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== Cemeteries==
* Dutch Cemetery
* English Cemetery dates from 1600s - for detail and some tomb images see [http://dro.dur.ac.uk/3774/ The English cemetery at Surat : pre-colonial cultural encounters in western India]Refer External links, below. Durham University
== Railways ==
Surat was originally the southern terminus of the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]] until that line was extended to [[Bombay]]. A broad gauge branch ran eastwards along the Tapti valley to connect with the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] at [[Amalner]] in [[Khandesh]].
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=23&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V23_170.gif Surat City] Imperial Gazetteer
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/malabar/surat/surat.html Surat] from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/malabar/malabar.html From the Gulf of Cambay on down the Malabar Coast, c.1700s-1850s: ports (with forts)] from Prof Fran Pritchett’s [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routes/index.html#dates Indian Routes] (Columbia University)
*[http://dro.dur.ac.uk/3774/ "The English cemetery at Surat : pre-colonial cultural encounters in western India"] by C Scarre and J Roberts, ''Antiquaries journal 85'', 2005 . pp. 250-291. [http://dro.dur.ac.uk/3774/1/3774.pdf Direct Pdf link] Durham University website,
*[https://thewire.in/history/surats-forgotten-cemeteries "Of Surat's Neglected Colonial Cemeteries and the Grandiose Dreams of the Nabobs"] by Sidharth Bhatia 28 April 2018. thewire.in
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20038986 Images from a 16th century book] by Italian adventure traveller Ludovico De Varthema. De Varthema toured India extensively from 1502 to 1508. The book was first published in Rome in 1510 www.bbc.co.uk. Includes images of the Kingdom of Cambay
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/First-English-factory-in-India-in-ruins/articleshow/20622537.cms First English factory in India in Ruins] timesofindia.com
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Includes Surat.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NmpCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4 ''A Voyage to Suratt: In the Year, 1689''] by John Ovington. Chaplain to his Majesty. 1696 Google Books
:[httphttps://oudlarchive.org/details/in.osmaniaernet.acdli.in/handle/OUDL/11892 2015.234161 ''A Voyage To Surat In The Year 1689''] by John Ovington, edited by H G Rawlinson, with commentary, 1929 is available to download as a pdf from [[Online books|Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL<nowiki>]</nowiki>]]. Restricted download hours may possibly applyArchive. This book is also available on the org, mirror from Digital Library of India as a [http://www.new.dli.ernetSome words may be missing due to the scanning.in/handle/2015/234161 pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.234161 voyagetosuratiny00jovi/page/n7/mode/2up 1994 reprint of the 1929 edition] Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India''] by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n15/mode/2up Contents]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=71UOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA317 "Origin of the English Establishment, and of the Company's Trade, at Broach and at Surat"] page 317 ''Historical fragments of the Mogul empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English concerns in Indostan from the year MDCLIX; origin of the company's trade at Broach and Surat, and a general idea of the government and people of Indostan; to which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author'' by Robert Orme 1805 Google Books. First published 1782
*[http://archive.org/stream/britishbeginning00rawlrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''British Beginnings in Western India 1579-1657 : An account of the early days of the British factory at Surat''] by H G Rawlinson MA (1920) archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.108302/page/n7/mode/2up ''Surat in the Seventeenth Century''] by Balkrishna Govind Gokhale 1978. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph Series No. 28. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/458/mode/2up "Surat"] page 458 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
