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:For details of Eileen Hewson's booki ncluding purchase, see [http://www.bacsa.org.uk/?page_id=875 BACSA Books] - select Cemetery Record Books.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111110162100/http://www.scribd.com/doc/67434923/Growing-Up-in-Assam ''Growing Up in Assam: A Personal Story''] by Amrit Baruah 2011. The author was born c. late 1920s and his father was a magistrate, then Additional Judge. scribd.com, now archived. [http://documents.mx/documents/growing-up-in-assam.html Alternative version] documents.mx
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1902-list-of-inscriptions-on-tombs-or-monuments-in-assam-by-francis-pdf/ ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Assam''] 1902. Pdf download, PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zek2AQAAMAAJ Google Books version] now appears to be available full view.
*Fiction
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40751 ''The Old Man of the Mountain''] by Herbert Strang 1916 Gutenberg.org. Partially set in Assam, in the region around [[Dibrugarh]], and an unexplored region of northern India or perhaps part of China. An adventure story for younger readers.
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14076 ''The Elephant God''] by Gordon Casserly 1921 Gutenberg.org.
*:[https://archive.org/details/junglegirl00cass_0/page/n5 ''The Jungle Girl''] by Gordon Casserly 1922 Archive.org
Fiction books removed to reduce number of external links - personal blog removed - cemetery book link moved to make it easier to identify
:A comprehensive list of MIs with biographical notes, district by district, including records from churches, 1783-2003. 184pp, 5 illustrations ISBN 0 907799 82 5
:This book is thought to include at least some entries from ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs Or Monuments in Assam'' published in 1902 at Shillong (120 pages) available online, refer below.
:[[BACSA]] have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
:The above publication is now also available as part of a pdf publication [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/india-publications/burials-in-assam-n-e-india-1793-1974-pdf-format/ ''Burials In Assam & N.E. India 1793-1974''] by Eileen Hewson, from Kabristan Archives.
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1902-list-of-inscriptions-on-tombs-or-monuments-in-assam-by-francis-pdf/ ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Assam''] 1902. Pdf download, PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zek2AQAAMAAJ Google Books version] now appears to be available full view.
==Passport application records at the Assam State Archives==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110127111459/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/riversandcanals/6054086/Cruising-Navigating-Indias-unknown-waters.html "River Cruising in Assam"] ''The Daily Telegraph'', 19 August 2009 [retrieved 7 February, 2010], mentions Kaziranga National Park, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for its unique natural environment.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaziranga Kaziranga National Park] Wikipedia
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924193133/http://www.msp.unimelb.edu.au/missions/index.php/missions/article/viewFile/4/25 "Sex and Salvation: Modelling Gender on an Indian Mission Station"] by Andrew Brown-May. The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) in the Khasi Hills of north-east India. From [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924175711/http://www.msp.unimelb.edu.au/missions/index.php/missions ''Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History''] University of Melbourne 2008, now archived pages. The book ''Welsh missionaries and British imperialism: The empire of clouds in north-east India'' by Andrew May was published in 2012 by Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism), refer Recommended reading, above.
*[http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/2478 ''Historical Account of British Legacy in the Naga Hills (1881-1947)''] by Joseph Longkumer, Phd Thesis 2011, Department of History, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth University, Pune
===Historical books online===
*''Routes in Asia''. Office of Quarter Master General in India. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TfD2sIfC5F8C&pg=PP7 ''Section 6. pt. 1. Routes in Nepaul. pt. 2. Routes in Bhutan. pt. 3. Routes in Sikhim. Pt 4. Routes in Thibet. pt. 5. Routes in Burmah. pt. 6. Routes between Assam and Burmah''] compiled ... by H.S. Brownrigg, Rifle Brigade. 1878 Google Books
*[http://archive.org/stream/statisticalaccou01huntuoft#page/n6/mode/1up ''A Statistical Account of Assam Volume I''] by W W Hunter 1879 (archive.org)<br>
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/18561 ''Monograph on the Iron and Steel Work [of Eastern Bengal and Assam<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']. 1907.
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n5 ''Pflanzerleben in Indien kulturgeschichtliche bilder aus Assám''] by Oscar Flex 1873 Archive.org. German language. [http://www.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de/index.php/artikel/1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Extract from the book] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. German language. ([https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n71 page 63]), [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de%2Findex.php%2Fartikel%2F1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Google Translate English version of the extract] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. Article with details of the book [https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/an-european-s-account-of-assam/cid/443929 "An European's account of Assam"] by Arup Kumar Dutta 5.03.12 ''The Telegraph (India)''.
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