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Historical books online
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=saYbAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA196 "Darjeeling"] page 196 ''Calcutta Review Volume 28, January-June 1857'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA305 ''A Sketch of the Physical and Topographical Characters and Other Relations of the Hill Sanitaria of Darjeeling, Nynee Tal, Landour and Murree, in the Bengal Presidency''], page 305 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1891-thackers-guide-book-to-darjeeling-and-its-neighbourhood-by-mitchell-s-pdf/ ''Thacker’s Guide Book to Darjeeling and its Neighbourhood''] by Mitchell 1891. Link to a pdf download Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent.
*[http://archive.org/stream/darjeelinghimal00unkngoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway: Illustrated Guide for Tourists''] 1896 Archive.org
*Darjeeling is mentioned in the first chapter of ''Among the Himalayas'' by Major L A Waddell, Indian Army Medical Corps [https://archive.org/details/himalayas00waddamongrich 1899 edition], [https://archive.org/details/amonghimalayas00wadd 2nd edition 1900] Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/newmansguidetod00publgoog#page/n10/mode/1up ''Newman's Guide to Darjeeling and Its Surroundings, Historical & Descriptive''] 1900 Archive.org
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1930-newmans-guide-to-darjeeling-s-pdf/ ''Newman’s Guide to Darjeeling''] 1930. Pdf download Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/71769 ''Darjeeling Route Guide''] by George P Robertson 1913. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.71769 Archive.org version]. Full title: ''Darjeeling route guide: With directions, plans, a map and a complete index for the instruction and guidance of visitors to the town''.
*[http://www.vsdh.org/vsdh/dhr_book/ ''Darjeeling & its Mountain Railway: A Guide and Souvenir published by the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway Co. Ld.''] 1921 vsdh.org
**[http://www.vsdh.org/vsdh/dhr_book/chap_6.htm Chapter 6 "Suburbs of Darjeeling"] includes details about the cantonments at Lebong, Jalapahar and Katapahar (although confusingly the latter is also called Jalapahar)
:This book is also available to download as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1921-darjeeling-and-its-mountain-railway-s-pdf/ pdf file] from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]]. If download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent.
*Catalogued as [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.37708 ''History Of The Darjeeling District''] by E C Dozey 1917, Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Full title as for 2nd edition. A chapter on schools commences digital page 99, and a chapter on cemeteries, with details of some burials, commences digital page 140. Note some pages appear to be missing.
:A revised 2nd edition, published c 1922 is titled [https://archive.org/details/ConciseHistoryOfDarjeelingDistrictSince1835 ''A Concise History of the Darjeeling District since 1835''] by E C Dozey Archive.org. The chapter on cemeteries commences [https://archive.org/stream/ConciseHistoryOfDarjeelingDistrictSince1835/Concise%20History%20of%20Darjeeling%20District%20since%201835#page/n185/mode/2up page 146]. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.619 Another file, Archive.org], where images perhaps may be better.
**[https://archive.org/stream/n3journal25grea#page/276/mode/2up Rough plan of Lebong cantonment, showing the bungalows] page 277
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1955-the-children-of-kanchenjunga-by-fletcher-s-pdf/ ''The Children of Kanchenjunga''] by David Wilson Fletcher. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Full title: ''The Children of Kanchenjunga. On the lives of a tea-planter and his family in the Darjeeling Hills'', Published London 1955.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1955-himalayan-tea-garden-by-fletcher-s-pdf/ ''Himalayan Tea Garden''] by David Wilson Fletcher. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Full title: ''Himalayan Tea Garden: A Young Family's Adventures on a Tea Plantation Near Darjeeling''. Published New York, 1955. If download links do not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent.:These two publications are possibly probably the same book, with different titles. Elsewhere, the author was stated to be a Gurkha officer who ran a tea plantation in Darjeeling in 1953.
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996 [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press]
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