Books online containing strong Biographical Interest

This page to be regarded work in progress….. designed to provide a quick search into some standard “first stop” sources for biographical information.

General content

• East India Registers and other directories This is an internal link to lists of available online searchable directories.
• Also a collective search of the above directories available in full view at googlebooks can be made via the Fibis Library
• Dictionary of Indian Biography by C E Buckland, published 1906. archive.org See review in Biographies Reading List
• The Indian Biographical Dictionary 1915. Edited by C. Hayavadana Rao Archive.org

Civil Service

See also : Indian Civil Service for further information and titles.

• Record of services of the Honourable East India Company's civil servants in the Madras presidency, from 1741 to 1858. by Charles Campbell Prinsep. Archive.org

• Alphabetical List of the honourable East India Company’s Bengal Civil Servants from the year 1780 to the year 1838 by Dodwell & Miles googlebooks.com

• Alphabetical List of the Bombay Civil Servants 1798-1839 by Dodwell and Miles googlebooks.com

• Memorials of Old Haileybury College archive.org. Contains histories of service of Writers.

• Classified list of forest officers of the Imperial and Provincial services in India and Burma on 1st January 1916 Archive.org

Army

East India Company Army

• Alphabetical list of the officers of the Bengal army; with the dates of their respective promotion, retirement, resignation, or death from 1760 to 1834 inclusive, by Dodwell & Miles Archive.org

• Alphabetical list of the officers of the Madras army; with the dates of their respective promotion, retirement, resignation, or death from 1760 to 1834 inclusive, by Edward Dodwell Archive.org

• Addiscome - Its heroes and men of Note by Col H M Vibart Archive .org

British Army

• Fibiwiki page linking to Hart’s Army lists in full view covering years 1861-1869 inclusive. Also refer toMilitary Reading List for background to these annual publications

Cemetery Inscriptions

See also Cemeteries for further information and links

• List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh by Sir Edward Arthur Henry Blunt (1911) Archive.org

• The Bengal Obituary: or, a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth, being a compilation of tablets and monumental inscriptions from various parts of the Bengal and Agra presidencies 1851 Google Books

• The Complete Monumental Register: Containing All the Epitaphs in the Different Churches and Burial Grounds in and about Calcutta by M Derozario 1815 Google Books

• List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated by J Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org