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*''Municipal Calcutta: Its Institutions in their Origins and Growth'' by SW Goode 1916, is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Table of Contents is computer page 16. Refer [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Online books-Digital Library of India]] for more details about this site
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/58/mode/2up/ "The City of Calcutta"] from ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources'' by Somerset Playne , J W Bond 1917 Archive.org.
*''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society''
:*Volume 39, Part 1 Jan-March 1930 [http://www.archive.org/details/bengalpastprese00socigoog Archive.org]
:Note that a different Journal, with a somewhat similar name, is the Calcutta Historical Journal, published by the University of Calcutta, first published July 1976, available at the [[British Library]]
:*[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/cmadge/Baptisms%20in%20Calcutta%201767-1777.pdf Baptisms 1767 -1777] and [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/cmadge/Baptisms%20in%20Calcutta%201778-1782.pdf Baptisms 1778-1782] Transcriptions from Registers of St John's, Calcutta by E W Madge as they appeared in Bengal Past and Present – this link is to website of Madge Family of Bengal. The first page of the second pdf lists articles in other volumes of BP&P containing transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials to 1800. Each listing contains many pages of biographical notes (13 and 16 pages respectively)
*John Williamson Palmer was an American [[Doctor|doctor]] and author who wrote c 1858 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta<ref> Reprinted in ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist'', page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858 </ref>. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58937~!41&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Photograph of Man in Palki (Palanquin) in Calcutta] from the Smithsonian Institution. Click image to enlarge.
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