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This is a temporary holding page for titles submitted without a review.

Contributors are implored not to add further titles to the Recommended Reading section without including a review. Please take the time to say what the title is about and why it is recommended using the guidelines as a basis for your entry.

If you have read any of the following titles and are prepared to add a review this would be most appreciated, as the entry can then be moved to the appropriate reading list.


  • Bennett, Mary

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


  • 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


  • 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 our index to 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.





  • 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



  • The English in Western India: being the early history of the factory at Surat, of Bombay, and the subordinate factories on the western coast by Philip Anderson 1854 Google Books



  • “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.


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
  • Narrative of a Three Month's March in India by Harriette Ashmore, Wife of an Officer in the 16th Foot London 1841 Google Books
  • Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as It Is by John Mercier McMullen, a late Staff Sergeant of the [HM] 13th Light Infantry 1846 Google Books
  • Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India from 1854 to 1863 by Sir Sydney Cotton 1868 Google Books

Regimental histories

  • Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment: Containing an Account of the Establishment of Independent Companies in 1645; Their Formation Into a Regiment in 1748; and Its Subsequent Services to 1842 by James George Smith Neill, Staff Officer published 1843. Google Books
  • Services of the 102nd regiment of foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers), from 1842 to the present time; being a sequel to the "Services of the Madras European regiment, by a staff officer". by Thomas Raikes 1867 Google Books
  • Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: from the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of its Internal Organization by Captain E. Buckle, 1852 Google Books
  • History of the Services of the Madras Artillery, with a Sketch of the Rise of the Power of the East India Company in Southern India by Peter James Begbie 1852

Volume 1 (to 1810) Google Books

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