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*[https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/ ICRC Archives] in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has some records in respect of refugees from Burma. <ref>Milner, Rowland [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-09/0936457211 Family History Donald Mellican] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 04 September 1999. Retrieved 20 January 2015</ref>
====Historical books online====
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945, may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, including as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129 pdf download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 Archive.org version]. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
*[http://ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Geren/diary.html ''Burma Diary''] by Paul Geren published 1943 In 1941 Paul Geren agreed to spend two years at Judson College in Rangoon, Burma, as a short-term missionary under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Following the Japanese bombing Professor Geren's classroom became a field hospital as he offered his services as an ambulance driver to Dr. Gordon Seagrave, the famed Burma surgeon. He later trekked to India. From the website ourstory.info
*'''Also see [[Gazetteers#Burma|Gazetteers-Burma]] for more online Gazetteers'''.
*[https://archive.org/details/NicoloDeContisEarlyFifteenthCenturyTravelsInTheEast "Early Fifteenth Century Travels in the East: Nicolò de' Conti of Venice"]. From the 1579 translation by John Frampton, with notes by Kennon Breazeale. ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'' Vol 2, No 2 Autumn 2004. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/EditorialIntroductionToNicolDeContisAccountByKennonBreazeale "Editorial Introduction to Nicolò de' Conti's Account"] by Kennon Breazeale from the same ''SOAS Bulletin''. Archive.org. For additional online accounts of Nicolò de' Conti, see [[Travel accounts online]].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/81816 ''Early English Intercourse With Burma 1587-1743''] by D G E Hall 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81816 Archive.org version]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=w-4rBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books reprint of the 1968 edition]
*''Oriental Repertory'' by Alexander Dalrymple ''Volume 1'' 1793 and ''Volume 2'' 1808 contain a number of references to early Burma. See [[Scientific books online]]
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/4YMB6WYOH2UZRZX6KAM2F7GFJ52VCCOD ''A Concise Account Of The Climate, Produce, Trade, Government, Manners, and Customs, Of The Kingdom Of Pegu''] by W. Hunter A.M. Surgeon. Calcutta printed reprinted London 1789 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek “The result of observations made on a voyage performed by order of the Hon. East-India Company”
*''Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ...'' by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879. [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb01pollgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb00pollgoog Volume II] Archive.org
:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar''] by Colonel Pollock, Madras Staff Corps 1896. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University. [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version] In 1853 the author was appointed to the Madras Sappers and Miners in Burma.
*''The British Burma Gazetteer'': [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/lsidyv390a46e9#ark:/81055/vdc_00000003500F.0x000007 Volume I] 1880 itemViewer British Library. Also available through the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue] as a pdf download (enter title, and then select 'I want this'); [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/105579 Volume I] 1880 Pdf download, Digital Library of India [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105579 Archive.org version]; [http://www.archive.org/stream/britishburmagaze02spea ''Volume II''] A-Z 1879 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/b2475741x ''The Practice of Medicine Among the Burmese''] by Keith Norman MacDonald, late Civil Surgeon of Prome. 1879. Archive.org
*''The River of Golden Sand: being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah'' by Captain William Gill R. E. [https://archive.org/details/riverofgoldensan01gill Volume I 1880], [https://archive.org/details/rivergoldensand02yulegoog Volume II 1880] [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023220217 Condensed [memorial<nowiki>]</nowiki> edition 1883] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/notesstatisticsi00burmrich ''Notes and statistics in four parts, compiled in the Office of the Chief Secretary to the Chief Commissioner''] Rangoon [https://archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] 1893 Archive.org. Lists the cantonments, railway stations, Telegraph offices, Volunteer Regiments etc.
**[https://archive.org/stream/notesstatisticsi00burmrich#page/n288/mode/1up 1891 Outline Map of Burma]
*''Routes in Upper Burma'' by A B Fenton 1894. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/181518 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.181518 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/46887 Volume 2] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46887 Archive.org version]. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of Indiawith mirror versions on Archive.org. Full title: ''Routes in Upper Burma, including the Chin Hills and Shan States, to which are added a number of routes leading from Lower Burma and Siam into those districts''. Compiled for the Quartermaster-General of the Madras Army.
*''Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States'' 1900-1901 (Archive.org)
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb01hardgoog Part 1, Volume 1] includes Chapter 10, Ethnology with Vocabularies [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb03hardgoog Part 2, Volume 1 A-K] [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb02hardgoog Part 2, Volume 2 L-P] [http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerupperb00hardgoog Part 2, Volume 3 R-Z]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/burmapainteddesc00kelliala#page/n9/mode/2up ''Burma, painted and described''] Robert Talbot Kelly, 1905 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023503190 ''Burma: A Handbook Of Practical Information''] by Sir J. George Scott 1906. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924011680455 New and revised version 1911] Archive.org
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463075 ''Burma From The Earliest Times To The Present Day''] by J G Scott, 1924 is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463075 Archive.org version].
*[http://archive.org/stream/romanticeastburm00delmrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir''] by Walter Del Mar 1906 "Containing sixty-four full page illustrations from photographs" Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/frontieroverseas05indi ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume V: Burma''] Compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Army Headquarters, India. 1907 Archive.org
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=Calcutta;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=sea289 ''Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma''] 1920 Southeast Asia Visions
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up ''Burma Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version]. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n645/mode/2up/search/Rangoon+riots Rangoon riots in 1930] pages 551-553, ''India in 1930-1931'' Government of India 1932 Archive.org
*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, barcode 99999990848901, and is also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528179 pdf download], 99999990796111. The author was a member of the Civil Service in Burma, and his autobiography covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930. Also see [[Maurice Collis]].
