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*"Science in British India" by RK Kochhar ''Indian Journal of History of Science'' 34(4) 1999 pp317-346 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:wY04OFGLYWUJ:www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf+Science+in+%22British+India%22&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgniwZQ9F5fkYnPJsb8-jftV0U23uCpu9sna-ItH20a319oZSJypsk4xOg7SSAaX3Kz3jPeEyQpSMGUaYTYgZdiLxcbZVkP88-1q2DLnKQqAEG8YhKqXsf4eG834yglY9tFK7Yc&sig=AHIEtbTyaXkzEc8uK-F_M8gtYcePXCA_Sw html version], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140125143502/http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf pdf version] includes information about Surveys . Page 329 (page 13 of the link) states 'Madras Observatory ran a surveying school from 1794 to 1810 to train teenager European orphaned boys as practical revenue surveyors'.
*From 1794 the brighter students at the Madras Male Orphanage, usually boys of mixed blood, were recruited to the Survey school.<ref> Rootsweb India List post [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-02/1298802118 Revenue Surveyor] by Shirley West 27 Feb 2011 (retrieved 14 April 2014)</ref>
*[http://www.holdiches.com/sir-thomas-hungerford-holdich-1843-1929/ Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich 1843 – 1929] His Life Story, Chapters 1-5 cover his time in India. (click on the drop down menu). He became a Royal Engineer and he was sent to India on attachment to the Survey Department. His first campaign was in [[Duar War|Bhutan in 1865]]. This led to his permanent appointment to the Survey Department. He subsequently served in the [[2nd Afghan War]]. he was appointed as Surveyor to the Historical Boundary Commission which was to settle the boundary between Russia and Afghanistan, and then Chief Commissioner to settle the boundary between Persia and Baluchistan He was involved with the [[Tirah Campaign|1898 campaign against the Afridis]], but soon had to retire as he had reached the age of 55. The Holdich Family History Society (retrieved 14 April 2014). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holdich Thomas Holdich] Wikipedia. For online books, refer below.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131126124906/http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/obituary-5/ Obituary of Colonel Reginald Henry Phillimore 1879-1964] himalayanclub.org (archive.org link)
*[http://www.rics.org/ Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors] has a [http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/more-services/library/library-enquiry-service/ library] (under the heading Resources) and will search their archives for biographical information for a fee.
**''Volume IV 1830-1843'', published 1958 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, (as are Volumes I-III).
**''Volume V 1844-1861'', published 1968, (first published 1964) may be downloaded as a pdf from [http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/rarebooks/ Digital Himalaya at University of Cambridge Yale],(scroll down) as may Volume IV (and earlier volumes) (large files up to 47 MB). Volume V was withdrawn by the Indian Government soon after it was published, because of the strategic sensitivity of some of the subject matter ([http://sogdianabooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=376 sogdianabooks.com] and [http://www.abebooks.co.uk/HISTORICAL-RECORDS-SURVEY-INDIA-Volumes-Phillimore/5703551383/bd abebooks.co.uk]) so it is not widely available.
*[https://archive.org/details/GeographicalSurveyingInIndia "Geographical Surveying In India"] by Colonel Sir T H Holdich 1898 Paper XI,'' Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Occassional Papers Volume XXIV 1898'' pages 289-305 Archive.org
*''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel Sir T Hungerford Holdich [https://archive.org/details/indianborderlan00holdgoog 1901 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indianborderland00holduoft Second and cheaper edition 1909] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/india01holdgoog ''India''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gatesofindiabei00hold ''The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
*[https://archive.org/details/politicalfrontie00holdiala ''Political Frontiers and Boundary Making''] by Col. Sir Thomas H Holdich 1916
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