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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=66Hu-9OPWL4C&printsec=frontcover ''The Ceylon Gazetteer; containing an accurate account of the districts, provinces, cities, towns, principal villages, harbours, rivers, lakes &c. of the Island of Ceylon, together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history of its various inhabitants''] 1834 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zB9YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Appeal to the British Government in behalf the British Colony and Province of Ceylon: with an appendix containing various notices of the island by authors and travellers of the early and middle ages''] by William Peter 2nd Edition with Additions 1836. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SiBYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 1st Edition 1835] Google Books .
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h2APAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Slave Trade (East India). [Also<nowiki>]</nowiki> Slavery in Ceylon'']. Correspondence between the Directors of the East India Company and the Company's Government in India, on the subject of Slavery. Communications relating to Slavery in the Island of Ceylon. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 31 July 1838. Google Books
*''Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire from the Official Records of the Colonial Office'' by Robert Montgomery Martin 1839 Google Books. ''Book IV- Possessions in Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PvtqMe2cxhoC&pg=PA369 "Chapter II Ceylon"] pages 369-402
*[https://archive.org/details/oldceylonsketche00capp ''Old Ceylon, Sketches of Ceylon Life in the Olden Time''] by John Capper 1877 Archive.org. Generally refers to a period 30 to 40 years prior ie c 1840s
