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*''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''
