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*''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.
:[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35331 Volume I [1670-1688<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21510 Vol. II [1688-1757<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [httphttps://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
*[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…''
*[https://archive.org/details/ourindianarmymil00raftrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Our Indian Army: a Military History of the British Empire in the East''] by Captain Rafter [1855] Archive.org
*''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]
*''Civil disturbances during the British rule in India (1765 - 1857)'' by Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri 1955. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.505054/page/n3/mode/2up File 1], [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5678/page/n1/mode/2up File 2] Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.
:[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/southasiashorthi0000tink_c2v7/page/n5/mode/2up ''South Asia : a Short History''] by Hugh Tinker 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/raj00lawr/mode/2up ''Raj : the making and unmaking of British India''] by Lawrence James 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HbknAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Slavery and the slave trade in British India: with notices of the existence of these evils in the islands of Ceylon, Malacca, and Penang, drawn from official documents''] Published 1841 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/sircharleswoodsi0000moor/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sir Charles Wood's Indian policy, 1853-66''] by R. J. Moore (Robin James) 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Sir Charles Wood was President of the Board of Control for India 1853-1855 and Secretary of State for India 1859-1866. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wood,_1st_Viscount_Halifax Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiain188000temp ''India in 1880''] by Sir Richard Temple Second Edition1881 Edition 1881 [https://archive.org/stream/indiain188000temp#page/n17/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QF4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Geography of India: Comprising a Descriptive Outline of All India, and a Detailed Geographical, Commercial, Social, and Political Account of Each of Its Provinces''] by George Duncan 1880 Google Books. Same file [https://archive.org/details/geographyindiac00duncgoog/page/n10/mode/2up Archive.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/administrationm00forrgoog ''The Administration of the Marquis of Lansdowne as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, 1888-1894''] by George W Forrest 1894 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia00lethiala#page/170/mode/2up/ "Ancient and Modern Political Divisions"] page 170 ''The History of India'' by Sir Roper Lethbridge September 1900 edition, with corrections 1898 (First edition 1875)
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117736/mode/2up ''Disorders Inquiry Committee 1919-1920 : Report''] 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'' by H N Mittra [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173517/page/n3 1920 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.214674/page/n5 2nd edition 1921] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/politicalproblem00nunduoft/page/n1/mode/2up ''Political problems and Hunter Committee disclosures''] by Alfred Nundy, Bar-at Law 1920. Archive.org. Most of the chapters originally appeared in the ''Leader'' of Allahabad.
:[https://archive.org/details/indianunrest191900nund/page/n3/mode/2up ''Indian Unrest, 1919-20''] by Alfred Nundy, Bar-at Law 1921. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8753/mode/2up ''Revolution or Evolution''] by Alfred Nundy, Bar-at Law 1922. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95909/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Lost Dominion''] by Al. Carthill (pseudonym) 1922. Archive.org. 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>
*[httphttps://krishikosharchive.org/details/in.ernet.egranthdli.ac2015.in/handle/1/2027793 111310 ''Histories Of The of the Non-Co-Operation And and Khilafat Movements''] by P C Bamford 1925. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: An Institutional Repository Deputy Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of Indian National Agricultural Research SystemIndia. Also available on [https://archive1974 reprint edition, first published 1925.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.
:Editions available on [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Statistical+abstract+relating+to+British+India%22%29&sort=date Archive.org, A] [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22East+India+%28Statistical+abstract%29%22%29&sort=date Archive.org, B]. Dates of publication as catalogued may be incorrect. Statistics noted to 1937.
:Editions available on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Statistical%20abstract%20relating%20to%20British%20India%22%5D&searchtype=title&ft=&setft=false HathiTrust Digital Library, A], [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22East%20India%20%28Statistical%20abstract%29%22&searchtype=title&ft=&setft=false HathiTrust B]. '''Note''' HathiTrust pages can be rotated.
*''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. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Indian+Year+Book+%29+AND+creator%3A%28reed%29&sort=date Archive.org versions, 1914-1947 (broken range), 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
*[https://archive.org/details/britishinasia033318mbp ''The British In Asia''] by Guy Wint 1947 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/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. Includes many chapters about India, from the early days of the East India Company to 1947.
*[https://archive.org/details/1950-while-memory-serves-by-tuker/mode/2up ''While Memory Serves''] by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker. Digital reprint edition reproduced by Sani H Panhwar, originally published 1950. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.525048/page/n7/mode/2up Original edition] Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. 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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526521 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''The British Impact on India'' by Sir Percival J Griffiths 1952. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526461 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The Men Who Ruled India'', by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym), published in three two volumes, ''The Founders'' (1953), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126942 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; ''The Guardians, Volume I'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127071 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India; and ''The Guardians, Volume lI'', (1954) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127070 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India; (1954) by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym). 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.10689.12619/page/n7 ''Asia In The European Age 1498-1955''] by Michael Edwardes 1961. Archive.org, Public Library of India 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishimperiale0000hutt/page/n3/mode/2up ''The British Imperial Experience''] by Robert A Huttenback 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes chapters on India.
*[https://archive.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.
*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. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library unless otherwise indicated.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6806 ''The Partition of India : Policies and Perspectives 1935-1947''] edited by C H Philips and Mary Doreen Wainwright 1970. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India
*[https://archive.org/details/crisisofindianun0000moor/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Crisis of Indian Unity, 1917-1940''] by R J Moore (Robin James) 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Cripps Stafford Cripps] Wikipedia.
:[https://archive.org/details/escapefromempire0000moor/page/n7/mode/2up ''Escape from Empire : the Attlee government and the Indian problem''] by R J Moore (Robin James) 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee Clement Attlee] (Wikipedia) was UK Prime Minister from 1945, having been leader of the Labour Party from 1935 and Deputy Prime Minister under Churchill in a wartime coalition government from 1942.
*''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/crisisofindianun0000moor/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Crisis of Indian Unity, 1917-1940''] by R J Moore (Robin James) 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Cripps Stafford Cripps] Wikipedia.
:[https://archive.org/details/escapefromempire0000moor/page/n7/mode/2up ''Escape from Empire : the Attlee government and the Indian problem''] by R J Moore (Robin James) 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee Clement Attlee] (Wikipedia) was UK Prime Minister from 1945, having been leader of the Labour Party from 1935 and Deputy Prime Minister under Churchill in a wartime coalition government from 1942.
*[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/raj00lawr/mode/2up ''Raj : the Making and Unmaking of British India''] by Lawrence James 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingretreatb0000neil/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Fighting Retreat : the British Empire, 1947-1997''] by Robin Neillands c 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes chapters about India prior to Independence.
*[https://archive.org/details/liontigerrisefal0000judd/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Lion and the Tiger : the Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947''] by Denis Judd 2004. [https://archive.org/details/liontigerrisefal0000judd_h7u5/page/n3/mode/2up 2010 reprint edition]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Wx9DQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''Partition: The story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947''] by Barney White-Spunner 2017. Sample pages only, Google Books.
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