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Variants: Calcutta, Kulkuttu<br> ==FIBIS resources==*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=973&s_id=294 FIBIS database: Percy-Smith/Bullock papers Graves and Monuments] contains some entries from the "Church of Our Lady of Delores, Baithakhana, Calcutta and Surah Cemetary. Hand written transcript taken and rearranged from 'The Registers & Inscriptions of the Church of Our Lady etc. by Rev H. Hosten Calcutta 1915", refer [[Calcutta#Churches and missions| Churches and missions, Roman Catholic, below]]. This church was founded in 1810 and some of the records date back to that early period. Entries were noted in [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1620&s_id=973 Inscriptions Volume 1], but it is not known if there are additional entries in other volumes*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Category:Calcutta_images Images of Calcutta in Fibiwiki collection]*"Eliza Fay: New Aspects" by David Atkinson ''FIBIS Journal Number 24 (Autumn 2010)'', pages 1-11. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]].*"The Imhoff Inheritance" by Pippa Milnamow ''FIBIS Journal Number 27 (Spring 2012''), pages 3-13. Includes details of Belvedere House, now the National Library. == Military history ==[[Battle of Calcutta]] 1757<br> [[:Category:3rd Carnatic War|3rd Carnatic War]]

[[Image:Calcutta map 1862 .jpg|thumb|250px|Calcutta in 1862]]==== The Maidan ====The site of [[Fort William]], the Maidan was (and still is) the centre of Calcutta. It was bounded on the west side by the Hooghly River and the Strand Road, and on the east side by Chowringhi Road. Government House, the Governor's residence, was at the north end of the Maidan and Belvedere, the residence of the LieutenentLieutenant-Governor of Bengal, was near the southern end.

==== Eden Gardens====The Eden Gardens were started by Lord AuklandAuckland's sisters and are beautifully laid out. They were the main gathering place of Calcutta Society in the time of the British Raj. They are also the home of India's oldest cricket ground, the Calcutta Cricket Club, and have a lake which was the home of the [http://www.calcuttarowingclub.co.in/about.php Calcutta Rowing Club]. Beside the lake is a Burmese Pagoda brought from [[Prome ]] and set up in 1856. There were many statues in the Gardens.[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=File:Eden_Gardens._Calcutta.JPG Calcutta Eden Gardens ]Links to a postcard of Eden Gardens in the [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Category:Images Fibiwiki images collection]

*St James Church - see ''[[http://members.fibis.org/archive/J5.pdf FIBIS Journal ]] 5], '', "The Man Who Built St James Calcutta''"*St John's Cathedral Church - conscreated consecrated 1787. - (for links to some digital images and transcriptions of church registers see external links below). *[[St Paul's Cathedral]] - completed in 1847. *St Peter's Church, [[Fort William]] - built 1828. [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000004042u00000000.html 1835 Watercolour] (British Library). [http://www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/4517308383/in/set-72157612613850222/ Photograph c 1850] (flickr.com)*[http://archive.org/stream/thackersguidetoc00firm#page/69/mode/1up St Thomas’ Church], part of the [[Orphans|Free School]] , completed 1831*'Old' Mission Church - see article in ''[[FIBIS Journal]] 7'', includes a list of graves. Also see [http://membersasiaticus.blogspot.fibisco.orguk/2012/archive06/J7kiernanders-church.pdf FIBIS Journal 7html Kiernander's Church], includes a list of gravesasiaticus.blogspot.co.uk.*St Stephen's, Kidderpore. Photographs: Kidderpore Church: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/3166127172/ 2008] (flickr.com)*Church Districts in Calcutta (as from September 1847) [https://archive.org/details/bengalchaplainsv00cars/page/26/mode/2up Page 26] ''Bengal Chaplain's Vade-Mecum, or a collection of extracts from various sources which will guide a chaplain in the performance of the duties of his office, and also be of use to him in other respects'' by Joseph James Carshore, Chaplain on the Bengal Establishment 1857 Archive.org.* The contact details for the Church of North India in Calcutta is given in the website of the [http://cnicalcutta.org/ Diocese of Calcutta, CNI], or [https://www.anglicancommunion.org/structures/member-churches/member-church/diocese.aspx?church=north-india&dio=calcutta Diocese: Calcutta] anglicancommunion.org<gallery>File:St James Calcutta - Exterior View October 2010.jpg|Exterior View of St James ChurchFile:Pulpit St James Calcutta Oct 2010.jpg|Pulpit at St James ChurchFile:Interior St James Calcutta Oct 2010.jpg|Interior View of St James ChurchFile:Altar St James Calcutta Oct 2010.jpg|Altar of St James ChurchFile:Earliest Vicars St James Calcutta.jpg|Early Vicars of St James ChurchFile:Font St James calcutta.jpg|Font of St James Church</gallery>

*RC Cathedral (Virgin Mary of the Rosary) - built 1797. Also known as the Portuguese Church, it was located in the area called Murgihatta (Murghihatta, now Murgighata). <ref>"Shortly after the English came, the Portuguese who were the only people who kept fowls, were allotted a quarter which came to be designated as Murgihatta". Comment by A K Roy [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0RrOpM9L5xMC&pg=PA31 page 31] ''Calcutta Mosaic: Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta'' Google Books</ref>

*St Thomas' Church - begun (Middleton Row). Begun in 1841, adjacent to the Convent of Our Lady of Loreto*Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Boitakhana (Baithakhana), founded in 1810, as a Portuguese mission church. The address of the Church was 147 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street (Old Bowbazar Street). It is situated quite close to the Sealdah Station, and near the Railway Barracks where most of the Anglo Indian who were employed by the Railway lived.<ref>Munro, George [Joyce] [https://web.archive.org/web/20210210021919/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=7731504 Entally] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 1 December 2004, archived.</ref> A book was published in 1915 in Calcutta ''The Registers & Inscriptions of the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Baithakhana (1810-1914)'' by [https://web.archive.org/web/20170126052141/http://www.goethals.in/collections/felixrajarticles/Hhosten.htm Fr H Hosten]. A copy of this book is available in Calcutta at the [http://www.goethals.in/default.htm Goethals Indian Library] category Various Indian Missions subcategory Portuguese Jurisdiction, reference Id : 38L/135. At least some of the records appear in the [[Calcutta#FIBIS resources|FIBIS database, refer above]], but it is suspected that only some of the records were copied by Percy-Smith and Bullock. From copies of baptismal records obtained from the Church in the 1960s, and held by the FIBIS research co-ordinator, it would appear that some of the registers in the 1800s were noted in Portuguese. :[https://web.archive.org/web/20151009030439/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060415/asp/calcutta/story_6095119.asp "Non-Christians in church flock"] April 15, 2006. telegraphindia.com, now an archived webpage. Article about Our Lady of Dolours. *[http://www.goethals.in/GoethalNews/2008Apr-JunGNews.htm Catholic <nowiki>[</nowiki>and other<nowiki>]</nowiki> Heritage Churches of Calcutta] goethals.in*[http://www.archdioceseofcalcutta.in/archdiocese.html The <nowiki>[</nowiki>Catholic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Archdiocese of Calcutta] with [http://www.archdioceseofcalcutta.in/contact.html contact details]

'''Other denominations'''*St Andrew's Church of Scotland - opened 1818. [http://www.standrewschurchkolkata.in Website for St Andrew’s Church] with contact details. Previously the website advised that the church holds the Scottish Cemetery Burial Register from its inception in 1826 and Baptism and Marriage Registers of St Andrew's Church, Kolkata and for small fee would search and provide a copy of an extract. St Andrew's also holds the Baptism and Marriage Registers and some other documents for Church of Scotland cantonment Churches throughout India, Ceylon, Burma and some Gulf stations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130923172221/http://standrewschurch-kolkata.org/index.html Previous Home page] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130926204733/http://standrewschurch-kolkata.org/archive.html Archive] St. Andrew's Church. Retrieved 28 October 2014</ref> Note however this wording no longer appears. It is believed the St. Andrew's Church burial registers (11 volumes) may have been digitised some years ago, (possibly when restoration work was done by INTACH in 2013-14) but currently (2019/01) they are not known to be available online. In the past a researcher reported a lack of response to emails, so a personal visit may be necessary. Note also that this church is now part of the [Anglican/Protestant] Church of North India, refer above.*Greek Church - established 1780. *Holy Church of Nazareth ([[Armenian]]) - built in 1724. Dr. Reuben Khachaturyan/Liz Chater have transcribed all the baptisms at this church. They can be viewed on the [http://www.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=195&s_id=126 FIBIS database]. Liz also has many photos of graves at the Nazereth Nazareth Church on [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chaterfamilytree/nazareth_church.htm her website].

See [[Cemeteries in Calcutta]].There is also information about the crematorium. ==Church Records==*[https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:St._John%27s_Church,_Kolkata_GLAM Digitial images of Church Registers from St John's Church Kolkata] GLAM Wikimedia

*[http://books.google.com/books?id=-8KgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA442 "The Educational Establishments of Calcutta Past and Present"]. Article - article in the ''Calcutta Review '' Volume 13, (January-June 1850), page 442 (Google Books)<br> .*[http://books.google.com/books?id=22koAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA57 "Reports on Colleges and Schools in India"] , article in the ''Calcutta Review'' Volume 42 1866, page 57*[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/cmadge/Old%20Calcutta%20It%27s%20School%20Masters.pdf "Old Calcutta :It’s Schoolmasters"] article in the ''Calcutta Review'' July 1913 held on website of Madge Family of Bengal. Also on [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.20871/2015.20871.The-Calcutta-Review1913#page/n91/mode/2up Archive.org, page 338, 1913, July].

 Also refer '''[[Orphans#Calcutta|Orphans]]''' and '''[[Calcutta schools c late 1700s]]''' *Benevolent Institution School - see these two references from [http://books.google.com/books?id=_10pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133 1818] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&pg=PA219 1851] *[http://www.lmbcal.com/ La Martiniere School ] - established 1836[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Martiniere_Calcutta Wikipedia], [http://www.lmgcal.edu.in/history.htm La Martiniere For Girls, Kolkata]. Also see 'Historical books online' below

*St Thomas School, Kidderpore - founded 1789as the [[Orphans#Calcutta|Free School]]

==Also see==*[[Fort William]]*[[Bengal Pilot Service]]*[[1864 Calcutta cyclone]] == External Links links ==

*[httphttps://www.1911encyclopediaecatholic2000.com/cathopedia/vol3/volthree160.shtml "[Catholic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Archdiocese of Calcutta"] from ''The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3 1913''. A transcription. ecatholic2000.com:[https://archive.org/Calcutta Calcuttadetails/V03CatholicEncyclopediaKOfC/page/n183/mode/2up Original publication] 1911 LovetoKnowArchive.org

*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/calcuttamaps/calcuttamaps.html Calcutta Maps 1756,1839,1847,1883] from the [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/#fwp website] of Prof. Frances Pritchett, Columbia University*[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:4178090?buttons=y Calcutta Map 1832] by J.B. Tassin. Published in Calcutta [http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/digitalmaps/ Harvard Digital Maps] (HOLLIS ID 011490109)

See the [[Directories reading listonline]] for links to many directories with information on Calcutta.*[http://www.archive.org/details/thackersguidetoc00firm handbookbengalp00eastgoog ''Handbook of the Bengal Presidency. With an account of Calcutta City''] by Edward E Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org*''Thacker's Guide to Calcutta '' (1906)] by Rev W.K. Firminger a noted historian. This book gives the historical background of Calcutta, area by area. A free Read online or download [http://www.archive.org/details/thackersguidetoc00firm Archive.org]*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:289 ''Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma''] 1920 Southeast Asia Visions =====Images=====*Search the British Library [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/index.html Online Gallery APAC Collection] for Calcutta*[http://victoriamemorial-cal.org/home/content/en Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta] The Memorial is available the largest repository in India for a visual history of Calcutta**[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/calgallery.html The Calcutta Gallery], now an archived webpage, displays the history and development of Calcutta up to 1911, when the capital was moved to Delhi. The gallery also has a life size diorama of the view of the Chitpur road in the late 19th century. Chitpur was then the main business centre, presently known as the Burabazar area. Note, it is unclear whether this Gallery still exists.**[http://web.archive.org/web/20150705131407/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/cdoyly.html Views of Calcutta and its Environs], now an archived webpage. A series of 28 Lithographs (click to view all) by Sir Charles D'oyly, 1781-1845, published 1848. An amateur artist of superb talent, he served in India between 1803 and 1838**[https://web.archive.org/web/20151113162116/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/daniells.html Aquatints made by Thomas and William Daniell] in the late eighteenth century, mainly views of Calcutta. Now an archived webpage. There appear to be additional online paintings by the Daniells on the VMH website, in the category "Western Painting".*A collection of photographs from [http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll29 ''India Illustrated: Being a Collection of Pictures of the Cities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, Together with a Selection of the Most Interesting Buildings and Scenes throughout India''], published by Bennett, Coleman, & Co., publishers of the English language newspaper ''Times of India'', c 1905. University of Houston Digital Library.* A collection of [http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1176421 Indian Glass Plates] mainly of Calcutta c 1912 Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland. Includes photographs of buildings lit at night for the Royal visit in 1912, see [[Delhi Durbar#External links|Delhi Durbar - External links]] for details.*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/sets/72157606492883938 Photographs: Calcutta] An album by DBHKer flickr.com. British Raj era buildings. Includes a present day map indicating where the buildings are located.*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/calcutta/calcutta.html Calcutta] with images from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/ Prof. Frances Pritchett’s webpage]*''Calcutta Faces and Places in Pre-camera Days'' by Wilmont Corfield 1910 [http://www.archive.org/details/calcuttafacespla00corf Archive.org]*[http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4913420 Clyde Waddell photograph album of Calcutta, 1945-1946] Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania. Clyde Waddell was the personal photographer of Lord Louis Mountbatten who was the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in India–Burma during WW2.<ref>[http://sohamchandra.blogspot.com/2015/06/calcutta-vs-kolkata-revisiting-yanks.html "Calcutta v/s Kolkata ... Revisiting A Yank's Memory"] June 6, 2015 Wunderlust. Retrieved 23 July 2016.</ref>:[http://www.flickr.com/photos/udayms/sets/72157594177409787/ Calcutta 1947]. Photographs, at least some of which appear to come from the above album, on flickr.com.*[http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=563&chapterid=159&picturesize=medium Calcutta] from Great Mirror*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170722053817/http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=288984 Writers' Building, Kolkata] Photographs from Skyscrapercity.com, now archived.

*[http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27917 ''Calcutta, from fort to city: A study of a colonial settlement, 1690-1750''] by Thomas Andrew Mansfield 1 October 2012 Phd thesis, University of Leicester.*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/app-brings-kolkatas-history-alive/article7927723.ece '"App brings Kolkata’s history alive'"] by Shiv Sahay Singh November 29, 2015 ''The Hindu''. Install [http://www.time-scape.org Timescape: Kolkata]. Free App, for use in Calcutta.*[https://www.livehistoryindia.com/lhi-book-club/2021/02/08/robert-ivermee Robert Ivermee on ''Hooghly: The Global History of a River''] Live History India Book Club. Contains a YouTube video (50 minutes). Includes the establishment of Calcutta. *[http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/black-hole-calcutta The Black Hole of Calcutta] by Richard Cavendish ''History Today Volume 56 Issue 6 2006''. This incident occurred on the night of 20 June 1756 at Fort William.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150912043915/http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_publishing_group/documents/web_document/wtd006093.pdf "Town planning and public health in Calcutta in the 18th and 19th centuries"] by Dr Partho Datta ''Wellcome History'' Issue No.22 February 2003, pages 2-4, archived.*Changed street names, old and new [https://web.archive.org/web/20130810222819/http://www.calcuttaweb.com/roadnamech.shtml Calcuttaweb.com] archived, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160313224317/http://www.cyp.in/showUsefulInformation.asp?useCatid=29&useCatName=Changed%20Street%20Names Calcutta Yellow Pages] archived.*Articles, with photographs by Dibyendu Banerjee. noisebreak.com. Scroll down for individual entries, and click to expand each entry. There is more than one page of entries for each category.**[http://noisebreak.com/category/kolkata/churches-synagogues-of-colonial-calcutta/ Churches & Synagogues Of Colonial Calcutta] **[http://noisebreak.com/category/kolkata/legend-of-the-lost/ Legend Of The Lost] Businesses, including department stores, restaurants, hotels etc , from the past.**[http://noisebreak.com/category/kolkata/heritage-schools-of-colonial-calcutta/ Heritage Schools Of Colonial Calcutta]**[http://noisebreak.com/category/kolkata/heritage-clubs-of-calcutta/ Heritage Clubs Of Calcutta]*[http://double-dolphin.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_27.html Heritage Buildings of Calcutta (Kolkata)] double-dolphin.com*[http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/10/writers-building-kolkata-history-cities-50-buildings "The Writers' Building, Kolkata"] by Srinath Perur 10 April 2015 theguardian.com*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/restoring-value-to-the-currency-building/article6880033.ece "Restoring value to the Currency Building"] by Shiv Sahay Singh February 11, 2015 ''The Hindu''. The Currency Building was built in 1833 for housing the Agra Bank and then the Reserve Bank of India till 1937*Second World War**[http://calcutta1940s.org/Frames.html Calcutta 1940’s] Oral history site**[https://web.archive.org/web/20150919014907/http://www.oldmartiniansassociation.co.uk/documents/POLICINGWARTIMECALCUTTA.pdf Policing Wartime Calcutta <nowiki>[</nowiki>WW2<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Peter R. Moore oldmartiniansassociation.co.uk, now archived.**[http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/WW2/1093-In-the-Skies-of-Calcutta.html In the Skies of Calcutta : A tribute to Maurice Pring] by Joydeep Sircar. Details the bombing of Calcutta in December 1942 bharat-rakshak.com**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/50/a5756150.shtml The bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese] by Katyun Randhawa bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar**[https://indianvagabond.com/2017/09/04/japanese-air-raids-on-kolkata-during-wwii/amp/ Japanese Air Raids on Kolkata during WWII] indianvagabond.com. * Kolkata Sports Heritage [http://www.scribd.com/doc/7189569/Kolkata-Sports-Heritage Scribd.com], also available [https://pdfslide.net/documents/kolkata-sports-heritage.html pdfslide.net] and [https://dokumen.tips/documents/kolkata-sports-heritage.html dokumen.tips].*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111012141649/http://www.indiarace.com/TurfClubs/Calcutta/RCTC.htm Royal Calcutta Turf Club] Indiarace.com, archived.*[http://www.calcuttarowingclub.co.in/about.php Calcutta Rowing Club]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130630133400/http://www.gqindia.com/content/kolkata’s-finest-gentlemen’s-clubs Kolkata’s finest gentlemen’s clubs] by Ashwin Rajagopalan 12 June 2011 gqindia.com, archived.*[https://www.tollygungeclub.org Tollygunge Club], founded in 1895; [http://www.india-seminar.com/2006/559/559%20belinda%20wright.htm <nowiki>[</nowiki>Memories of<nowiki>]</nowiki> Tollygunge club] by Belinda Wright, probably written 2006; [http://www.flickr.com/photos/46953122@N08/4313864270/ Photograph of the Tollygunge Club, Calcutta: Inside one of the old buildings built during the British Raj] flickr.com*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110922052110/http://www.freemason.com/library/sons01.htm ''The Sons Of Mystery: A Masonic Miscellany From Old Calcutta''] by Pratap Chandra Chunder 1973, archived.*[http://www.joydiv.org/familygoingback/theatres.htm Empire Theatre and Theatre Royal, Calcutta] joydiv.org*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151008212851/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111225/jsp/graphiti/story_14923690.jsp "A merry journey: Take a walk down memory lane as we evoke the ghosts of Christmases past" [Calcutta at Christmas<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Suktara Ghosh and Tania Bhattacharya ''The Telegraph, Calcutta'' 25 December 2011, now an archived webpage.*[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2261676/Cliff-Richards-India-How-singers-career-actually-began-Calcutta.html Cliff's Calcutta: How Richard's singing career actually began in the British Raj] by Steve Turner 13 January 2013 dailymail.co.uk. The singer Cliff Richard , born Harry Rodger Webb in 1940 lived in India until the family left (c 1947). Also see [[Anglo Indian]]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131031234152/http://www.calcuttatramways.com/history.htm Calcutta Tramways Company Limited] was established in 1880. Archived webpage. ====Historical books online====Also see <br>[[Bengal (Presidency)‎#Historical books online|Bengal (Presidency)]]<br>[[Newspapers and journals online]] for many Calcutta publications including the ''[[Calcutta Review]]''*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=9&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V09_266.gif "Calcutta"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 9'', page 260 c 1909*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cQc2AAAAMAAJ2YCoCwtJd1gC&pg=PA3 "Bengal and Fort William"] , page 1, ''A new account of the East Indies, being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688. to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japon'', Volume II 1727 Google Books. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.39275/2015.39275.A-New-Account-Of-The-East-indies--Vol2#page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org: reprint edition of 1739 edition], (from Digital Library of India).*''The early annals of the English in Bengal, being the Bengal public consultations for the first half of the eighteenth century, summarised, extracted, and edited with introductions and illustrative addenda'' by Charles Robert Wilson Archive.org. [http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyannalsofeng01wilsuoft#page/n7/mode/2up Volume 1 1704-1710] 1895, [http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyannalsofeng02wilsuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2 Part 1 1711-1717] 1900*''The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company; being curious reminiscences illustrating manners and customs of the British in India during the rule of the East India Co. from 1600 to 1858; with brief notices of places and people of those times, &c. &c. &c. Compiled from newspapers and other publications'' by W. H. Carey. Archive.org. These books principally refer to Calcutta.**[http://www.archive.org/stream/goodolddayshono02caregoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 1] 1906 (reprint of original published 1882), [http://www.archive.org/stream/goodolddayshono03caregoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 2] 1907 (reprint of original published c 1882-1887), [http://www.archive.org/stream/goodolddaysofhon03careuoft#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 3] 1887*''Selections from Calcutta Gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India'' Volumes I-III by W S Seton-Karr; Volumes IV-V by Hugh David Sandeman. [https://archive.org/details/selectionsfromca01seto/page/n6 Volume I ''1784-1788''] 1864; [https://archive.org/details/selectionsfromca02setoiala/page/n7 Vol. II ''1789-1797''] 1865; [https://archive.org/details/selectionsfromca03setoiala/page/n6 Vol III ''1798-1805''] 1868; [https://archive.org/details/selectionsfromca04seto/page/n8 Vol IV ''1806-1815''] 1868; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207229/page/n5 Vol V ''1816-1823''] 1869. Archive.org.:[Volume VI] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.110351/page/n9 ''The Days of John Company. Selections from Calcutta Gazette, 1824-1832''] Compiled and edited by Shri Anil Chandra Das Gupta 1959. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.2456/page/n5 ''Selections. The Supplements to the Calcutta Gazettes 1871-1874''] 1874 Archive.org.*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GgRXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA251 "A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others, who were suffocated in the Black-Hole in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the Night succeeding the 20th Day of June 1756"], page 251-276 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GgRXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''India Tracts''] by Mr Holwell and Friends. Second Edition 1764 Google Books:[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.9381/page/n3/mode/2up ''List of Europeans and others in the English factories in Bengal at the time of the Siege of Calcutta in the year 1756''] by S Charles Hill 1902 Archive.org.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MeJDAQAAMAAJl&pg=PA313 1794 boundary of Calcutta] page 313 ''Parliamentary Papers: Indian Law Commission: Session 2 February- 24 August 1843'' Google Books*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xHYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275 PP11 ''Asiaticus: in two parts. Part the first, ecclesiastical, chronological, and historical sketches respecting Bengal…''] by [John Hawkesworth] 1803. Google Books [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003577E 1869 Reprint with title ''Calcutta in Days of Yore''] with commentary. British Library Digital Collection.*''Calcutta in the Olden Times-'' Two articles in the Calcutta Review available on Google Books**''Its Localities]Article in '' [http://books.google.com/books?id=cQc2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA275 Calcutta Review Vol 18, July-Dec 1852, p 275 ] **''Its People'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=8DMYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164 Calcutta Review Vol 35, Sept-Dec 1860, p 164]*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXYoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Historical and Topographical Sketch of Calcutta''] by H. James Rainey 1876. Englishman Press, Calcutta. Reprinted from ''The Englishman’s Saturday Evening Journal''. A chronological account of events and social matters to 1835. Google Books.*''Echoes from Old Calcutta: Being Chiefly Reminiscences of the Days of Warren Hastings, Francis and Impey'' by Henry Elmsley Busteed [http://www.archive.org/stream/echoesfromoldca02bustgoog#page/n11/mode/1up 1882 edition]. The 1908 [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6722/page/n3/mode/2up Fourth edition] is much enlarged and this version has correctly rotated images. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Echoes+from+Old+Calcutta%22%29&sort=-date Other versions available] Archive.org.*''Narrative of the Life of a Gentleman Long Resident in India'' by G F Grand. [https://archive.org/details/narrativelifeag00grangoog/page/n6/mode/2up 1814 edition], [https://archive.org/details/narrativeoflifeo00graniala/page/n5/mode/2up 1910 edition] edited , with Notes, for the Calcutta Historical Society by Walter K Firminger. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buck/page/174/mode/1up "Grand, George Francois (1748?-1821)"] page 174 ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' by C E Buckland (Indian Civil Service, retired) 1906 Archive.org. 1766 Bengal Army; 1776 nominated to a writership; 1779 court action involving his wife (see Busteed's book ''Echoes'' immediately above); subsequently divorced and she went to Europe and married Talleyrand; 1782 Collector of Tirhut and promoted the indigo manufacture in Bihar to his own advantage;1788 appointed Judge and Magistrate at Patna, and eventually dismissed.*''The Early History and Growth of Calcutta'' by Binaya Krishna Deb 1905 [http://www.archive.org/details/earlyhistoryand00debgoog Archive.org]*[http://www.archive.org/stream/calcuttapastpres00blec#page/n7/mode/2up ''Calcutta, Past and Present''] by Kathleen Blechynden 1905 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/calcuttaoldandn00cottgoog ''Calcutta, Old and New: A Historical & Descriptive Handbook to the City''] by H E A Cotton 1907 Archive.org. Some pages are poorly filmed. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.98358 1980 Edition edited by N R Ray Archive.org]*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029787383#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Thackerays in India and some Calcutta graves''] by Sir William Wilson Hunter 1897 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/ritchiesinindiae00ritc/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Ritchies in India; extracts from the correspondence of William Ritchie, 1817-1862; and personal reminiscences of Gerald Ritchie''] compiled and edited by Gerald Ritchie 1920 Archive.org. William Ritchie was of the Calcutta Bar and Inner Temple, Member of the Council of the Governor-general, appointed Advocate-General c 1856 and twenty years resident in Calcutta, who died March 22, 1862, age 45. His mother was a Thackeray. Gerald Ritchie was a Bengal Civilian 1875-1901. *[http://books.google.com/books?id=MvgFbfjoUx8C&pg=PR8 ''The history, design, and present state of the religious, benevolent and charitable institutions, founded by the British in Calcutta and its vicinity''] by Charles Lushington 1824 Google Books:[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3584 ''Some Account of Endowments and Institutions in connection with the Diocese and Archdeaconry of Calcutta''] by John H. Pratt, M. A., Archdeacon of Calcutta 1865. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India. Catalogue title includes ''Inntitution''. Includes details of some schools in other areas.*[https://archive.org/details/b22274777/mode/2up ''Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta''] by James Ranald Martin, Presidency Surgeon 1837 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/b21949086/page/n5/mode/2up/ ''Official report on the medical topography and climate of Calcutta : with brief notices of its prevalent diseases, endemic and epidemic''] by James Ranald Martin, Presidency Surgeon 1839 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/b28988048/mode/2up ''Extracts from the topography and vital statistics of Calcutta : embracing observations on these subjects formed at different periods, and officially submitted to the local authorities''] by F P Strong, Surgeon 24-Pergunnahs. A collection, published c 1849, of previously published papers in journals noted on the book webpage, written from 1828 to 1848, but not in chronological order. Archive.org*[http://www.archive.org/stream/recollectionsofc00massiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Recollections of Calcutta for over half a century''] by Montague Massey 1918 Archive.org*''Calcutta in the 19th Century'' by P Thankappan Nair contains extracts by many authors. The contents is digital page 10, and the index is digital page 1028. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.47382 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32155 ''Old Calcutta Cameos''] by B V Roy 1946 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.*[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa ''Bygone Days in India''] by Douglas Dewar 1922. Archive.org. Extracts from accounts by various authors. Includes Calcutta. Covers the period early 1800s to c 1857.*''Memoirs of William Hickey''. Editions edited by Alfred Spencer, published 1913-1925. Note however the comment that a later version, edited by Peter Quennell, London 1960, is to be preferred to that edited by Alfred Spencer, in which some of Hickey’s racier reportage is expurgated.<ref>Footnote in [http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/Golden_jubilee_vol/articles/H_459%20(PJ%20Marshall).htm "The Muharram Riot Of 1779 And The Struggle For Status And Authority In Early Colonial Calcutta"] by P J Marshall ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Golden Jubilee Volume 50 2005''</ref> Quennell’s edition was a one volume selection, with a slightly expanded edition in 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160225021853/https://books-and-records.com/products/58/1913/william_hickey_memoirs_of_a_georgian_rake_folio_society/ William Hickey: Memoirs of a Georgian Rake] books-and-records.com, now an archived webpage.</ref> :Edited by Alfred Spencer: [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofwilliam015028mbp#page/n1/mode/2up Volume 1 1749-1775] [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofwilliam015028mbp#page/n347/mode/2up/search/Index Index] Archive.org, [http://books.google.com/books?id=jXcNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2 1775-1782] [http://books.google.com/books?id=jXcNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA397 Index] Google Books. Volume 3 (1782-1790) and Volume 4 (1790-1809) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41512 Volume III archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41514 Volume 1V Archive.org]. :Edited by Peter Quennell: [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hickrich ''The Prodigal Rake: Memoirs of William Hickey''] 1962, [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hick/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file]. This appears to be the USA title. UK title ''Memoirs of William Hickey'' 1960. [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofwilliam0000hick/page/n3/mode/2up 1984 reprint of 1975 edition]. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.:A subsequent edition, edited by Roger Hudson, was published in 1995 under the title ''Memoirs of a Georgian Rake'', and is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01007249327*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/n8/mode/2up ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''] by Mrs. Kindersley 1777 Archive.org. The letters from India commence with [https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/72/mode/2up Letter 18] in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Letters 20-21, and 64-67 are written from Calcutta. Jemima Kindersley was the wife of a Bengal Army Officer. For further details, including letter transcriptions see [[Travel accounts online]].*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZflAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41 Calcutta in 1774] page 41 ''Genuine Memoirs of Asiaticus'' by Philip Dormer Stanhope 1784. Google Books. The book contains letters written from 1773 to 1778.*''A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ...'' by L de Grandpré, an officer in the French Army. 1803. [https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0001/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0002/page/n5 Volume II]. Includes chapters on Calcutta. Also published with a slightly different title. Archive.org*Calcutta in September 1800, [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA454 part 12] Google Books. (Full details in an India List post.<ref>Evers, Maureen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210102111255/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=2240405 Journals] ''Rootsweb India List'' 30 December 2009, archived.</ref>)*''Indian Recreations; Consisting Chiefly Of Strictures On The Domestic And Rural Economy Of The Mahomedans & Hindoos'' by Rev William Tennant, lately one of His Majesty’s Chaplains in India. Second edition, enlarged and corrected 1804, first published 1803. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WdMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I] With a [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WdMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR7 Glossary Of Indian Terms] page vii [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WdMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR7 Contents] page xxi. Contains chapters on Calcutta. ([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=39BaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=39BaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Contents] page v). Google Books.*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32669/2015.32669.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol29#page/n139/mode/2up "A Young Civilian in Bengal in 1805"] by Isaac Henry Townley Roberdeau, appointed Writer 29th August 1799, page 110, ''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'', Jan-June 1925. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.*Calcutta in 1810 commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA131 page 131] ''Journal of a Residence in India'' by Maria Graham 2nd Edition 1813 Illustrated by Engravings. Google Books*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tEcVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1 ‪''Sketches of India; or, Observations descriptive of the scenery, &c., in Bengal. Written in India in the years 1811-14. With notes on the Cape of Good-Hope and St. Helena…''] ‬1816 Google Books. By an unknown author. Also available as a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005D8AC#?#loaded&c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1439.5689%2C-141.4444%2C4384.1378%2C2828.8889 British Library digital file]. The author has been described as "... certainly not in the services, shows no sign of having been in Company employ (although he is published by the booksellers to the HEIC), and gives no indication as to the purpose of his visit to India. We can only presume that he was a well-informed, and well-connected gentleman of means.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160917063443/https://www.vialibri.net/552display_i/year_1816_600_0.html ViaLibri list of books published in 1816] Scroll to book 13. Retrieved 17 September 2016.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/originalletters00forsgoog ''The Original Letters from India of Mrs. Eliza Fay''] A new edition with an Introduction and notes by Rev Walter Firminger 1908 Archive.org. Originally published in 1817 as ''Original letters from India; containing a narrative of a journey through Egypt and the author's imprisonment at Calicut by Hyder Ally. To which is added, an abstract of three subsequent voyages to India''. By Mrs. Fay. Calcutta, 1817. A further edition, edited by E M Forster, was published in 1925 which is available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61997 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India . A [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501555/2015.501555.Bengal-Past#page/n129/mode/2up Review] page 109 BPP Volume 30, 1925 Archive.org, indicates the latter edition is preferable.*Calcutta c 1819 commences [https://archive.org/stream/sketchesofindia00sherrich#page/106/mode/2up page 106], ''Sketches of India'' by 'An Officer for Fire-Side Travellers At-Home' [Captain Moyle Sherer] 2nd edition, with additions 1824 Archive.org. The author's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyle_Sherer Wikipedia] page indicates he was with the [[34th Regiment of Foot]]. *Calcutta in 1836 commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA7 page 7 of Book 2] ''Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc'' by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one Google Books*''The stranger in India : or, Three years in Calcutta'' by George W. Johnson, Advocate of the Supreme Court at Calcutta. 1843 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eOkDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nbpFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II] Google Books*[https://archive.org/details/b22011213/page/n9 ''An Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch. A letter from an artist in India to his mother in England''] [by Colesworthey Grant] 1849 Archive.org. Includes the artist's sketches and descriptions of domestic life in Calcutta, and description of places such as the various Bazars, including the Burra Bazar "occupied or visited by merchants and travellers from all parts of the East".:''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 [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/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/dli.ernet.528035/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India . Contains much information about Calcutta. Includes [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.528035/page/101/mode/2up Third Part] page 101 which includes the area around Calcutta, and [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.528035/page/155/mode/2up Fourth Part. Notes. On Calcutta and Its Suburbs] page 156. The latter includes on [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.528035/page/171/mode/2up page 172] information about '''Catholic''' schools and orphanages. This book was reprinted in 1987, [http://books.google.com/books?id=OJ_CknHdCbUC Google Books sample pages only].*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000357DE ''Jottings and recollections of a Bengal “Qui hye!”''] by Louis Emanuel [1886] British Library Digital Collection.*[https://archive.org/details/indiansketchesra00daly ''Indian Sketches and Rambles''] by J Bowles Daly 1896 Archive.org. Contains chapters on Calcutta, including [https://archive.org/stream/indiansketchesra00daly#page/60/mode/2up "The General Hospital"] page 60*[https://archive.org/details/calcuttapapercha00sabr/page/n3/mode/2up ''Calcutta Paperchasing Records''] by “X” 1909. Archive.org. Author is catalogued as Sabretache, b. 1867. The Calcutta Paperchase Club was descended from the old Calcutta Hunt.*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.664/page/n1/mode/2up ''Hotch Potch and Kedgeree''] “being mainly Sir Allan Arthur’s personal experience in the “Land of Humour” in Scotland, India and elsewhere…Also a number of Caricatures and Sketches by Mr F C Macrae and others”. Catalogued 1916 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Contains many references to Calcutta, including the Calcutta Scottish [Volunteer Regiment] and Royal Calcutta Turf Club.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84345/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Sheriffs of Fort William from 1775 to 1926...and other matters relating to the city of Calcutta during the past century''] by Charles Moore. 2nd edition 1926. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53429 ''John Barleycorn Bahadur: Old Time Taverns in India''] by Major H Hobbs [Harry] 1944 (2nd edition with Index, first published 1943?) Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. :[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.03119/mode/2up ''Indian Dust Devils''] by Major H Hobbs 1937 Archive.org. Reminiscences of a time 40 or 50 years earlier.:Some other, but not all, publications by this author, published in Calcutta, are available at the [[British Library]]. [http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1196763 Author details] in photograph description from Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland.*''Report of the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Town of Calcutta'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Third Half-yearly Report 1850], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP23 Fourth Half-yearly Report 1851], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP45 Tenth Report, for the year 1853] Google Books*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n427/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 10: Report on the Establishment of Water-Works to Supply the City of Calcutta''] 1853 Archive.org*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0z0DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on the Drainage and Conservancy of Calcutta''] by David Boyes Smith M.D., Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal 1869 Google Books:[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906. Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India including Calcutta, and other cities in the region. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org*''Municipal Calcutta: Its Institutions in their Origins and Growth'' by SW Goode 1916. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.33547 Archive.org], mirror version from Digital Library of India.*[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, edited by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org.*[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 in Calcutta. Tuker appears to have been physically based in Delhi, but visited Calcutta, and there is much information about Calcutta.*[https://archive.org/details/monsoonmorning0000step/page/n5 ''Monsoon Morning''] by Ian Stephens 1966. A picture of India in 1942-44 by the editor of ''The Statesman'', mainly depicting events seen from Calcutta. Archive.org Lending Library. *''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'':''Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'' was first published 1907 and is a very valuable source of information. Volumes are available at the [[British Library]]. There are published indexes, each of one volume, as follows: Volumes 1 (July 1907)-8 (June 1914); Volumes 9 (1914)-18 (1919); Volumes 1 (1907)-85 (1966); Volumes 1 (1907)-104 (1985). In addition, the British Library has an index for Volumes 19-29.:(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]], with some available online, see further on).:A broken range of volumes to 1988, plus a few later, is available online, see '''[[Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society]]''' :*Transcriptions from Registers of St John's, Calcutta by E W Madge as they appeared in ''Bengal Past and Present''. Each listing contains many pages of biographical notes. Some articles are available online, as mirror editions on Archive.org, originally from Digital Library of India. Other articles are available at the [[British Library]]. '''Note''': Records for Baptisms 1767-1777 have been transcribed and are available on the [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1979&s_id=1064&sort=0&st=0&np=14&tn=412 FIBIS database] in the category Publications.:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n351/mode/2up Baptisms 1713-1758] BPP Volume XXI, pp 143-159. Archive.org/DLI:**[https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.26420965?Search=yes&seq=406#page_thumbnails_tab_contents Baptisms 1759-1766] BPP Volume V, pp 325-332 jstor.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.31275/page/n409/mode/2up Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.03979/page/324/mode/2up another Archive.org version]:**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48159/page/n157/mode/2up Baptisms 1767 -1777] BPP Volume XXV, January-June 1923, pp 130-155, Archive.org/DLI:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501554/2015.501554.Bengal-Past#page/n167/mode/2up Baptisms 1778-1782] BPP Volume XXVI 1923, pp 142-168. Archive.org/DLI:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32668/2015.32668.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol28#page/n93/mode/2up Baptisms 1783-1785] BPP Volume XXVIII, pp 193-221. Archive.org/DLI:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501555/2015.501555.Bengal-Past#page/n95/mode/2up Baptisms 1786 to 1788] Volume XXX, 1925, pp 79-107. Also contains an addendum for the years 1783-1785:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32678/2015.32678.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol-9#page/n85/mode/2up Marriages 1713-1754] BBP Volume IX, Part II, Serial No 18, Oct-Dec 1914 pp 217-243. Also [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32678/2015.32678.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol-9#page/n157/mode/2up Marriages 1713-1754-II] pages 282-284. Archive.org/DLI. '''Note''' on page 218 it is stated that in the 18th century, 'Mrs' is often used to denote a young unmarried lady of quality. "'Miss' appears but rarely in these early registers".:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500673/2015.500673.Bengal-Past#page/n105/mode/2up Marriages 1759-1779] BBP Volume IV, July-Dec 1909 pp 486-512. Archive.org/DLI:**[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.03979/page/n159/mode/2up Additional notes to Marriages in Bengal 1759-1779] BBP Volume V, Jan.-June 1910 pp 143-150 Archive.org/DLI (U Calcutta):**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500676/2015.500676.Bengal-Past#page/n195/mode/2up Marriages 1780-1785] BPP Volume VII, pp 164-171. Archive.org/DLI:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.503761/2015.503761.Bengal-Past#page/n51/mode/2up Marriages 1786-1792] BBP Volume XVI, Part I, Serial No 31, Jan-March 1918 pp 41-71. Archive.org/DLI:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n285/mode/2up Marriages 1781-1800 (Supplementary Register)] BBP Volume XXI, pp 76-141. Archive.org/DLI.:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32665/2015.32665.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol10#page/n83/mode/2up Burials 1713-1755] BPP Volume X, Jan-June 1915, Serial Nos 19-20, pp 257-284 . Archive.org/DLI.:**[https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.26420965?Search=yes&seq=165#page_thumbnails_tab_contents Burials 1759-1761] BBP Volume V, pp 136-142 jstor.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.31275/page/n167/mode/2up Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.03979/page/137/mode/2up another Archive.org version]:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500675/2015.500675.Bengal-Past#page/n141/mode/2up Burials 1762-1774] BBP Volume VI 1910, pp 92-126. Archive.org/DLI.:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501558/2015.501558.Bengal-Past#page/n147/mode/2up Burials 1775-81] BPP Volume 31 (Jan-Jun 1926) pages 130-156. Archive.org/DLI.:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501558/2015.501558.Bengal-Past#page/n359/mode/2up Burials 1782-88] Volume 32 II (Oct-Dec 1926) pages 109-132. Archive.org/DLI.:*[https://archive.org/details/bppcalcutta-baptisms-images/mode/2up Baptisms], [https://archive.org/details/bppbengal-marriages-images Marriages], [https://archive.org/details/bpp-calcutta-burials-images/mode/2up Burials] Archive.org mirror versions of the above articles.*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Calcutta+Historical+Journal%22%29&sort=date ''The Calcutta Historical Journal''] Volumes 1-14 1976-1989 published by Calcutta University. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/storylallbazarb00wenggoog '' The Story of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church, Calcutta: Being the History of Carey's Church from 24th April 1800 to the Present Day''] by Edward Steane Wenger 1908 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/storylallbazarb00wenggoog#page/n604/mode/2up An Alphabetical List of members of the Church] and other lists, following page 575. [https://archive.org/stream/storylallbazarb00wenggoog#page/n664/mode/2up Index]*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500671/2015.500671.Bengal-Past#page/n15/mode/2up "Slavery Days in Old Calcutta"] by Syud Hossain, ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume II, Part II 1908'', pages 271-276, Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.*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 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist''], page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858. </ref> [https://learninglab.si.edu/resources/view/90161 Photograph: Man in palki or palanquin], Calcutta. Click through to 2nd image. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Learning Lab website.:[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04022/page/137/mode/2up "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta"] by Frank E Bushby pages 138-141 ''Bengal Past and Present, Vol-41 January-June 1931''. Archive.org *[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RzxcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''‪Rules and Regulations of La Martiniere, Founded in Calcutta Under the Will of Major General Claude Martin: With an Extract of the Will of the Testator, the Decree of the Supreme Court with Regard to the Same, and Other Documents‬''] 1835 Google Books*There are many references to Calcutta, including Catholic churches, in [https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfThePortugueseInBengal ''History of The Portuguese in Bengal''] by J J A Campos 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7149/mode/2up 2nd file, Archive.org], mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.*[https://archive.org/details/blackholeofcalcu0000barb/page/n5 ''The Black Hole of Calcutta : a Reconstruction''] by Noel Barber 1965. Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/printingincalcut0000shaw/page/n5 ''Printing in Calcutta to 1800 : a description and checklist of printing in late 18th-century Calcutta''] by Graham Shaw 1981. Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/calcuttaprofileo0000rayn/page/n5 ''Calcutta : the Profile of a City''] by Nisith Ranjan Ray 1986. Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149376/mode/2up ''Calcutta And Calcuttans From Dihi to Megalopolis''] by Oneil Biswas 1992 Archive.org*For reports on Rats in Calcutta, in connection with plague research, see [[Scientific books online]].*[https://archive.org/details/tomrawgriffinbur00doylrich ''Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos: illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India company's service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situtation in India''] by “ a Civilian and an Officer on the Bengal Establishment” (Sir Charles D'Oyly) 1828 Archive.org*A novel: ''Life in India; or, The English at Calcutta'' by Anne Catharine Monkland 1828 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=e2LvXmd1AWIC&pg=PP5 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lB5hLGUDIwEC&pg=PP11 Volume II], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t-w5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume III] Google Books == References ==

*[http:<references //books.google.com/books?id=8DMYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164 Calcutta in the Olden Times-Its People] Article in Calcutta Review Vol 35, Sept-Dec 1860, p 164 (Google Books)>