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===Southern Asia===The guide is available from the [https://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0003-indian-directories-by-richard-morgan/ FIBIS Shop]. It is split into two parts:
A comprehensive list Monumental inscriptions from the area of monumental inscriptions with biographical notesIndia bordering on Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Arranged district by districtMany tea planters, including records particularly from churchesScotland, lived and died in this corner of India.
A record of Transcriptions from the few remaining graves of explorers, sportsmen and missionaries from the mid-1800s, with biographical details. Includes 20 illustrations and a map.
===Southeast Asia===
===East Asia (the Far East)===
===General===
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Inscriptions on gravestones and memorials can be a rich source of information for the family historian.
The bulk of the recommendations contained in this reading list are published by [http://www.bacsa.org.uk/ British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia] ([[BACSA]]), which is is the primary organisation collating transcripts of inscriptions from churches and graveyards across Asia. In addition to their published material, the archive containing all of BACSA's transcripts is deposited in the private papers collection (shelf mark Mss Eur F370) at the [[British Library]], where it may be consulted by readers. The catalogue of the archive folders is available [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/welcome.asp online].
== FIBIS Guides==
* Morgan, Richard
''FIBIS fact file No 6: Graves in British India''
Part 1. Sources for Indian Memorial Inscriptions and covers Early Transcriptions by each Presidency; Bengal Past and Present; Percy-Smith/Bullock transcriptions; BACSA - its books and archives.
Part 2. Looking for an Indian Grave: Preparation before leaving for India; Preparation in India; Transcription; Photography; the Chowkidar and the Parish Priest; Sharing the Material ==Southern Asia== * ''Christ Church, Polibetta, Coorg, India : burials 1892-1962'' / , edited by Theon Wilkinson. London: BACSA, 1985
A typescript of the Burial Register.
* Cooke, David
''Christian cemeteries of Bimlipatam''. London: BACSA, 1988
Transcripts of memorial inscriptions from British and Dutch tombs from 17th century. With 40 illustrations, plans and a map.
* Cooke, David
Covers the Old Cemetery; Mors Janua Vitae Cemetery; Waltair Cemetery; and church monumental inscriptions. The oldest dates from 1699. Over 70 illustrations.
* Cooke, David
British tombs from 1811. Twenty illustrations, plans and map.
* Cotton, Julian James
''List of European tombs in the Bellary District with inscriptions thereon'', edited by Eileen Hewson. Wem: Kabristan Archives, 2008
First produced in India in 1894 as an A4 booklet listing memorials of army men and their families in this South Indian British cantonment.
Several years later Cotton produced his ''List of inscriptions on tombs or monuments in Madras'' [Presidency] ''possessing historical or archaeological interest'' as volume three in the Indian Monumental Inscription Series. This later book was republished in the 1940s by the Government Press in Madras and is now out of print.
[https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n5/mode/2up Online edition] 1905. archive.org
* Davies, Vincent
Transcripts from tombs of people mostly associated with indigo and sugar factories in North Bihar. Includes 11 illustrations and a map.
* Davies, Vincent
In addition to the transcripts there are biographical notes, illustrations and two maps.
* Davies, Vincent
''A short history of Monghyr and its British cemeteries''. London: BACSA, 2003
The 235 tombstones recorded tell the story of this 'Invalid' station from 1768. With the modern name of Munger this town is in Bihar. With Includes illustrations, maps and plans.
* Farrington, Susan
''Chittagong Christian cemeteries, Bangladesh'' / , compiled by Susan Farrington ; from research by John Radford. London: BACSA, 1999
Transcripts of monumental inscriptions and burial registers, this includes 70 illustrations and plans.
* Farrington, Susan
Around 900 monumental inscriptions dating from 1849. Profusely illustrated and with helpful plans.
* Farrington, Susan
This additional volume contains more inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries, and is once again profusely illustrated.
* Farrington, Susan
Covers the cemeteries, the town's history, the staff college, railways, churches and the horrifying 1935 earthquake. With more than 100 illustrations and plans.
* Farrington, Susan
Covers the main Harley Street Cemetery, with additional monumental inscriptions from four other cemeteries and plaques from churches. Contains 40 illustrations and plans.
* Galsworthy, Aylmer Jean
Inscriptions and biographical notes: graves listed by year of death (1820-1912), plus endowments (1888-1951). Also lists of army personnel, civilians, stonemasons etc.
* ''A Guide to the Christian cemetery, Gilgit, northern areas, Pakistan''. London: BACSA, 2001
* Harfield, Alan
Monumental inscriptions and burial registers. Includes a complete listing of the British and Indian regiments there, along with a history of the garrison. Thirty illustrations.
* Harfield, Alan
The monumental inscriptions for both cemeteries, plus the Burial Registers of Cantonment Cemetery. With 22 illustrations and plans.
* Hewson, Eileen
''Assam and North-East India : Christian cemeteries and memorials 1783-2003''. London: BACSA, 2005
A comprehensive list of monumental inscriptions from churches, graveyards on tea estates and hospitals, plus transcripts from church records. There are biographical notes. Arranged district by district.
This book together with Hewson's ''Digboi War Cemetery'' and ''Guwahati War Cemetery'' provides a complete record of all memorials to be found in the graveyards of Assam and North-East India.
* Hewson, Eileen
''Assam & North-East India Darjeeling and the Dooars : Christian cemeteries and memorials 17831842-20031995''. London: BACSA, 20052006
* Hewson, Eileen
''Digboi War Cemetery, Assam India''. Wem: Kabristan Archives, 2007
Transcripts of 200 memorials, in addition to information extracted from written records and surveys of those who died on the Indian-Burma border during World War 2. There are some biographical details of the deceased.
This book together with Hewson's ''Assam and North-East India'' and ''Guwahati War Cemetery'' provides a complete record of all memorials to be found in the graveyards of Assam and North-East India.
* Hewson, Eileen
''Darjeeling & the Dooars Graveyards in Ceylon, Vol. 1 : Christian cemeteries and memorials 1842-1995Colombo''. London Wem: BACSAKabristan Archives, 20062008 Containing transcriptions of about 775 memorials found in the capital of Sri Lanka, plus some biographical details extracted from surveys and records. This supplements J. Penry Lewis' ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated'' which was published in 1913 and is now out of print.
* Hewson, Eileen
''Graveyards in Kashmir India''. Wem: Kabristan Archives, 2008
Transcripts of European and Indian Christian memorials in this area of the Himalayas, together with information from burial records. Includes details of the victims of a massacre at Baramulla convent by Afghan insurgents.
* Hewson, Eileen
''Guwahati War Cemetery, Assam India''.
Wem: Kabristan Archives, 2007
In addition to transcripts of 500 memorials, this includes information extracted from written records and surveys of those who died on the Indian-Burma border during World War 2. There are some biographical details of the deceased.
This book together with Hewson's ''Assam and North-East India'' and ''Digboi War Cemetery'' provides a complete record of all memorials to be found in the graveyards of Assam and North-East India.
* Hewson, Eileen
''Himalayan headstones from Ladakh Kashmir''. London: BACSA, 2002
* Irving, Miles
''Soldiers of the Raj'' / , compiled by Miles Irving and George William De Rhé-Philipe. Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2002
Inscriptions from graves and monuments of some 1100 soldiers, mostly officers, together with additional biographical notes. Originally published as volume 2 of the Indian Monumental Inscription Series, this covers the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan.
* LaBouchardiere, Basil
This cemetery was cleared in 1977 and a complete record made of all inscriptions. The 28 page booklet contains eight illustrations and four maps/plans.
* ''The Malabar Coast : the burial registers of St Thomas' Church, Quilon and Christ Church, Trivandrum'' / , edited by Peter de Jong. London: BACSA, 1992
The burial registers of St Thomas' Church, Quilon (1829-1961) and Christ Church, Trivandrum (1863-1961)
* ''Munnar, Kerala, India : burials 1894-1959'' / , edited by Theon Wilkinson. London: BACSA, 1990
A slim volume containing a typescript of the burial register. With six illustrations.
* Radford, John
''Tombs in tea : tea garden cemeteries in Sylhet, Bangladesh'' / , by John Radford and Susan Farrington. London: BACSA, 2001
Covers the tea areas in the valleys of Luskerpore, Balisera, Manu/ Doloi, Lungla and Juri; also the oldest cemetery in Sylhet town. With 45 illustrations, maps and plans.
* Roberts, John Cantwell and Chekkutty N.P.
''Malabar Christian Memorials at Cannanore, Tellicherry and Mahe 1723-1990'' London : British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 2013. ISBN 978 0 907799 93 1 Physical details: xiii, 258 pages : illustrations. Includes list of regiments stationed at Cannanore. Contains details on the Portuguese, Dutch, French and English gravestones in the region. The authors have photographed church records, cemetery markers and memorials which still exist. These vary in coverage- one parish priest burnt records in the 1960s!. Other sources were previously published books such as JJ Cotton’s 1905 List of European and Christian Tombs in the Malabar District, research in the British Library , records of ANOM, the French Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer, in addition to information held by a local historian. Records are listed alphabetically within cemeteries which makes it easier tracing family groups. However for the general reader, a sense of the historic nature of the burials is lost. Note: only available from South India Research Associates (SIRA), Calicut, which is engaged in the retrieval of European records and monumental inscriptions in South India. * ''Ranchi, Bihar : burials'' / , edited by Vincent Davies. London: BACSA, 1987
A typescript of the Burial Register covering 1894-1959.
* ''South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta''. 4th ed. Calcutta: APHCI ; London: BACSA, 2006
A register of the graves and standing tombs from 1767.
* Volkers, Robin
A record of over 5,000 burials from 1806-1990s, including all existing monumental inscriptions, with plot diagrams indicating the shape and location of the tombs.
* Yalland, Zoe
Comprehensive list of the epitaphs at Kacheri Cemetery.
* Beavington, Ed
''Seremban (Malaysia) graves in St Mark's Churchyard, and the Anglican section of the Seremban Cemetery'' / , by Ed Beavington and Justin Corfield. London: BACSA, 2000
Headstone inscriptions.
* Corfield, Justin
Monumental inscriptions and a complete transcript of the Burial Register from 1861-1972 together with background information. Also covers ten other cemeteries in Bangkok. Thirty illustrations.
* Corfield, Justin
Distributed in the United Kingdom by BACSA.
* Corfield, Justin
Includes 27 illustrations plus plans.
* Corfield, Justin
Monumental inscriptions including those relating to deaths in World War II. With 70 illustrations and plans.
* Corfield, Justin
Contains 23 illustrations and a plan.
* Corfield, Justin
Contains five illustrations.
* Corfield, Justin
Distributed by BACSA in the United Kingdom.
* Corfield, Justin
Cover title reads: "Penang, Malaysia : graves of Europeans in the Protestant section of the Western Road Cemetery". With 27 illustrations and a plan.
* Corfield, Justin
Includes 14 illustrations and a plan.
* Harfield, Alan
From the Portuguese time in 1511, through the Dutch occupation 1641-1795 and from 1819-25 to the British period. Includes a short history with lists of churches and monumental inscriptions; also an account of the local wars with lists of casualties in the Malayan Emergency.
* Harfield, Alan
British graves in Sumatra between 1685 and 1825. Includes 35 illustrations and four maps/plans.
* Harfield, Alan
A comprehensive record of all main cemeteries.
* Harfield, Alan
''Penang and Perak : Christian cemeteries''. BACSA, 1987
* Wood, Richard
''De Mortuis : the story of the Chiang Mai Foreign Cemetery''. Chiang Mai: Hudson Enterprises, 1992
Monumental inscriptions and notesrelating to this cemetery in northern Thailand. Distributed in the United Kingdom by BACSA.
Illustrations with biographical notes of over 4,000 graves from 1854 - the dead of 41 nations rest here - with the inscriptions capturing much of the history of Japan over the last 140 years. Over 100 illustrations and a map.
* Hewson, Eileen* ''The Forgotten Irish : memorials of the Raj'', compiled by Eileen Hewson.
Wem: Kabristan Archives, 2004
* Hewson, Eileen''A Handbook for Irish war graves in India, Burma and beyond'', compiled by Eileen Hewson.
Wem: Kabristan Archives, 2005
* Hewson, Eileen
''Moravian graveyards in India and Jamaica, 1755-1971''. Wem: Kabristan Archives, 2007
Transcripts of memorials to Moravian missionaries who travelled from Herrnhut in Germany and settled in the remote Himalayan areas of Ladakh and Lahoul. The inscriptions for colleagues who went to Jamaica to establish schools and clinics for the slaves on that island are also included.
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