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This is a '''temporary''' holding page for titles submitted without a review.  
'''PLEASE NOTE:''' This is a '''temporary''' holding page for titles submitted without review. These titles will be removed from this page once a review is submitted or if they are not reviewed within six months.


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If you have read any of the following titles and are prepared to submit a review this would be most appreciated, as the entry can then be moved to the appropriate reading list. .  


If you have read any of the following titles and are prepared to add a review this would be most appreciated, as the entry can then be moved to the appropriate reading list.
Contributors wishing to add titles to the Recommended Reading Lists should send these  together with a short review to the [mailto:fibis-webmaster@fibis.org Webmaster] for consideration. Please take the time to say what the title is about and why it is recommended using the [[Guidelines for contributing to the Recommended Reading Lists | the guidelines]] as a basis for your entry


====Biographical====


* Bennett, Mary
''Who was Dr Jackson? : two Calcutta families, 1830-55''.
London: BACSA, 2002


====General History====


* Burton, David
====Locations====
''The Raj at table''. London: Faber, 1994


====Architecture====


* Yule, Henry
====Military History ====
''Hobson-Jobson : a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive'', by Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell.  London: Routledge, 1886


There is a limited view of a later edition here at [http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hobson-Jobson#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google Books]
====Railway Interest====




* ''The Asiatic annual register, or, A view of the history of Hindustan, and of the politics, commerce and literature of Asia''. [Online version]  London: Cadell & Davies, 1799-1811
====Miscellaneous====


In addition to standard information, these include many items about shipping, including ships hired for the season, and loss of ships.
== References ==
 
<references />
All editions are fully available at Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Asiatic_Annual_Register|our index to volumes]].
 
 
* ''The Asiatic journal and monthly miscellany/register''. [Online version] London: W.H. Allen, 1816-1845.
 
In addition to standard information, these include many items about shipping, including ships hired for the season, and loss of ships.
 
Google Books provides many editions (there were two per year until 1829, then three)  to view online or download.  FIBIwiki has an [[Asiatic Journal|index to available editions]].
 
 
* ''The Calcutta annual register 1821''. [Online version] Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, 1823
 
Available to view or download on [http://books.google.com/books?id=26sEAAAAQAAJ Google Books].
 
 
*''The Oriental magazine, and Calcutta review'' [Online version] 1823
 
Available to view or download on Google Books: [http://books.google.com/books?id=0hkoAAAAYAAJ Volume 1, Jan-June 1823] [http://books.google.com/books?id=HRooAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, July-December 1823]
 
 
* ''The Oriental herald and colonial review'' / edited by James Silk Buckingham. [Online version]  London: Sandford Arnot
 
Available to view or download on Google Books.  See [[Directories_online#Oriental_Herald_and_Colonial_Review|our index to volumes]].
 
 
* ''Parbury's  oriental herald and colonial intelligencer''. [Online version] London: Parbury & Co
 
Available to view or download on Google Books.  See [[Directories_online#Parbury.27s_Oriental_Herald_and_Colonial_Intelligencer|our index to volumes]].
 
 
* ''The Quarterly oriental magazine, review and register''. [Online version] Calcutta: Thacker
 
Available to view or download on Google Books.  See [[Directories_online#Quarterly_Oriental_Magazine.2C_Review_and_Register|our index to volumes]].
 
 
* ''The Calcutta Christian observer''. [Online version] Calcutta: Thacker & Co. 
 
Volumes 1-5 include listings of births, marriages, deaths, however the later volumes seem to be limited to missionaries etc. Available to view or download on Google Books.  See [[Directories_online#Calcutta_Christian_Observer|our index to volumes]].
 
 
* ''Calcutta magazine and monthly register''. [Online Version]  Calcutta: S. Smith & Co.
 
Available to view or download on Google Books.  See [[Directories_online#Calcutta_Magazine_and_Monthly_Register|our index to volumes]].  Note that page numbers in some of  volumes seem not to be consecutive, perhaps due to the way they have been bound or filmed.
 
 
* ''Calcutta monthly journal and general register''. [Online version] Calcutta: Samuel Smith & Son
 
Several editions are available on Google Books.  See [[Directories_online#Calcutta_Monthly_Journal|our index to volumes]].
 
 
* ''The Calcutta monthly register''.  [Online version] Vol 1, November 1790.
 
This is one of a number of directories from the late 1700’s available on the website [http://www.gale.cengage.com/DigitalCollections/products/ecco/index.htm Eighteenth Century Collections Online] (ECCO - a part of Gale Digital Collections).The access is restricted to library card holders (usually residents) of participating libraries, including the National Libraries of [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/index.html Scotland], [http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=otherresourcesa-z Wales], [http://www.nli.ie/en/eresources.aspx Ireland], [http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/list/licenced/e Australia], [http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm State Library of NSW], and many Universities.
Most of the original books are in the British Library. ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.
 
 
* ''The Oriental magazine; or, Calcutta amusement''. [Online version] 1785.
 
These is one of a number of directories from the late 1700’s available on the website [http://www.gale.cengage.com/DigitalCollections/products/ecco/index.htm Eighteenth Century Collections Online] (ECCO- A part of Gale Digital Collections).The access is restricted to library card holders (usually residents) of participating libraries, including the National Libraries of [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/index.html Scotland], [http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=otherresourcesa-z Wales], [http://www.nli.ie/en/eresources.aspx Ireland], [http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/list/licenced/e Australia], [http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm State Library of NSW], and many Universities.
Most of the original books are in the British Library. ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.
 
 
 
*''The History of British India'' by James Mill 1817 [http://books.google.com/books?id=1ncIAAAAQAAJ Volume 1, (Books 1, 2, 3)], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zv8LAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, (Books 4, 5,1708-1784)],  [http://books.google.com/books?id=gXgIAAAAQAAJ Volume 3 (Book 6,1784-1805)]
*''The History of British India 1805 to 1835'' by Horace Hayman Wilson 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=wxINAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=cBINAAAAYAAJ Volume 2 from 1813], [http://books.google.com/books?id=8swNAAAAIAAJ Volume 3 from 1823]
 
 
*''The History of the British Empire in India'' by George Robert Gleig [http://books.google.com/books?id=05ADAAAAQAAJ Volume 1], pub. 1830, [http://books.google.com/books?id=61YOAAAAQAAJ Volume 2], pub. 1835, [http://books.google.com/books?id=HFcOAAAAQAAJ Volume 3], pub. 1835, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_5ADAAAAQAAJ Volume 4], pub. 1835
 
 
*''Chapters of the Modern History of British India'' by Edward Thornton 1840 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nzhYz6Et_VAC  Google Books ]
*''The History of the British Empire in India'' by Edward Thornton [http://books.google.com/books?id=u4MfAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], pub. 1841,[http://books.google.com/books?id=yYYfAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, 1766-1798], pub. 1842, [http://books.google.com/books?id=B4MfAAAAYAAJ Volume 3, 1797-1805], pub. 1842, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rQRXAAAAMAAJ Volume 4, 1805-1819], pub. 1843, [http://books.google.com/books?id=kB4NAAAAYAAJ Volume 5, 1823-1833], pub. 1843 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GGYBAAAAQAAJ Volume 6], pub. 1845. 2nd edition  1859 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ  Google Books] 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]
 
*''The History of the British Empire in India: From the Appointment of Lord Hardinge to the Political Extinction of the East-India Company, 1844 to 1862 : Forming a Sequel to Thornton's History of India'' by Lionel James Trotter 1866 [http://books.google.com/books?id=zIMfAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historybritishe00trotgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 2] (Archive.org)
 
 
*''Political and Military Events in British India: From the Years 1756 to 1849'' by William Hough 1853 .Volume 1 (to 1814) and Volume  2 (1814-1849) are in the same link; index for Volume 2 is at page 371 (following on from Volume 1), then Volume 2 page numbers recommence from page 1. [http://books.google.com/books?id=CI0cAAAAMAAJ Google Books]
 
 
*''A History of the Mahrattas'' by James Grant Duff 1826 [http://books.google.com/books?id=FKQ9AAAAMAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=K_cRAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, 1740-1785], [http://books.google.com/books?id=qqU9AAAAMAAJ  Volume 3, 1784-1819] Google Books
 
 
*''The English in Western India: being the early history of the factory at Surat, of Bombay, and the subordinate factories on the western coast'' by Philip Anderson 1854 [http://books.google.com/books?id=RQ8NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 Google Books]
 
 
 
====Personal Accounts====
*''Ten Years in India: or, The Life of a Young Officer'' by Albert Henry Andrew Hervey of the 40th Regiment Madras Infantry 1850<br> [http://books.google.com/books?id=mrlFAAAAIAAJ Volume 1],  [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnQIAAAAQAAJ Volume 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=oHQIAAAAQAAJ Volume 3] Google Books<br>
:A later edition was published in 1988 as ''A soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign, 1833-43''.
 
*''Narrative of the Campaign of the Indus in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9'' by Richard Hartley Kennedy M.D.  Chief of the Medical Staff of the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus. 1840 [http://books.google.com/books?id=BmVEAAAAIAAJ Volume 1] [http://books.google.com/books?id=UWVEAAAAIAAJ Volume 2] Google Books
 
*''Narrative of a Three Month's March in India'' by Harriette Ashmore, Wife of an Officer in the 16th Foot London 1841 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ru5uMbaqSN8C&pg=PR1 Google Books]
 
*''Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as It Is'' by John Mercier McMullen, a late Staff Sergeant of the [HM] 13th Light Infantry 1846 [http://books.google.com/books?id=6OcKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR6 Google Books]
 
*''Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India from 1854 to 1863'' by Sir Sydney Cotton 1868  [http://books.google.com/books?id=qZxCAAAAIAAJ Google Books]
 
====Regimental histories====
*''Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment: Containing an Account of the Establishment of Independent Companies in 1645; Their Formation Into a Regiment in 1748; and Its Subsequent Services to 1842'' by James George Smith Neill, Staff Officer published 1843. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MoUfAAAAYAAJ Google Books]
 
*''Services of the 102nd regiment of foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers), from 1842 to the present time; being a sequel to the "Services of the Madras European regiment, by a staff officer".'' by Thomas Raikes 1867 [http://books.google.com/books?id=ybQnAAAAYAAJ Google Books]
 
*''Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: from the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of its Internal Organization''  by Captain E. Buckle, 1852 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qtugAAAAMAAJ Google Books]
 
*''History of the Services of the Madras Artillery, with a Sketch of the Rise of the Power of the East India Company in Southern India'' by Peter James Begbie 1852 Volume 1 (to 1810) [http://books.google.com/books?id=ikMIAAAAQAAJ Google Books]






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Latest revision as of 18:53, 10 December 2021

PLEASE NOTE: This is a temporary holding page for titles submitted without review. These titles will be removed from this page once a review is submitted or if they are not reviewed within six months.

If you have read any of the following titles and are prepared to submit a review this would be most appreciated, as the entry can then be moved to the appropriate reading list. .

Contributors wishing to add titles to the Recommended Reading Lists should send these together with a short review to the Webmaster for consideration. Please take the time to say what the title is about and why it is recommended using the the guidelines as a basis for your entry

Biographical

General History

Locations

Architecture

Military History

Railway Interest

Miscellaneous

References