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Inscriptions in online books
:Also available Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository : [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6657/mode/2up 1896 edition] ([https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6716/mode/2up 1895 edition]).
:Also available from [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/List_of_inscriptions_on_tombs_or_monuments_in_Bengal.pdf wikimedia.org] as a pdf.
:The Preface says Wilson was the editor of a work brought together by the Publics Work Department "a special officer being deputed for the work". Elsewhere it has been stated there are a limited number of copies of the "original version" by the special officer c 1895 (who was named but a reference cannot be found).
*[https://archive.org/details/inscriptions-patna/page/n7/mode/2up ''List of Pre-Mutiny Inscriptions in Christian Burial Grounds in the Patna District''] by J F W J [John Francis William James]. Government of Bihar publication.
*'''Madras Presidency'''
**[https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n5/mode/2up ''Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras possessing historical or archaelogical interest''] Julian James Cotton 1905 archive.org.“It includes all epitaphs of adults earlier than 1800 and such entries of later date as possess historical or local interest”. Covers the Madras Presidency. [https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n15/mode/2up Table of Contents] An Index of names appears at the end.
**[https://archive.org/details/grave-inscriptions-hunsur/mode/2up Grave Inscriptions at Hunsur]. Archive.org. Scroll to the last five pages of this article which lists in English the grave inscriptions. Article otherwise in the Kannada language. Venkateshamurthy, R. and H. R. Hemaraju (2000) "Hunasurina British Samaadhigalu [The British Tombs at Hunasur]". ''Itihasa Dharshana'' 15:156-165. Hunsur (Hoonsoor) was situated about 30 miles west of the town of Mysore, and was c 1844 the head quarters of the Public Cattle Department, Madras Army.
*''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], and previously it did not seem possible to read the book online, but this problem seems to have resolved.
*"God’s Acre in North-West India" by Colonel R. H. Firth ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1914. A record of the names, the careers, and details as to the graves of, or monuments to, all the medical officers buried or memorialized in the Punjab, the North-west Frontier Province, and Kashmir. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/23/3/320.full.pdf Part 1] Volume 23:3 320-333 and [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/23/4/415.full.pdf Part 2] Volume 23:4 415-439 . Archive.org versions [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1914-vol23/page/319/mode/2up page 320], [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1914-vol23/page/415/mode/2up page 415].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.22864 ''List of Christian Tombs and Monuments of Archaeological or Historical Interest and their Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh''] by Rev A Fuhrer 1896 Archive.org. Note: entire book is printed sideways. Also available on [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015083010952 HathiTrust Digital Library], where the pages may be rotated. This book was subsequently revised and enlarged as Blunt's 1911 publication which follows
:[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.
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