 1899.  Printed in London. Archive.org
:''India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma'' by J Talboys Wheeler 1899 Printed in New York. [https://archive.org/details/indiafrontiersta01whee/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/indiafrontiersta02whee/page/n8 Volume II]  Includes a supplementary chapter in Volume II, but otherwise the text is probably the same.
*''A History of India'' by A F Rudolf Hoernle,  Indian Educational Service (Retired List)  and Herbert A Stark,  Bengal Educational Service. [https://archive.org/details/historyofindia00hoeriala/page/n5/mode/2up  [1st edition<nowiki>]</nowiki> 1904], [https://archive.org/details/ahistoryindia00stargoog/page/n8/mode/2up 3rd edition] 1906; [https://archive.org/details/historyofindia00hoeruoft/page/n5/mode/2up Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged  [1909<nowiki>]</nowiki>] All Archive.org
*''History of India'' published 1906-07 (Archive.org):
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia01jackiala Volume 1]  ''From the earliest times to the sixth century B.C''., by R.C. Dutt.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia02jackiala Volume 2] ''From the sixth century B.C. to the Mohammedan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great'', by V.A. Smith.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia03jackuoft Volume 3] ''Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan conquest to the reign of Akbar the Great'', by S. Lane-Poole.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia04jackuoft Volume 4] ''From the reign of Akbar the Great to the fall of the Moghul empire'', by S. Lane-Poole
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia05jackuoft Volume 5]  ''The Mohammedan period as described by its own historians'', by Sir H.M. Elliot.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia06jackiala Volume 6]  ''From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India company'', by Sir W.W. Hunter
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia07jackuoft Volume 7]  ''The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century'', by Sir W.W. Hunter.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia08jackiala Volume 8]  ''From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time'', by Sir A.C. Lyall.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia09jackiala Volume 9]  ''Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental'', by A.V.W. Jackson
*''The Cambridge History of India'' published 1922-1932.
:[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory05raps/page/n8 ''Volume V British India  1497-1858''] edited by H H Dodwell 1928
:[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory06raps/page/n6  ''Volume VI The Indian Empire 1858-1918. With chapters on the development of Administration  1818-1858''] edited by H H Dodwell 1932
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Cambridge+history+of+India%29&sort=-publicdate Earlier volumes in the series] All Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiahistory0000keay/mode/2up ''India : a History''] by  John Keay 2000. [https://archive.org/details/indiahistory00keay/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NVQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Dictionary of British-Indian dates: being a compendium of all the dates essential to the study of the history of British rule in India''] 1866 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h2APAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Slave Trade (East India). [Also<nowiki>]</nowiki> Slavery in Ceylon'']. Correspondence between the Directors of the East India Company and the Company's Government in India, on the subject of Slavery. Communications relating to Slavery in the Island of Ceylon. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers  31 July 1838. Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HbknAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Slavery and the slave trade in British India: with notices of the existence of these evils in the islands of Ceylon, Malacca, and Penang, drawn from official documents''] Published 1841 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/indiain188000temp  ''India in 1880''] by Sir Richard Temple  Second Edition1881 [https://archive.org/stream/indiain188000temp#page/n17/mode/2up  Contents] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/administrationm00forrgoog ''The Administration of the Marquis of Lansdowne as Viceroy and Governor-general of India, 1888-1894''] by George W Forrest 1894 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia00lethiala#page/170/mode/2up/ "Ancient and Modern Political Divisions"]  page 170 ''The History of India'' by Sir Roper Lethbridge September 1900 edition, with corrections 1898 (First edition 1875)
*[https://archive.org/details/economichistoryo00dutt ''The Economic History of India under early British rule, from the rise of the British power in 1757 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837''] by Romesh Dutt 6th edition 1920 Archive.org. First published  c 1902.
:''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/in.ernet.dli.2015.276743/page/n261  India in 1907] page 226 ''More Changes More Chances'' by Henry W. Nevinson 1925 Archive.org. He was sent to India by the ''Manchester Guardian'' to report on the "unrest" movement, following which he wrote [https://archive.org/details/thenewspiritinin00neviiala/page/xii ''The New Spirit in India''] by  Henry W. Nevinson 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/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
*''Provincial Geographies of India'' 1913-23.
:[Volume 1] [https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra01holluoft ''The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir''] by Sir James Douie 1916. [Volume 2] [https://archive.org/details/GIPE003752 ''Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim''] by L S S O’Malley 1917. [Volume 3] [https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra03holluoft ''The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States''] by Edgar Thurston 1913. [Volume 4] [https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra04holluoft ''Burma''] by Sir Herbert Thirkell White 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/englandsdebttoin00lajp ''England's Debt to India: a Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy in India''] by Lajpat Rai 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishindia030566mbp ''British India from Queen Elizabeth to Lord Reading''] by an Indian Mahomedan 1926 Archive.org. Catalogued as ''British India''
*[https://archive.org/details/rthonmresmontagu00mont ''The Rt. Hon. Mr. E. S. Montagu on Indian Affairs''], published 1917. Archive.org. Mr Montagu was Secretary of State for India, in  Britain. Includes the Indian Budgets 1910-1913 and Mr Montagu’s views of the inefficiencies of the structure of Indian Government, as revealed by the Mesopotamian Commission.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12832/page/n7 ''Political Trouble In India 1907-1917''] by James Campbell Ker ICS. Reprint edition with Foreword and Bibliographical Note by Mahadevaprasad Saha. 1960. Archive.org.  First published 1917 as ''Secret and Confidential''. This report was a secret document provided to the Sedition Committee, see following ''Report'',  and "was the real source-book for the Committee" (page vii)
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45679/page/n15 1973 reprint of 1917 original] with  "About this book" by Jamna Das Akhtar. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/reportsed00indi ''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'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209606 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117736/mode/2up ''Disorders Inquiry Committee 1919-1920 : Report''] published 1920. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also see [[Massacre at Amritsar‎‎]] for volumes of evidence considered by this Committee.
*''Punjab Unrest Before And After''  by H N Mittra [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173517/page/n3 1920 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.214674/page/n5 2nd edition 1921] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95909/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Lost Dominion''] by Al. Carthill (pseudonym) 1922. Archive.org. Some  editions may have had the additional title ''A review of recent political events in India'', 1925 additional title ''The story of England's abdication in India''. The author's full name was Bennet Christian Huntingdon Calcraft-Kennedy (1871–1935), sometimes seen as B C Kennedy,  who went to India in 1891 and worked as a Collector and Judge in Bombay Presidency, retiring in 1926.<ref>[https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-1/  Kennedy papers] s-asian.cam.ac.uk; [https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-2/ s-asian.cam.ac.uk link 2]; <br>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OZI1aojDb1QC&pg=PA263 Page 263] ''Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930'' by Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker</ref>
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2027793 ''Histories Of The Non-Co-Operation And Khilafat Movements''] by P C Bamford 1925. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: An Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111310  Archive.org  Digital Library of India Collection]
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12160/page/n5 ''Communism In India [by<nowiki>]</nowiki> Sir Cecil Kaye with Unpublished Documents from National Archives of India (1919-1924)''] compiled and edited by Subodh Roy 1971 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. ''Communism In India'' first published 1925. The author had been Director of the Department of Central Intelligence. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kaye Cecil Kaye] Wikipedia. His daughter was the author [[M M Kaye]], see her autobiographies.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/statistics/ ''Statistical Abstract relating to British India''] HMSO . A broken range of various editions covering the period 1840 to 1920.  dsal.uchicago.edu.
*''The Indian Year Book. A Statistical and Historical Annual of the Indian Empire. With an explanation of the principal topics of the day''. First issued 1914. Edited by Sir Stanley Reed. [https://archive.org/details/indianyearbook6191unse '''1919''': Sixth year of issue] [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook6191unse#page/n51/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook6191unse#page/809/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/indianyearbook7192unse '''1920'''], [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook7192unse#page/n59/mode/2up  Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook7192unse#page/832/mode/2up Index] Archive.org.  [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Indian+Year+Book+%29+AND+creator%3A%28reed%29&sort=date Archive.org versions, filtered to show author Reed] There may be additional volumes showing other authors, or no author.
*''India in 19**-19**'': A statement prepared for presentation to Parliament, at least some editions by  L F Rushbrook Williams. Government of India Central Publication Branch
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/22031  ''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].
:On Archive.org, many being mirror versions from from Digital Library of India.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206372/page/n3/mode/2up  1917-18];    [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208123  1919];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209095  1920]; 
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39654  1921-22]; [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19221923031956mbp#page/n5/mode/2up  1922-23] (1923), [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19221923031956mbp#page/n13/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19221923031956mbp#page/n395/mode/2up Index]; [http://archive.org/stream/indiain192324035446mbp#page/n3/mode/2up  1923-24] (1924), [http://archive.org/stream/indiain192324035446mbp#page/n13/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/indiain192324035446mbp#page/n395/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32075  1924-25]; [https://archive.org/details/indiain19252600jcoa  1925-26] (1926)  [https://archive.org/stream/indiain19252600jcoa#page/n11/mode/2up Contents],  [https://archive.org/stream/indiain19252600jcoa#page/430/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.11534  1926-27];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.90420  1927-28];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38551  1928-29];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.11536  1929-30];
:[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n5/mode/2up  1930-1931] (1932), [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n11/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n759/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533163 1931-32];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209094  1932-33];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209099  1933-34];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210573/page/n3/mode/2up  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.
:[https://archive.org/details/indianrecorderap033569mbp  ''April-June 1932'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513939 ''July-September,1932'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513940 ''October-December,1932'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513938 ''January- March 1933''].
*''Indian Annual Register'' and ''Indian Quarterly Register''. 1923 title is ''Indian Annual Register:  Being an Annual Chronicle and Digest of Public Affairs of India in Matters Political, Educational, Economic, etc.'' [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Indian+Register%29+AND+creator%3A%28Mitra%29&sort=-date Editions available on Archive.org]. [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Indian+&filtertype_2=title&filter_relational_operator_2=contains&filter_2=Register&filtertype_4=title&filter_relational_operator_4=contains&filter_4=&submit_apply_filter=Apply&query=Indian+Register&scope=%2F Editions available on Digital Repository of GIPE as pdf downloads] Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].  Broken range 1919-1947.
*[https://archive.org/details/politicalsystemo029395mbp ''The Political System Of British India''] by E.A. Horne 1922 Archive.org.
* ''Report Of The Administration Of Lord Reading Viceroy And Governor General Of India (1921-1926)'' by J Coatman 1927. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209387  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
: ''Years Of Destiny India 1926-1932'' by J C Coatman 1932. Reprinted in 1985 as ''India The Years Of Struggle For Freedom''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.146303 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
: ''The Indian Riddle'' by John Coatman 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76920 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''The Indian Riddle: a Solution Suggested''
: ''India The Road To Self Government''  by John Coatman  1942. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.101141 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54058 ''Must England lose India? [The Nemesis of Empire<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Osburn 3rd edition December 1930 (first published May 1930]. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.  [https://archive.org/details/mustenglandlosei00osbu Archive.org Lending Library edition] possibly better print quality. This book was banned in India. The author had been in the RAMC.
*Indian chapters about events in India in 1930 commencing with  [https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/546 “Flight to India”] page 547''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. The India pages continue to page 593. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file], different edition with differing page numbers, India chapters commence  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n585 page 582] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. The author was then  an American foreign correspondent,  one of the most renowned of his day.
*[https://archive.org/details/TheSurrenderOfAnEmpireNestaHelenWebster/page/n305/mode/2up "The Surrender to Swaraj"] Chapter XVI page 296 ''The Surrender of an Empire'' by Nesta H. Webster 1931 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210780/page/n5 ''Rise And Fulfilment Of British Rule In India''] by  Edward Thompson  and G T Garratt 2nd edition 1935, first published 1934. Archive.org. A history.
*''Turmoil & Tragedy in India 1914 and After'' by Lt Gen Sir George MacMunn  1935.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177667 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''The White Sahibs in India'' by Reginald Reynolds 1937. Full title  : ''The White Sahibs in India. An examination of British rule in India''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278381 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/budgetfor1941194033334mbp ''Budget For 1941-1942''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216654/page/n5  ''Strangers In India''] by Penderel Moon 1944 Archive.org
* ''The British In India'' by  Sir Percival  J  Griffiths 1946.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/churchillcrippsi0000moor/page/n7 ''Churchill, Cripps, and India, 1939-1945''] by  R J Moore (Robin James)  1979. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishinasia033318mbp ''The British In Asia''] by Guy Wint 1947 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by  C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes many chapters about India, from the early days of the East India Company to 1947.
*[https://archive.org/details/1950-while-memory-serves-by-tuker/mode/2up ''While Memory Serves'']  by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker. Digital reprint edition  reproduced by Sani H Panhwar, originally published 1950. Archive.org. Covers the two years 1946 and 1947, "told by one who watched events from the Headquarters of Eastern Command" of the Indian Army, (he was G.O.C. in C.),  including riots and bloodshed in Calcutta, the Punjab and elsewhere.
* ''India and the Passing of Empire'' by Sir George  Dunbar 1951. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526521 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''The British Impact on India'' by  Sir Percival  J  Griffiths 1952. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526461  Archive.org  version],  mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The Men Who Ruled India'', published in three volumes,  ''The Founders'' (1953), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126942  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India;  ''The Guardians, Volume I'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127071 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India;  and  ''The Guardians, Volume lI'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127070 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India; (1954) by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym). The author was Philip Mason who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1928.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.2624/page/n5/mode/2up  ''The Transfer of Power in India 1945-7''] by E W R Lumby 1954 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/transferofpowerinindiamenonv.p._948_q/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Transfer of Power in India''] by V P Menon 1957 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19551/page/n5 ''The Last Days of the British Raj''] by Leonard Mosley 1960 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/martiallawinindi0000mina ''Martial Law in India, Pakistan and Ceylon''] by Joseph Minattur 1962. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/LastYearsOfBritishIndia ''The Last Years of British India''] by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.org. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449456 Archive.org version 2].
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12619/page/n7 ''Asia In The European Age 1498-1955''] by  Michael Edwardes  1961. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/westinasia18501900edwa/page/n7 ''The West in Asia, 1850-1914''] by Michael Edwardes 1967.  Archive.org Lending Library. Covers European powers and Great Britain, including India, Burma, Malaya, North Borneo.
*[https://archive.org/details/illusionofperman0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Illusion of Permanence : British Imperialism in India''] by Francis G Hutchins 1967. [https://archive.org/details/illusionofperman0000unse/page/n19/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*A trilogy about the rise and decline of Queen Victoria’s Empire by James, who became, Jan Morris, published 1968-78. Includes chapters about India.  Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library unless otherwise indicated.
:[https://archive.org/details/heavenscommandim00morr ''Heaven's Command : an Imperial Progress''] by James Morris 1980, first published 1973.
:[https://archive.org/details/paxbritannicacli0000morr/page/n9/mode/2up ''Pax Britannica : the Climax of an Empire''] by James Morris 1968. [https://archive.org/details/paxbritannicacli0000morr_g9y5/page/n3/mode/2up File 2].
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553288/page/n3/mode/2up ''Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat''] by James Morris 1979, first published 1978. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/farewelltrumpets00janm/page/n11/mode/2up File 2] 1978. [https://archive.org/details/farewelltrumpets00morr/page/n3/mode/2up File 3] 1980.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatdividebrita0000hods/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Great Divide: Britain, India, Pakistan''] by H V Hodson 1969 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/administrativehi0000misr/page/n5 ''The Administrative History of India, 1834-1947; General Administration''] by B B  Misra 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.
*''The Transfer of Power 1942-7''. Editor in Chief Nicholas Mansergh, Editor Penderel Moon. Published in 12 volumes 1970- 1983  HMSO. Title page includes the additional title ''Constitutional Relations between Britain and India''. Unpublished documents from  the India Office Records.
:''v. 1. The Cripps Mission, January-April 1942.--v. 2. Quit India, 30 April-21 September 1942.--v. 3. Reassertion of authority, Gandhi's fast, and the succession to the Viceroyalty, 21 September 1942-12 June 1943.--v. 4. The Bengal famine and the new Viceroyalty, 15 June 1943-31 August 1944.--v. 5. The Simla Conference, background and proceedings, 1 September 1944-28 July 1945.--v. 6. The post-war phase: new moves by the Labour Government, 1 August 1945-22 March 1946.--v. 7. The cabinet mission, 23 March-29 June 1946.--v. 8. The interim government, 3 July-1 November, 1946.--v. 9. The fixing of a time limit, 4 November 1946-22 March 1947.--v. 10. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, formation of a plan, 22 March-30 May 1947.--v. 11. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty announcement and reception of the 3 June plan 31 May-7 July 1947.--v. 12. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, princes, partition, and independence, 8 July-15 August 1947''.
:[https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10001unse/page/n7 Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10002unse/page/n7 Vol. 2], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10003unse/page/n9 Vol. 3], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10004unse/page/n9 Vol. 4], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10005unse/page/n9 Vol. 5], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10006unse/page/n9 Vol. 6], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10007unse/page/n7 Vol. 7], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10008unse/page/n9 Vol. 8], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10009unse/page/n7 Vol. 9], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10010unse/page/n7 Vol. 10],  [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10011unse/page/n7 Vol. 11], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10012unse/page/n7 Vol. 12] Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/solespokesmanjinnahmuslimleaguethedemandforpakistanayeshajalalcup_781_y/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the  Muslim League and the demand for Pakistan''] by  Ayesha Jalal  1994 edition, first published 1985 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shamefulflightla00wolp ''Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India''] by Stanley A. Wolpert 2006 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Wx9DQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''Partition: The story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947''] by Barney White-Spunner 2017.  Sample pages only, Google Books.
*Also see [[Life in India#Historical books online 6|Life in India-Departure and Connections]] for books about independence in 1947.
*[https://archive.org/details/thearabianfrontierofthebritishrajmerchantsrulersandthebritishinthenineteenthcenturygulf/mode/2up ''The Arabian Frontier Of The British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, And The British In The Nineteenth Century Gulf''] by James Onley 2007. Archive.org.
:Article [https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa"] by James Onley. ''Asian Affairs, vol. XL, no. I, March 2009'' socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk.
 
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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.

See also

External links

Historical books online

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.

Volume I [1670-1688]; Vol. II [1688-1757]; Vol. III [1757-1785]. Links to pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
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.
The History of the British Empire in India...1844 to 1862: Forming a Sequel to Thornton's History of India Vol 1, by Lionel James Trotter (1866) Google Books, Vol 2 (Archive.org)
India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma by J Talboys Wheeler 1899 Printed in New York. Volume I, Volume II Includes a supplementary chapter in Volume II, but otherwise the text is probably the same.
  • 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 Cambridge History of India published 1922-1932.
Volume V British India 1497-1858 edited by H H Dodwell 1928
Volume VI The Indian Empire 1858-1918. With chapters on the development of Administration 1818-1858 edited by H H Dodwell 1932
Earlier volumes in the series All 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 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 Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
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].
On Archive.org, many being mirror versions from from Digital Library of India.
1917-18; 1919; 1920;
1921-22; 1922-23 (1923), Contents, Index; 1923-24 (1924), Contents, Index; 1924-25; 1925-26 (1926) Contents, Index; 1926-27; 1927-28; 1928-29; 1929-30;
1930-1931 (1932), Contents, Index; 1931-32; 1932-33; 1933-34; 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, mirror from Digital Library of India.
The Indian Riddle by John Coatman 1932. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: The Indian Riddle: a Solution Suggested
India The Road To Self Government by John Coatman 1942. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
Asia In The European Age 1498-1955 by Michael Edwardes 1961. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
The West in Asia, 1850-1914 by Michael Edwardes 1967. Archive.org Lending Library. Covers European powers and Great Britain, including India, Burma, Malaya, North Borneo.
  • The Illusion of Permanence : British Imperialism in India by Francis G Hutchins 1967. Contents. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
  • A trilogy about the rise and decline of Queen Victoria’s Empire by James, who became, Jan Morris, published 1968-78. Includes chapters about India. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library unless otherwise indicated.
Heaven's Command : an Imperial Progress by James Morris 1980, first published 1973.
Pax Britannica : the Climax of an Empire by James Morris 1968. File 2.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by James Morris 1979, first published 1978. Archive.org. File 2 1978. File 3 1980.
v. 1. The Cripps Mission, January-April 1942.--v. 2. Quit India, 30 April-21 September 1942.--v. 3. Reassertion of authority, Gandhi's fast, and the succession to the Viceroyalty, 21 September 1942-12 June 1943.--v. 4. The Bengal famine and the new Viceroyalty, 15 June 1943-31 August 1944.--v. 5. The Simla Conference, background and proceedings, 1 September 1944-28 July 1945.--v. 6. The post-war phase: new moves by the Labour Government, 1 August 1945-22 March 1946.--v. 7. The cabinet mission, 23 March-29 June 1946.--v. 8. The interim government, 3 July-1 November, 1946.--v. 9. The fixing of a time limit, 4 November 1946-22 March 1947.--v. 10. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, formation of a plan, 22 March-30 May 1947.--v. 11. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty announcement and reception of the 3 June plan 31 May-7 July 1947.--v. 12. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, princes, partition, and independence, 8 July-15 August 1947.
Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8, Vol. 9, Vol. 10, Vol. 11, Vol. 12 Archive.org Lending Library.
Article "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley. Asian Affairs, vol. XL, no. I, March 2009 socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk.

References

  1. ↑ Kennedy papers s-asian.cam.ac.uk; s-asian.cam.ac.uk link 2;
    Page 263 Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930 by Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker

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