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*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892 Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892 Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
*''Notes from a Diary: Kept chiefly in Southern India, 1881-1886'' by the Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff 1899. [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary00duffgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary13duffgoog Volume II]  Archive.org. The author was Governor of Madras.
*''Notes from a Diary: Kept chiefly in Southern India, 1881-1886'' by the Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff 1899. [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary00duffgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary13duffgoog Volume II]  Archive.org. The author was Governor of Madras.
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00drurrich ''Reminiscences of Life and Sport in Southern India''] by Colonel Heber Drury, late Madras Staff Corps and Assistant Resident in Travancore and Cochin  1890 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/roughingitinsout00handrich ''Roughing it in Southern India''] by Mrs M A  Handley  1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a [[Forestry|Forest Officer]].
*[https://archive.org/details/roughingitinsout00handrich ''Roughing it in Southern India''] by Mrs M A  Handley  1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a [[Forestry|Forest Officer]].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/461199 ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.''] by  W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. The author was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882.  Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/461199 ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.''] by  W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. The author was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882.  Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version].
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*''The Engineering Works Of The Kistna Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by  George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1899. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt Volume I] with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt/The_engineering_works_of_the_Kistna_delt#page/n19/mode/2up  Map of the Kistna River Basin], now known as the Krishna River. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt1 Volume II] Archive.org
*''The Engineering Works Of The Kistna Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by  George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1899. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt Volume I] with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt/The_engineering_works_of_the_Kistna_delt#page/n19/mode/2up  Map of the Kistna River Basin], now known as the Krishna River. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt1 Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra03holluoft ''The Madras Presidency with Mysore,  Coorg and the Associated States''] by Edgar Thurston 1913 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India''.  
*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra03holluoft ''The Madras Presidency with Mysore,  Coorg and the Associated States''] by Edgar Thurston 1913 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India''.  
*[https://archive.org/details/southernindia00pennuoft ''Southern India''] Painted by Lady Lawler, Described by F E Penny 1914 Archive.org
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100500603 ''Southern India, its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources''], comp. by Somerset Playne, assisted by J. W. Bond, ed. by Arnold Wright. 1914 Hathi Trust Digital Library, restricted to those in some areas such as North America. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8WNEcgMr11kC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] including Contents. Google Books
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100500603 ''Southern India, its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources''], comp. by Somerset Playne, assisted by J. W. Bond, ed. by Arnold Wright. 1914 Hathi Trust Digital Library, restricted to those in some areas such as North America. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8WNEcgMr11kC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] including Contents. Google Books
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/281893 ''Routes In Maddras District'' 1922] Title as catalogued. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281893  Archive.org version]. Publications about ''Routes'' were generally published by the Quartermaster General's Department.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/281893 ''Routes In Maddras District'' 1922] Title as catalogued. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281893  Archive.org version]. Publications about ''Routes'' were generally published by the Quartermaster General's Department.

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An adminsitrative subdivision of British India. The Madras Presidency covered the southern half of India and Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka).

See Presidencies in the Beginners' Guide

Maps

See also

External Links

Historical books online

Also see Madras (City)

Many editions are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, under the title Madras District Gazetteers
1862-63 1864, 1864-65 1866, 1865-66 1866, 1867-68 1868, 1868-69 1869 Google Books; 1869-70 1870, 1870-71 1872 Archive.org
  • The Indian Official Thesaurus‬: ‪Being Introductory to Annals of Indian Administration Compiled by Meredith Townsend 1858‬ ‪Google Books. A guide to records.
  • The Annals of Indian Administration, edited by Meredith Townsend and later George Smith. Selected extracts from the Records of the Indian, Bengal, Madras Bombay, NWP, and Punjab and perhaps other Governments. Google Books. Many additional volumes up to Volume 19 1873-74 may be viewed online on the Digital Library of India website.
  • Madras Almanac and Directory.There were various titles over time.The following books are available to read online on Digital Library of India website.
    • The Madras Almanac and Compendium of Intelligence
      • 1857 Summary of contents, computer page 6, detailed contents, computer page 8
    • The Madras New Almanac and Compendium of Intelligence
      • 1861 Summary of contents, computer page 8, detailed contents, computer page 10
    • The Asylum Press Almanack and Directory of Madras and Southern India
      • 1918 Includes Burma. Summary of Contents, computer page 26. General Index missing.
      • 1919 Includes Burma. Summary of Contents, computer page 30. General Index commences computer page 2116, but is only two pages A- Bolarum
      • 1924 Includes Nizam’s Dominions, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin. Contents, computer page 44
      • 1925 Includes Nizam’s Dominions, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin. Contents, Computer page 54
      • 1928.Includes Nizam’s Dominions, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin. Contents, computer page 78
  • Manual of Rules and Regulations compiled for the use of Junior Members of the Madras Civil Service. Brought up to 31st January 1870‬ by William Donald Google Books
  • Memoirs of the life and correspondence of the Reverend Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a Sketch of the history of Christianity in India by Hugh Pearson, Dean of Salisbury 2nd Edition 1835 Volume I, II, First American edition (abridged) 1835 Google Books
  • The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org
Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861
A Handbook to the Ports on the Coast of India between Calcutta and Bombay, including the Island of Ceylon by Herbert Samuel Brown, Lieutenant, R.N.R. Port and Customs Officer, Mangalore. 1897. British Library Digital Collection.