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*:[http://books.google.com/books?id=zIMfAAAAYAAJ ''The History of the British Empire in India...1844 to 1862: Forming a Sequel to Thornton's History of India'' Vol 1], by Lionel James Trotter (1866) Google Books, [http://www.archive.org/stream/historybritishe00trotgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Vol 2] (Archive.org)*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.741/page/n1/mode/2up ''History of British India with Continuation comprising the Afghan War- The Conquest of Sinde and Gwalior-War in the Punjaub Etc''] by Hugh Murray 1851. Originally published 1832. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
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===Historical books online books===
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Some general histories available as [[online books]]. Please note the dates that these have been written in order to be aware that some of the content may be outdated or incompatible with modern sensibilities.
*Also see [[East India Company#Historical books online|East India Company]].*Also see [[Governor-General]].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024059705 ''Early English Adventurers in the East''] by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.9987 ''The First Englishmen in India. Letters and Narratives of sundry Elizabethans...''] by J Courtenay Locke 1930 Archive.org. Part of the series ''The Broadway Travellers''.
*''A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies'' by Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 1804 edition, first published in an English translation 1783 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Qqw1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=2as1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 2] (out of 6 volumes) Google Books
*''Bengal and Madras papers: recounting the growth of British power in India'' edited by G W Forrest 1928. Published by Imperial Record Department, Calcutta.
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35331 Volume I [1670-1688<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21510 Vol. II [1688-1757<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21511 Vol. III [1757-1785<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Links to pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA56 "India, or Hindostan"] page 56 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MnUIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Transactions in India, from the commencement of the French War in seventeen hundred and fifty-six, to the conclusion of the late peace, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three: Containing a history of the British interests in Indostan, during a period of near thirty years; distinguished by two wars with France, several revolutions and treaties of alliance, the acquisition of an extensive territory, and the administration of Governor Hastings''] by John Moir 1786 Google Books
*''British India analyzed: The provincial and revenue establishments of Tippoo Sultaun and of Mahomedan and British conquerors in Hindostan, stated and considered. In Three Parts'' by Charles Francis Greville 1795 Google Books
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=ktiExi7-ZM8C&pg=PA291 ''Part 2 Provincial and Revenue Establishments Of British Conquerors'']
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=RIF1uTJSruQC&pg=PR6 ''Part 3 Deductions From The History Of Mahomedan and European Conquerors'']
*[https://archive.org/details/b28774723_0001 ''The View of Hindoostan. Volume I Western Hindoostan''] by Thomas Pennant 1798 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/b28774723_0001#page/n19/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/b28774723_0001#page/n305/mode/2up Index]
:[https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan01penn#page/n305/mode/2up ''The View of Hindoostan. Volume II Eastern Hindoostan''] [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan01penn#page/n311/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan01penn#page/n693/mode/2up Index]. Part of the same Archive.org digital file. Also available [https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.644#0002 ''Volume II'' Heidelberg University Library version].
*[https://archive.org/details/nabobsstudyofsoc0000spea/page/n5 ''The Nabobs : a Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India''] by Percival Spear. Reprint edition 1980, first published 1932, second enlarged edition 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''The East Indian chronologist : where the historical events respecting the East Indian Company are briefly arranged in succession from the date of their Charter in 1600, to the 4th of June 1801, with other particulars necessary to be known, as interesting to the inhabitants of India'' by John Hawkesworth 1801 (Calcutta) [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BJQNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books version], [https://archive.org/details/eastindianchrono00hawkuoft Archive.org version]- note many pages are marked.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=1ncIAAAAQAAJ ''The History of British India'' Vol 1], by James Mill (1817) [http://books.google.com/books?id=zv8LAAAAYAAJ Vol 2 (1708-84)], [http://books.google.com/books?id=gXgIAAAAQAAJ Vol 3 (1784-1805)] Google Books
*''History of the Possessions of the Honorable East India Company'' by R. Montgomery Martin 1837. [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.37026/page/n1/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/historyofpossess01rmon/page/n9/mode/2up Volume I], 2004 reprint edition; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.37008/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org, including Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=wxINAAAAYAAJ ''The History of British India 1805 to 1835'' Vol 1], by Horace Hayman Wilson (1848), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cBINAAAAYAAJ Vol 2 from 1813], [http://books.google.com/books?id=8swNAAAAIAAJ Vol 3 from 1823] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=u4MfAAAAYAAJ ''The History of the British Empire in India'' Vol 1], by Edward Thornton (1841) [http://books.google.com/books?id=yYYfAAAAYAAJ Vol 2, 1766-98], [http://books.google.com/books?id=B4MfAAAAYAAJ Vol 3, 1797-1805], [http://books.google.com/books?id=rQRXAAAAMAAJ Vol 4, 1805-19], [http://books.google.com/books?id=kB4NAAAAYAAJ Vol 5, 1823-33], [http://books.google.com/books?id=GGYBAAAAQAAJ Vol 6, 1833-43] [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ 2nd edition 1859] with an “entirely new and enlarged [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 glossary"], [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR17 chronological index], and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA609 index] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=CI0cAAAAMAAJ ''Political and Military Events in British India: From the Years 1756 to 1849: Vol 1'' (to 1814)] by William Hough (1853) and [http://books.google.com/books?id=CI0cAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA371 Vol 2 (1814-49)] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/charlesgrantbrit0000embr/page/n5 ''Charles Grant and British Rule in India''] by Ainslie Thomas Embree 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Grant (1746-1823) used his influential position as a director of the East India Company to advance the evangelical chaplains and defended the Baptist Missionaries in India.
*[https://archive.org/details/threepresidencie01capp_0/page/n5 ''The Three Presidencies of India''] by John Capper 1853 Archive.org. Full title ''The Three Presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian Possessions…''
*''A comprehensive History of India, civil, military and social, from the first landing of the English, to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt'' by Henry Beveridge 1862 editions (first published 1858) Google Books [http://www.google.com/books?id=XLUIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 1( -1767) (Books 1, 2, 3)], [http://www.google.com/books?id=hRENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 2 (1762 -1803) (Books 4, 5, 6)], [http://www.google.com/books?id=wRENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP15 Volume 3 (1808-) (Books 7, 8,9)], [http://www.google.com/books?id=wRENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA711 Index to all Volumes]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mwRSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''India in 1858: A Summary of the Existing Administration, Political, Fiscal, and Judicial, of British India, Together with the Laws and Public Documents Relating Thereto, from the Earliest to the Present Time''] by Arthur Mills 1858 Google Books
*''The Administration of India from 1859-1868: the First Ten Years of Administration under the Crown'' by Iltudus Thomas Prichard 1869 [http://books.google.com/books?id=YFUuAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 1],[http://books.google.com/books?id=YFUuAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR6-IA1 Contents]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=s1MuAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=s1MuAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR5 Contents] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9FMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Englishman in India''] by Charles Raikes 1867 (Google Books)
*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofin00wheeuoft/page/n5 ''A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma''] by J Talboys Wheeler 1899. Printed in London. Archive.org
:''India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma'' by J Talboys Wheeler 1899 Printed in New York. [https://archive.org/details/indiafrontiersta01whee/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/indiafrontiersta02whee/page/n8 Volume II] Includes a supplementary chapter in Volume II, but otherwise the text is probably the same.
*''A History of India'' by A F Rudolf Hoernle, Indian Educational Service (Retired List) and Herbert A Stark, Bengal Educational Service. [https://archive.org/details/historyofindia00hoeriala/page/n5/mode/2up [1st edition<nowiki>]</nowiki> 1904], [https://archive.org/details/ahistoryindia00stargoog/page/n8/mode/2up 3rd edition] 1906; [https://archive.org/details/historyofindia00hoeruoft/page/n5/mode/2up Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged [1909<nowiki>]</nowiki>] All Archive.org
*''History of India'' published 1906-07 (Archive.org):
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia01jackiala Volume 1] ''From the earliest times to the sixth century B.C''., by R.C. Dutt.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia08jackiala Volume 8] ''From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time'', by Sir A.C. Lyall.
:*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofindia09jackiala Volume 9] ''Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental'', by A.V.W. Jackson
*''The Cambridge History of India'' published 1922-1932.
:[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory05raps/page/n8 ''Volume V British India 1497-1858''] edited by H H Dodwell 1928
:[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory06raps/page/n6 ''Volume VI The Indian Empire 1858-1918. With chapters on the development of Administration 1818-1858''] edited by H H Dodwell 1932
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Cambridge+history+of+India%29&sort=-publicdate Earlier volumes in the series] All Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiahistory0000keay/mode/2up ''India : a History''] by John Keay 2000. [https://archive.org/details/indiahistory00keay/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NVQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Dictionary of British-Indian dates: being a compendium of all the dates essential to the study of the history of British rule in India''] 1866 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h2APAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Slave Trade (East India). [Also<nowiki>]</nowiki> Slavery in Ceylon'']. Correspondence between the Directors of the East India Company and the Company's Government in India, on the subject of Slavery. Communications relating to Slavery in the Island of Ceylon. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 31 July 1838. Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/economichistoryo00dutt ''The Economic History of India under early British rule, from the rise of the British power in 1757 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837''] by Romesh Dutt 6th edition 1920 Archive.org. First published c 1902.
:''The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age: From the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837...''. Original title was'' India in the Victorian Age; an Economic History of the People'' [https://archive.org/details/indiainvictorian00duttuoft 1904 edition], [https://archive.org/details/economichistory00duttgoog 3rd edition 1908] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276743/page/n261 India in 1907] page 226 ''More Changes More Chances'' by Henry W. Nevinson 1925 Archive.org. He was sent to India by the ''Manchester Guardian'' to report on the "unrest" movement, following which he wrote [https://archive.org/details/thenewspiritinin00neviiala/page/xii ''The New Spirit in India''] by Henry W. Nevinson 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924005705516 ''The Empire of India''] by Sir Bampfylde Fuller, Indian Civil Service (retired) 1913 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/empireofindia015611mbp 2nd digital file, better text, poorer photographs] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/passingofempire00fieluoft/page/n7 ''The Passing of Empire''] by H Fielding-Hall [Harold] 1913 Archive.org. A handwritten note on the title page indicates he was a senior lawyer in Burma in the Civil Service. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.23487/page/n5 Undated edition: For circulation in India only] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13829 ''A New Geography Of The Indian Empire And Ceylon''] by Cameron Morrison. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1915, (first published 1906). Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A%20New%20Geography%20Of%20The%20Indian%20Empire%20And%20Ceylon%29 Additional digital files available] Archive.org
*''Provincial Geographies of India'' 1913-23.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishindia030566mbp ''British India from Queen Elizabeth to Lord Reading''] by an Indian Mahomedan 1926 Archive.org. Catalogued as ''British India''
*[https://archive.org/details/rthonmresmontagu00mont ''The Rt. Hon. Mr. E. S. Montagu on Indian Affairs''], published 1917. Archive.org. Mr Montagu was Secretary of State for India, in Britain. Includes the Indian Budgets 1910-1913 and Mr Montagu’s views of the inefficiencies of the structure of Indian Government, as revealed by the Mesopotamian Commission.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12832/page/n7 ''Political Trouble In India 1907-1917''] by James Campbell Ker ICS. Reprint edition with Foreword and Bibliographical Note by Mahadevaprasad Saha. 1960. Archive.org. First published 1917 as ''Secret and Confidential''. This report was a secret document provided to the Sedition Committee, see following ''Report'', and "was the real source-book for the Committee" (page vii):[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45679/page/n15 1973 reprint of 1917 original] with "About this book" by Jamna Das Akhtar. Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/reportsed00indi ''Sedition Committee 1918 Report''] Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. Archive.org. There was also a ''Secret Edition'' ref: IOR/V/26/262/1 British Library. One of the aims of the Committee was to “investigate and report on the nature and extent of the criminal conspiracies connected with the revolutionary movement in India.”See previous item for the book by James Campbell Ker.:''Sedition Committee 1918 Appendices'' [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.209606 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. *[https://archive.inorg/details/handledli.granth.117736/2015mode/209606 2up ''Sedition Disorders Inquiry Committee 1918 Appendices1919-1920 : Report''] Pdf published 1920. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also see [[Massacre at Amritsar]] for volumes of evidence considered by this Committee. *''Punjab Unrest Before And After'' downloadby H N Mittra [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173517/page/n3 1920 edition], Digital Library of India[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.214674/page/n5 2nd edition 1921] Archive. org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209606 95909/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Lost Dominion''] by Al. Carthill (pseudonym) 1922. Archive.org version. Some editions may have had the additional title ''A review of recent political events in India'', 1925 additional title ''The story of England's abdication in India''. The author's full name was Bennet Christian Huntingdon Calcraft-Kennedy (1871–1935), sometimes seen as B C Kennedy, who went to India in 1891 and worked as a Collector and Judge in Bombay Presidency, retiring in 1926.<ref>[https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-1/ Kennedy papers] s-asian.cam.ac.uk; [https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-2/ s-asian.cam.ac.uk link 2]; <br>[https://books. google.com.au/books?id=OZI1aojDb1QC&pg=PA263 Page 263] ''Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930'' by Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker</ref>
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2027793 ''Histories Of The Non-Co-Operation And Khilafat Movements''] by P C Bamford 1925. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: An Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111310 Archive.org Digital Library of India Collection]
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12160/page/n5 ''Communism In India [by<nowiki>]</nowiki> Sir Cecil Kaye with Unpublished Documents from National Archives of India (1919-1924)''] compiled and edited by Subodh Roy 1971 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. ''Communism In India'' first published 1925. The author had been Director of the Department of Central Intelligence. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kaye Cecil Kaye] Wikipedia. His daughter was the author [[M M Kaye]], see her autobiographies.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/statistics/ ''Statistical Abstract relating to British India''] HMSO . A broken range of various editions covering the period 1840 to 1920. dsal.uchicago.edu.
*''The Indian Year Book. A Statistical and Historical Annual of the Indian Empire. With an explanation of the principal topics of the day''. First issued 1914. Edited by Sir Stanley Reed. [https://archive.org/details/indianyearbook6191unse '''1919''': Sixth year of issue] [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook6191unse#page/n51/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook6191unse#page/809/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/indianyearbook7192unse '''1920'''], [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook7192unse#page/n59/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/indianyearbook7192unse#page/832/mode/2up Index] Archive.org. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Indian+&filtertype_2=title&filter_relational_operator_2=contains&filter_2=Year&filtertype_3=title&filter_relational_operator_3=contains&filter_3=Book&filtertype_4=author&filter_relational_operator_4=contains&filter_4=Reed&submit_apply_filter=&query=&rpp=100&sort_by=dc.title_sort&order=asc ''The Indian Year Book'': Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India], filtered to show author Reed. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Indian+Year+Book+%29+AND+creator%3A%28reed%29&sort=date Archive.org versions, filtered to show author Reed] There may be additional volumes showing other authors, or no author.*''India in 19**-19**'': A statement prepared for presentation to Parliament, at least some editions by L F Rushbrook Williams. Government of India Central Publication Branch Archive.org:[http://archivedspace.gipe.ac.orgin/streamxmlui/indiain19221923031956mbp#pagehandle/n510973/mode/2up 22031 ''Report on the Administration of India in 1922for the year 1916-2317''] (1923) Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India].:On Archive.org, many being mirror versions from from Digital Library of India.:[httphttps://archive.org/streamdetails/in.ernet.dli.2015.206372/indiain19221923031956mbp#page/n13n3/mode/2up Contents 1917-18], ; [httphttps://archive.org/streamdetails/indiain19221923031956mbp#page/n395/mode/2up Indexin.ernet.dli.2015.208123 1919]; [httphttps://archive.org/stream/indiain192324035446mbp#page/n3/modedetails/2up ''India in 1923-24''.ernet.dli.2015.209095 1920] (1924), ; :[httphttps://archive.org/streamdetails/indiain192324035446mbp#page/n13/mode/2up Contentsin.ernet.dli.2015.39654 1921-22], ; [http://archive.org/stream/indiain192324035446mbpindiain19221923031956mbp#page/n395n5/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/indiain19252600jcoa ''India in 1925 1922-26''23] (19261923) , [httpshttp://archive.org/stream/indiain19252600jcoaindiain19221923031956mbp#page/n11n13/mode/2up Contents], [httpshttp://archive.org/stream/indiain19252600jcoaindiain19221923031956mbp#page/430n395/mode/2up Index]; [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbpindiain192324035446mbp#page/n5n3/mode/2up ''India in 1930 1923-1931''24] (19321924), [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbpindiain192324035446mbp#page/n11n13/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbpindiain192324035446mbp#page/n759n395/mode/2up Index].:The following books on Archive.org may require either a DjVu or Torrent (BitTorrent) plug-in: [https://archive.org/details/IndiaIn191718 ''India in 1917-18'']; [https://archive.org/details/IndiaIn193435 ''India in 1934-35'']: The following are available as pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with mirror versions on Archive.org: [http://www.newernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/132117 ''191732075 1924-18''25], ; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.132117 Archive.org 1917indiain19252600jcoa 1925-1826]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208123 ''1919''], (1926) [https://archive.org/detailsstream/in.ernet.dli.2015.208123 Archive.org 1919]; [http:indiain19252600jcoa#page/n11/www.new.dli.ernet.inmode/handle/2015/209095 19202up Contents], [https://archive.org/detailsstream/in.ernet.dli.2015.209095 Archive.org 1920]; [http:indiain19252600jcoa#page/430/www.new.dli.ernet.inmode/handle/2015/39654 ''1921-22''2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39654 Archive.org 1921-22]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/32075 ''1924-25''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32075 Archive.org 1924-25], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/11534 '' 1926-27''], ; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.11534 Archive.org 1926-27]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/90420 '' 1927-28''], ; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.90420 Archive.org 1927-28]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/38551 '' 1928-29''], ; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38551 Archive.org 192811536 1929-2930]; :[http://wwwarchive.new.dli.ernet.inorg/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/handlen5/2015mode/11536 2up ''19291930-30''1931](1932), [httpshttp://archive.org/detailsstream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n11/mode/in.ernet.dli.2015.11536 Archive.org 1929-302up Contents]; , [http://wwwarchive.new.dli.ernet.inorg/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/handlen759/2015mode/533163 ''1931-32''2up Index], ; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533163 Archive.org 1931-32]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209094 ''1932-33''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209094 Archive.org 1932-33]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209099 ''1933-34''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209099 Archive.org 1933-34]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/533174 ''1934-35''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533174 Archive.org 210573/page/n3/mode/2up 1934-35]. Additional files are also available for these years.
*The ''Indian Recorder'' was intended to be a reference book for the period. Archive.org, including Digital Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/indianrecorderap033569mbp ''April-June 1932'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513939 ''July-September,1932'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513940 ''October-December,1932'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513938 ''January- March 1933''].
*''Indian Annual Register'' and ''Indian Quarterly Register''. 1923 title is ''Indian Annual Register: Being an Annual Chronicle and Digest of Public Affairs of India in Matters Political, Educational, Economic, etc.'' [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Indian+Register%29+AND+creator%3A%28Mitra%29&sort=-date Editions available on Archive.org]. [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Indian+&filtertype_2=title&filter_relational_operator_2=contains&filter_2=Register&filtertype_4=title&filter_relational_operator_4=contains&filter_4=&submit_apply_filter=Apply&query=Indian+Register&scope=%2F Editions available on Digital Repository of GIPE as pdf downloads] Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune]. Broken range 1919-1947.
*[https://archive.org/details/politicalsystemo029395mbp ''The Political System Of British India''] by E.A. Horne 1922 Archive.org.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209387 ''Report Of The Administration Of Lord Reading Viceroy And Governor General Of India (1921-1926)''] by J Coatman 1927. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209387 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/146303 ''Years Of Destiny India 1926-1932''] by J C Coatman 1932. Reprinted in 1985 as ''India The Years Of Struggle For Freedom''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.146303 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/76920 ''The Indian Riddle''] by John Coatman 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76920 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''The Indian Riddle: a Solution Suggested'' :[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/101141 ''India The Road To Self Government''] by John Coatman 1942. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.101141 Archive.org version]. Initial links are pdf downloads, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54058 ''Must England lose India? [The Nemesis of Empire<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Osburn 3rd edition December 1930 (first published May 1930]. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/details/mustenglandlosei00osbu Archive.org Lending Library edition] possibly better print quality. This book was banned in India. The author had been in the RAMC.
*Indian chapters about events in India in 1930 commencing with [https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/546 “Flight to India”] page 547''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. The India pages continue to page 593. [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file], different edition with differing page numbers, India chapters commence [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.indli.2015.76543/page/n585 page 582] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. The author was then an American foreign correspondent, one of the most renowned of his day.*[https://archive.org/details/TheSurrenderOfAnEmpireNestaHelenWebster/page/n305/mode/2up "The Surrender to Swaraj"] Chapter XVI page 296 ''The Surrender of an Empire'' by Nesta H. Webster 1931 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/handledetails/in.ernet.dli.2015.210780/page/177667 n5 ''Rise And Fulfilment Of British Rule In India''] by Edward Thompson and G T Garratt 2nd edition 1935, first published 1934. Archive.org. A history.*''Turmoil & Tragedy in India 1914 and After''] by Lt Gen Sir George MacMunn 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177667 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278381 ''The White Sahibs in India''] by Reginald Reynolds 1937. Full title : ''The White Sahibs in India. An examination of British rule in India''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278381 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/budgetfor1941194033334mbp ''Budget For 1941-1942''] Archive.org
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in216654/handlepage/2015/526463 n5 ''Strangers In India''] by Penderel Moon 1944 Archive.org* ''The British In India''] by Sir Percival J Griffiths 1946. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015. 1526463 526463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[https://archive.org/details/churchillcrippsi0000moor/page/n7 ''Churchill, Cripps, and India, 1939-1945''] by R J Moore (Robin James) 1979. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishinasia033318mbp ''The British In Asia''] by Guy Wint 1947 Archive.org
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.dliIncludes many chapters about India, from the early days of the East India Company to 1947.ernet*[https://archive.inorg/details/handle1950-while-memory-serves-by-tuker/2015mode/526521 2up ''While Memory Serves''] by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker. Digital reprint edition reproduced by Sani H Panhwar, originally published 1950. Archive.org. Covers the two years 1946 and 1947, "told by one who watched events from the Headquarters of Eastern Command" of the Indian Army, (he was G.O.C. in C.), including riots and bloodshed in Calcutta, the Punjab and elsewhere.* ''India and the Passing of Empire''] by Sir George Dunbar 1951. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526521 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/526461 ''The British Impact on India''] by Sir Percival J Griffiths 1952. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526461 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*''The Men Who Ruled India'', published in three volumes, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126942 ''The Founders''] (1953), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126942 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127071 ''The Guardians, Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127071 Archive.org version]mirror from Digital Library of India; and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127070 ''The Guardians, Volume lI''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127070 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India; (1954) by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym). Initial links are available as pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India. The author was Philip Mason who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1928.*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.2624/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Transfer of Power in India 1945-7''] by E W R Lumby 1954 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/transferofpowerinindiamenonv.p._948_q/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Transfer of Power in India''] by V P Menon 1957 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19551/page/n5 ''The Last Days of the British Raj''] by Leonard Mosley 1960 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/martiallawinindi0000mina ''Martial Law in India, Pakistan and Ceylon''] by Joseph Minattur 1962. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/LastYearsOfBritishIndia ''The Last Years Of of British India''] by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.org. Also available on the Digital [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449456 Archive.org version 2].:[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12619/page/n7 ''Asia In The European Age 1498-1955''] by Michael Edwardes 1961. Archive.org, Public Library of India as pdf downloads (multiple files) Collection.:[https://archive.org/details/westinasia18501900edwa/page/n7 ''The West in Asia, 1850-1914''] by Michael Edwardes 1967. Archive.org Lending Library. Covers European powers and Great Britain, including India, Burma, Malaya, North Borneo.*[httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/illusionofperman0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Illusion of Permanence : British Imperialism in India''] by Francis G Hutchins 1967. [https://archive.org/details/illusionofperman0000unse/page/n19/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.new*A trilogy about the rise and decline of Queen Victoria’s Empire by James, who became, Jan Morris, published 1968-78. Includes chapters about India.dli Archive.ernetorg Books to Borrow/Lending Library unless otherwise indicated.in:[https://handlearchive.org/2015details/449456 Pdf download 1heavenscommandim00morr ''Heaven's Command : an Imperial Progress'']by James Morris 1980, first published 1973. :[https://archive.org/details/paxbritannicacli0000morr/page/n9/mode/2up ''Pax Britannica : the Climax of an Empire''] by James Morris 1968. [https://archive.org/details/paxbritannicacli0000morr_g9y5/page/n3/mode/2up File 2]. :[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449456 553288/page/n3/mode/2up ''Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat''] by James Morris 1979, first published 1978. Archive.org version. [https://archive.org/details/farewelltrumpets00janm/page/n11/mode/2up File 2] 1978. [https://archive.org/details/farewelltrumpets00morr/page/n3/mode/2up File 3] 1980. *[https://archive.org/details/greatdividebrita0000hods/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Great Divide: Britain, India, Pakistan'']by H V Hodson 1969 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/administrativehi0000misr/page/n5 ''The Administrative History of India, 1834-1947; General Administration''] by B B Misra 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.*''The Transfer of Power 1942-7''. Editor in Chief Nicholas Mansergh, Editor Penderel Moon. Published in 12 volumes 1970- 1983 HMSO. Title page includes the additional title ''Constitutional Relations between Britain and India''. Unpublished documents from the India Office Records.:''v. 1. The Cripps Mission, January-April 1942.--v. 2. Quit India, 30 April-21 September 1942.--v. 3. Reassertion of authority, Gandhi's fast, and the succession to the Viceroyalty, 21 September 1942-12 June 1943.--v. 4. The Bengal famine and the new Viceroyalty, 15 June 1943-31 August 1944.--v. 5. The Simla Conference, background and proceedings, 1 September 1944-28 July 1945.--v. 6. The post-war phase: new moves by the Labour Government, 1 August 1945-22 March 1946.--v. 7. The cabinet mission, 23 March-29 June 1946.--v. 8. The interim government, 3 July-1 November, 1946.--v. 9. The fixing of a time limit, 4 November 1946-22 March 1947.--v. 10. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, formation of a plan, 22 March-30 May 1947.--v. 11. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty announcement and reception of the 3 June plan 31 May-7 July 1947.--v. 12. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, princes, partition, and independence, 8 July-15 August 1947''.:[https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10001unse/page/n7 Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10002unse/page/n7 Vol. 2], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10003unse/page/n9 Vol. 3], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10004unse/page/n9 Vol. 4], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10005unse/page/n9 Vol. 5], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10006unse/page/n9 Vol. 6], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10007unse/page/n7 Vol. 7], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10008unse/page/n9 Vol. 8], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10009unse/page/n7 Vol. 9], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10010unse/page/n7 Vol. 10], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10011unse/page/n7 Vol. 11], [https://archive.org/details/transferofpower10012unse/page/n7 Vol. 12] Archive.org Lending Library. *[https://archive.org/details/solespokesmanjinnahmuslimleaguethedemandforpakistanayeshajalalcup_781_y/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the demand for Pakistan''] by Ayesha Jalal 1994 edition, first published 1985 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/shamefulflightla00wolp ''Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India''] by Stanley A. Wolpert 2006 Archive.org Lending Library.*[httphttps://wwwbooks.newgoogle.com.dliau/books?id=2Wx9DQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''Partition: The story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947''] by Barney White-Spunner 2017.ernet Sample pages only, Google Books.*Also see [[Life inIndia#Historical books online 6|Life in India-Departure and Connections]] for books about independence in 1947.*[https://archive.org/details/thearabianfrontierofthebritishrajmerchantsrulersandthebritishinthenineteenthcenturygulf/handlemode/20152up ''The Arabian Frontier Of The British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, And The British In The Nineteenth Century Gulf''] by James Onley 2007. Archive.org.:Article [https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/65392 Pdf download 2Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa"]by James Onley. ''Asian Affairs, vol. XL, no. I, March 2009'' socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk. ==References==<references/>
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