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:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia09jackiala Volume 9]  ''Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental'', by A.V.W. Jackson
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia09jackiala Volume 9]  ''Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental'', by A.V.W. Jackson
*[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
*[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
*[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


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Revision as of 10:30, 12 January 2013

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 online books

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 Please note the dates that these have been written in order to be aware that some of the content may be outdated or incompatible with modern sensibilites.

  • 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