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Inscriptions in online books
**A revised edition, with additional information, was published in two volumes 1945-46. The first volume relates to the City of Madras, French India, Indian States and Fort Marlborough on the West Coast of Sumatra. The second volume relates to the districts of the Madras Presidency. There are two indexes at the end of each volume, an index to names on tombs or monuments, and an index to names in notes. [https://archive.org/details/ListOfInscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsMadrasVol1Cotton Volume I] [https://archive.org/stream/ListOfInscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsMadrasVol1Cotton/List%20Of%20Inscriptions%20On%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20Madras%20Vol%201%20%28Cotton%29#page/n9/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/details/ListOfInscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsMadrasVol2Cotton Volume II] [https://archive.org/stream/ListOfInscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsMadrasVol2Cotton/List%20of%20Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20or%20Monuments%20%20Madras%20Vol%202%20%28Cotton%29#page/n5/mode/2up Table of Contents] Archive.org.
:The three volumes also may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*[https://archive.org/details/ListOfTombsAndMonumentsOfEuropeansAndCoInTheMadrasDistrict ''List Of Tombs And Monuments of Europeans &c In The Madras District''] 1898 Archive.org. There is no index. Listed by cemetery and year of death, with deaths up to the 1890s. (65 pages). Also available on the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/ListOfBurialsAtMadrasFrom1801To1850 ''List Of Burials At Madras (In St Mary's Cemetery) from 1801 to 1850 from the Register of St Mary’s Church, Fort St George''] by Rev CH Malden 1904. Archive.org Also available on the Digital Library of India (two files)
*''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Part I]'' by Miles Irving (1910) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=205 Index] (Hathi Trust Digital Library), [https://archive.org/details/InscriptionsOnChristianTombsPunjabKashmirNWFPVol2BiogNotices ''Part II Biographical Notices of Military Officers and others whose names appear in the inscriptions of Part I''] by George William De Rhe-Philipe (1912), (Archive.org) . Both these books were later reprinted under the title ''Soldiers of the Raj''. Part 1 is also available on [https://archive.org/details/ALlistOfInscriptionsOnChristianTombsPunjabKashmirNWFPVol1Inscriptions Archive.org], but currently (December 2014) it does not seem possible to read the book online, and it may be necessary to download the file as a pdf or in some other format. The two volumes also may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*[http://www.archive.org/details/listofinscriptio00blunuoft ''List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] by Sir Edward Arthur Henry Blunt (1911) Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/listofinscriptio00blunuoft#page/264/mode/2up Index of names], following page 263.
*List in ''Bengal, Past and Present Volume 41, Part 2, April-June 1931'' called "Monumental Inscriptions in the United Provinces Part 2" pages 148-156 by Captain H Bullock (computer page 72) [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalpastprese01socigoog#page/n72/mode/1up Archive.org]. Includes some corrections to Blunt transcriptions.<br> (Part 1 is pages 58-67 Volume 41, January-March 1931, unfortunately not online <br>Further monumental inscriptions are in Volume 44 (of BPP), page 169 but computer page 78,which may be read online on the Digital Library of India website. (contents is digital file page 7 and volume commences at page 103) Refer [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Online books-Digital Library of India]] for more details about this site.
*The following books are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
**''List of Burials at Madras (in St Mary’s Cemetery) from 1801 to 1850 from the Register of St Mary’s Church, Fort St George'' by Rev CH Malden 1904. There are two book files, both catalogued as ''list of burials at madras from 1801 to 1850'' Note: both files may be very slow to read.
**''List of Tombs and Monuments of Europeans etc in the Madras District'' 1898 catalogued as ''list of tombs and monuments of europeans, and co. in the madras district'' 1898. There is no index. Listed by cemetery and year of death, with deaths up to the 1890s. (65 pages)
**''List of European Tombs in the Tanjore District'' 1914 Contents, digital file page 6 (Madras Presidency, includes [[Tranquebar]])
**''Inscriptions on tombs or monuments in Rajputana and Central India'' by O S Crofton. Table of Contents digital file page 14. Author is catalogued as Croften and publication date 1905, but the latter appears to be c 1934-35
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