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British Library Records
**Also contains items "List of inscriptions". As an example, the FIBIS data base contains [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=856&s_id=253 Transcriptions of summary data from gravestones in Chakrata taken from IOR/R4/539]
:Note these records are available on [[Family Search]] microfilm/digitised microfilm <ref>Microfilm catalogue entry [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1112010 British High Commission cemetery records, ca. 1870-1967] (See [[FamilySearch Centres]] for access.)</ref> where there is more detail provided about the individual items, in the "Film Notes".
*''Bengal Past and Present'' which was the ''Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'' was issued from 1907. Some issues contained articles about burial inscriptions. Most editions are held by the British Library, although some appear to be missing. There is also an ''Index'' volume for the years 1907-1985, available on open access in the Asian & African Studies Reading Room. Many editions are now available online, see the Fibiwiki page [[Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society]].*There is an extensive collection of records in the BACSA archive at the British Library, refer [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia]], Mss Eur F370. The BACSA archive also includes publications, one BACSA listing is [https://www.bacsa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Reference-materials-geographical.pdf "Publications containing data chiefly of geographical interest"], where at least two of the publications do not appear to be listed elsewhere ''Inscriptions on Christian graves and memorial tablets in the Purnea District, Bihar and Orissa'' by Rev H Hosten, SJ (Patna, 1920) photocopy of printed book Mss Eur F370/1156, and ''List of European tombs and monuments in Mysore'', by B Lewis Rice (Bangalore 1906) F370/1188, the latter possibly also available at IOR/R/2/Box17/106, with title ''File 299 1905 European tombs and monuments in Mysore'', or perhaps this is a different file. There is also a BACSA listing titled "Publications containing data chiefly of biographical interest", see [[BACSA]], where geographical coverage is mixed/covers multiple locations.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/215ccc3f-27e0-459f-90c8-765da76a5b93 Lloyd Collection: papers on European cemeteries in India and biographical information on British in India Mss Eur F146]
*There are Monumental Inscriptions from Surat made by A F Bellasis, at the British Library, catalogue reference [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:LSCOP_BL:IAMS032-002017547 Add MS 44948 : c 1860]. These Inscriptions contain additional records to those appearing in the 1861 article by Bellasis "Old Tombs in the Cemeteries of Surat", available online, see below.
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