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Biographical

• Allen, Charles

Duel In the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa by Charles Allen (2004)

• Bennett, Mary

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

• Pears, Walford

Schreyvogel's Mission: Lindau to Trichinopoly Pub 2011. Daniel Schreyvogel was a missionary in Tranquebar from 1803 to 1826.

Directories and Journals

• 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

In addition to standard information, these include many items about shipping, including ships hired for the season, and loss of ships. All editions are fully available at Google Books. See 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 index to available editions.

• The Oriental magazine, and Calcutta review [Online version] 1823

Available to view or download on Google Books: Volume 1, Jan-June 1823 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 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 Newspapers and journals online for index to online volumes.

• The Quarterly oriental magazine, review and register. [Online version] Calcutta: Thacker

Available to view or download on Google Books. See 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 our index to volumes.

• Calcutta magazine and monthly register. [Online Version] Calcutta: S. Smith & Co.

Available to view or download on Google Books. See 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 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 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 Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, 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 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 Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, 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.

General History

• The History of British India by James Mill 1817 Volume 1, (Books 1, 2, 3), Volume 2, (Books 4, 5,1708-1784), Volume 3 (Book 6,1784-1805)

• The History of British India 1805 to 1835 by Horace Hayman Wilson 1848 Volume 1, Volume 2 from 1813, Volume 3 from 1823

• The History of the British Empire in India by George Robert Gleig Volume 1, pub. 1830, Volume 2, pub. 1835, Volume 3, pub. 1835, Volume 4, pub. 1835

• Chapters of the Modern History of British India by Edward Thornton 1840 Google Books
• The History of the British Empire in India by Edward Thornton Volume 1, pub. 1841,Volume 2, 1766-1798, pub. 1842, Volume 3, 1797-1805, pub. 1842, Volume 4, 1805-1819, pub. 1843, Volume 5, 1823-1833, pub. 1843 Volume 6, pub. 1845. 2nd edition 1859 Google Books with an “entirely new and enlarged glossary", chronological index, and 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 Volume 1, 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. Google Books

• A History of the Mahrattas by James Grant Duff 1826 Volume 1, Volume 2, 1740-1785, Volume 3, 1784-1819 Google Books

• European Adventurers Of Northern India 1785 to 1849 by G. Grey first published in 1929 and reprinted by the Languages Department, Punjab, Patiala, in 1970, contains biographical sketches of over one hundred Europeans who came to or served in the Punjab during Sikh times. Available as Limited View Google Books Index Bibliography

Locations

• Bhasin Raaja

Simla - the summer capital of British India. Reprinted Rupa and Co 2011. Review in Deccan Herald

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
  Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 Google Books
  

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 Volume 1 Volume 2 Google Books

Regimental histories

• The NW Frontier of India Tim Moreman, The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1939-1947 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 1998)

Miscellaneous

• Allen, Charles

“As Charles Allen shows in his book, under Sir William Jones, the Asiatic Society of Bengal became the scholarly nerve centre that brought together all the different amateur enthusiasts busily working at uncovering the deepest roots of India's lost pre-Islamic history. In the society's Calcutta premises were collated reports sent in from a huge range of eccentric figures working away at translating Buddhist scrolls or ancient rock inscriptions, Gandharan coins or Tibetan mythologies, far separated from each other in remote outposts between the highest peaks of the Himalayas in Tibet and Nepal, through the arid plains of the Deccan to the thickest jungles of 18th-century Burma and Ceylon.” The Buddha and the Sahibs by Charles Allen 2002 reviewed by William Dalrymple, author of the White Mughals, in the Guardian, and in the Spectator available from Amazon.co.uk. This link from the Royal Historical Society lists out some of the people covered in the book.

• Yule, Henry

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 Google Books