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Famous or important people involved in the history of British India.
 
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Biographies: CE Buckland's [http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/1/mode/1up/ 1906 Dictionary of Indian Biography] provides many references to key people that served in India.
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*[http://thesikhencyclopedia.com/the-british-and-sikhs-1849-1947/european-adventurers-of-northern-india.html?directory=1 European Adventurers Of Northern India 1785 to 1849] by G. Grey. Online version which was first published in 1929 and reprinted by the Languages Department, Punjab, Patiala, in 1970, contains biographical sketches of over one hundred Europeans who came to or served in the Punjab during Sikh times. Available as [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC Limited View Google Books] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT54 Index] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT52 Bibliography]
 
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*“As Charles Allen shows in his book, under  Sir William Jones, the Asiatic Society of Bengal became the scholarly nerve centre that brought together all the different amateur enthusiasts busily working at uncovering the deepest roots of India's lost pre-Islamic history. In the society's Calcutta premises were collated reports sent in from a huge range of eccentric figures working away at translating Buddhist scrolls or ancient rock inscriptions, Gandharan coins or Tibetan mythologies, far separated from each other in remote outposts between the highest peaks of the Himalayas in Tibet and Nepal, through the arid plains of the Deccan to the thickest jungles of 18th-century Burma and Ceylon.”  ''The Buddha and the Sahibs'' by Charles Allen 2002 reviewed by William Dalrymple, author of the ''White Mughals'', in the [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview4 Guardian],  and  in the [http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/20265/light-from-eastern-windows.thtml Spectator] available from [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddha-Sahibs-Discovered-Indias-Religion/dp/0719554284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260482001&sr=8-1 Amazon.co.uk]. This link from the [http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/wwwopac.exe?&qDB=catalo&DATABASE=dcatalo&LANGUAGE=0&rf=200215850&SUCCESS=false Royal Historical Society] lists out some of the people covered in the book.
 
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Famous or important people involved in the history of British India.

Also see People associated with the British East India Company

Biographies: CE Buckland's 1906 Dictionary of Indian Biography provides many references to key people that served in India.

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