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:''Portrait Sketches of the public characters of Calcutta, published in the "India Review", "India Medical"... from 1838 to 1850'' by Colesworthey Grant. Catalogued 1863, but possibly earlier. Text followed by the Portrait Sketches. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082439443&view=1up&seq=7 HathiTrust Digital Library]. (2nd part of book file is [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082439443?urlappend=%3Bseq=93 ''Sketches of Oriental Heads''] by Colesworthey Grant). Text only [https://archive.org/details/b30469302 Archive.org]
:The names have been transcribed for a [https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1063&s_id=56 FIBIS Database]
*[https://archive.org/details/yesterdaytodayin00blan ''Yesterday and To-day in India''] by Sydney Laman Blanchard 1867 Archive.org. He was in India c 1854-1864. He was initially editor of the ''Bengal Hurkaru''. [http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=32 Sidney Laman Blanchard (1825–1883)] victorianresearch.org *See [[Food and Drink]] for a 1864 Food and Drink catalogue from Payne & Co., a Calcutta business.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 "Adulterated Liquor sold to Sailors and Soldiers in the Bazars of Calcutta"] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65 "The dangers to which Sailors and Soldiers are exposed in the Bazars of Calcutta"] from ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports'' by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
* ''Indian Gods Sages And Cities'' by C Cesary 1881. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.128152 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India . Contains much information about Calcutta. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.128152/2015.128152.Indian-Gods-Sages-And-Cities#page/n103/mode/2up Third Part] page 101 which includes the area around Calcutta, and [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.128152/2015.128152.Indian-Gods-Sages-And-Cities#page/n157/mode/2up Fourth Part. Notes. On Calcutta and Its Suburbs] page 156. The latter includes on [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.128152/2015.128152.Indian-Gods-Sages-And-Cities#page/n171/mode/2up page 172] information about Catholic schools and orphanages. '''Note''': From the page numbers, many pages appear to be missing, including page 173.
