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*[http://www.kabristan.org.uk/sri-lankan-genealogy Kabristan Archives-Ireland- Ceylon- India Genealogy] Includes a Search, with a partial transcription of records. In addition to baptismal, marriage and burial records, there is a database ''Ceylon Roll Of Honour World War 1 1914-18'' (in two parts), sourced from ''The Ceylon roll of honour and record of service in the Great War 1914-1918'', published c 1919.
*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers.
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== Records ==
*Except for the few short years when the East India Company was in control (1796-1802) records for Ceylon will not be found in the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]], but at [[The National Archives]] at Kew. For example, the description .**Description and succession books of the Ceylon Rifles covering years 1809-1872 are held under reference W025/638-641 (these include officers services) and reference Free digital download at March 2021.**Reference WO23/158 includes the admission books for the Ceylon Rifles and Gun Lascars for the period May 1868-Sept 1876. **Personal data may also be held amongst the National Archive's Administrative Records of [[Ceylon]] (Sri Lanka).
:Records for 1796-1802 perhaps may be located in Madras records. As an example, there is one marriage record for 1798 at Colombo on page 102, ''Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras'' by F. E. P., (very likely Fanny Emily Penny), published 1907, see [[Madras (City)]].
*''The Ceylon Civil List''. The title of some editions includes the wording ''showing the names and designations of the civil, military and other servants of government ...''. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000649015 where the catalogue record states "... 1863 (1870-1876, 1878, 1879, 1881 [etc.]). Prepared in the Colonial Secretary's Office. Imperfect; wanting the issues for 1864-1869, 1877, 1880. Not published in 1938, when its place was taken by “Civil Establishments,” pt. 1." Also available at the Library of Oxford University, where the holding, over 2 catalogue entries, is 1899-1948, but missing 1901; 1952-1962. (Examples of information available.<ref>[https://defonseka.com/front-page/reference/the-ceylon-civil-list/ "The Ceylon Civil List"] defonseka.com. [http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/scrapbooks/5A15.pdf "Ceylon Civil List with Record of Service for Reginald Tyler"] by Kathleen Townsend astro.wisc.edu</ref>)
===Online and other databases===
====Findmypast/Kabristan Archives====
Findmypast contains the database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-in-ceylon-parish-records?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 "British In Ceylon Parish Records"] located in Life Events (BMDs)/Parish Registers, consisting of records "collected and transcribed by the Kabristan Archives". Mainly these appear to be index records only. Currently (20202023/0504/1615) within these records there are five sub databases: Colombo Burials;
Colombo General Cemetery Anglican Burial Register 1909-1919;
Colombo Kanatte Cemetery War Dead; Miscellaneous Births Marriages Burials; St Pauls Baptisms 1877-1901 [probably (from the Kabristan website this is St Paul's Kandy]). The details provided varies - The last category, St Paul's is quite detailed but some of the other categories provide dates only.
See the Kabristan Archives, [[Ceylon#External links|External links]], below. Search on the Kabristan Archives website for free, for baptismal, marriage and burial records, and pay to obtain full details. If you want more details for a record you have found on Findmypast, it is '''possible''' that you may be able to obtain more details, by either purchasing a Kabristan Archives publication, or with a payment for a specific record.
==Online newspapers==
*See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories - South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922]] for details of a Readex subscription website which includes ''Ceylon Observer'' Colombo 1864-1922. This database is available at the [[British Library]] and is available on their home computers for individuals who are holders of a British Library Reader's pass.
* ''The London and China Express'', published in London, with target readership those outside the Indian Empire, including Ceylon, is available on [[Findmypast]], category "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#London and China Express|Newspapers and journals online]].
==Churches and cemeteries==
'''Other'''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon] Wikipedia
*[http://www.kabristan.org.uk/sri-lankan-genealogy Kabristan Archives-Ireland- Ceylon- India Genealogy] Includes a Search, with a partial transcription of records. In addition to baptismal, marriage and burial records, there is a database ''Ceylon Roll Of Honour World War 1 1914-18'' (in two parts), with (two) Index of names [https://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes/sri-lanka-indexes/183-ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-1-a-k A-K], [https://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes/sri-lanka-indexes/184-ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-2-l-z L-Z], sourced from ''The Ceylon roll of honour and record of service in the Great War 1914-1918'', published c 1919. See Records above for more comments.
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/ The Virtual Library of Sri Lanka] lankalibrary.com, has a section "History", which in turn has a section "Colonial History, The British in Lanka (1796-1948)"
*[http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/tracingasianroots/ceylon.htm Administrative Records of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] - movinghere.org
*[http://www.rgdeptrgd.gov.lk/civilweb/Obtainingindex.aspx php/en/ Registrar General’s Department, Colombo]. Registration of births, marriages and deaths from 1867. Retrieved 15 September 2014*[httphttps://www.cbg.nl/index.php/EN?taal=EN Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG)] The Hague, The Netherlands. Retrieved 15 September 2014Dutch language website. For an English language version, use [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate]. See Records above, for comments about this organisation.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160528193352/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/ Sri Lanka Genealogy Website], rootsweb, archived version at 28 May 2016. To navigate the internal links in the Menu, depending on your browser, you may need to click on "Open Link in New Window". Possibly there may be a current rootsweb website with a different URL.
*[http://www.genealogysrilanka.com/ Genealogy Sri Lanka]. Retrieved 16 September 2014
* Kyle Joustra’s [http://www.ceylondatabase.net/Genealogygenealogy.html International Ceylon Database], includes [http://www.ceylondatabase.net/military.html Military], with regiments and names
*[http://thedutchburgherunion.org Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon] - Website contains much information including journals containing various family history. [http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_31_40/JDBU%20Vol%2040%20No%202%20-%201950(1).pdf Example: Genealogy of the Family of Andree of Ceylon] Volume 40, No 2 April 1950.
*[http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea] Includes information about tea plantations. Also includes the category Publications & Articles which consists of many online publications, refer below, including ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range).
*[https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14604 Early tea cultivation in India and Sri Lanka] Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections. Includes images.
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/030223/plus/10.html "Rubber, rain and rat snakes"] by Michael Speer c 2003 sundaytimes.lk The author was born in Ceylon in 1938 and after the war, from 1946, his father managed rubber plantations, as a PD (periadurai or "big master") until the family left in 1959.
*Photographs: [http://www.imagesofceylon.com/cover.htm Images of Ceylon]
*[http://www.wolvendaal.org/churches-monuments/wolvendaal-church-colombo The Wolvendaal Church, Colombo]. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/041128/funday/2.html "The country’s oldest Christian church" [and other churches in Ceylon<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Gaveshaka. ''The Sunday Times Newspaper'' in Sri Lanka. Sunday 28 November 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915133504/http://amazinglanka.com/wp/garrison-cemetery/ "British Garrison Cemetery of Kandy"] October 18, 2013 amazinglanka.com, archived. With images. If text does not display, reload the page. Retrieved 16 September 2014*[http://www.libceylonmedals.com/ceylon_medal.htm The Ceylon Medal 1818] from [http://www.ceylonmedals.com/outline.htm Orders, Decorations and Medals Relating to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from 1795] ceylonmedals.com*[https://www.mq.edu.au/digitalmacquarie-archive/under/researchintro.html Under a Tropical Sun] (Macquarie University) covers 1796-1821. Includes the historical background and contemporary accounts of the Officers of the [[73rd Regiment of Foot]] (and their families) in Ceylon 1814-21.
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mossvalley/mv4/95th-ceylon.html The 95th Regiment In Ceylon] 1838-1847 “Moss Valley”. Retrieved 28 August 2014
*Volunteer Corps
***[https://www.scribd.com/doc/28253510/The-Ceylon-Planters-Rifle-Corps-Commanding-Officers The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps – Roll of Commanding Officers and Adjutants]. Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI scribd.com
***[http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15701762 "Tea Leaves." Ceylon Planters Corps]. ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' 6 September 1916 trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 16 September 2014
***Ceylon Planter's Rifle Corps Correspondence on OHMS Postcards by Kathryn Johnson [httphttps://docsweb.googlearchive.comorg/web/20160328014847/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectorsclubchicago.org%2Fpdf-doc%2Fceylon-planters-rifle-corps.pdf html version], [http://www.collectorsclubchicago.org/pdf-doc/ceylon-planters-rifle-corps.pdf pdf"Ceylon Planter's Rifle Corps Correspondence on OHMS Postcards"] .by Kathryn Johnson collectorsclubchicago.org, archived. Retrieved 16 September 2014
**[https://www.scribd.com/doc/28892357/Brief-History-of-the-Ceylon-Mounted-Rifles Brief History of the Ceylon Mounted Rifles] Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI scribd.com
***[https://www.scribd.com/document/47347072/Ceylon-Mounted-Infantry-Ceylon-Mounted-Rifles Ceylon Mounted Infantry -Ceylon Mounted Rifles] Xmas Number of the ''Times Of Ceylon'', 1906. "C.M.I. - C.M.R. 1892. 1906" (by the officer Commanding Ceylon Mounted Rifles) scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/document/91913151/Ceylon-Defence-Force-Urugasmanhandiya-Annual-Camp Ceylon Defence Force Urugasmanhandiya Annual Camp] compiled by Brigadier AER Abeyesinghe. A Description of the Annual Camp Venue at Urugasmanhandiya [better known as 'Urugas'] and the Governor’s address at the first camp 1890 – 1902 (From the ''History of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery formerly Ceylon Artillery Volunteers'' published 1927 with a List of Members, and available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01000649204 . There is a reference to a further edition by V Wijeyesekera, published Colombo, Times of Ceylon Press Ltd, 1952 with history to 1952.) The Annual Camp site was subsequently moved to Diyatalawa, see below.
**[https://www.scribd.com/user/6429333/Anton-Edema Further documents by Anton Edema on scribd.com].
**[http://www.ceylonmedals.com/project_2.htm Decorations and Medals for Long Service in the Volunteer Force of Ceylon] ceylonmedals.com
**[http://www.angloboerwar.com/indian-units/1990-ceylon-mounted-infantry Ceylon Mounted Infantry in the Boer War] AngloBoerWar.com
*Boer Prisoners of War. Also see [[POW Camps in India|POW Camps in India-Boer War]].
***Articles from the ''Journal of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon'': "The Boers At Diyatalawa" by E. H. Van Der Wall Volume XVIII January 1929 No 3. "The Boer Prisoner-Of-War In Ceylon (1900 – 1902)" by R. L. Brohier in Five Parts. Volume XXXVI July 1946 No 1 to Volume XXXVIII July 1947 No 1. The last Part includes a list of deaths. "Addendum.The Boer Prisoners Of War In Ceylon" by L.G. Poulier. List of Boer War Prisoners who died in Ceylon received from the Anglo Boer War Museum
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=85&sid=3ba2b45b2204fd1fd9352f5813c23bd1 HMS Highflyer [Royal Air Force and Royal Navy In Ceylon c 1943<nowiki>]</nowiki>] lankalibrary.com.
*[https://www.rmindianoceanww2.co.uk/index.htm Royal Marines in the Indian Ocean]. A subset of the website ''Burma Campaign''. This web site presents histories of Royal Marines units that served on islands in the Indian Ocean, in Ceylon, India, Burma and South-East Asia during World War 2. Few Royal Marines came face-to-face with the Japanese in combat but they played a vital role in constructing and defending bases important to the success of the campaign in Burma.
*1941-1945 Eastern Travels, Parts 1-9 by Cecil John Callis, [[Royal Corps of Signals]]. in India and Ceylon. WW2People’s War. The author's posting to Ceylon is covered in [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a4427985.shtml Part 3], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a4428038.shtml Part 4], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a4428083.shtml Part 5], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/73/a4428173.shtml Part 6].
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/499443.html A tale of two Mutinies: The Indian Ocean 1942] by Harry Fecitt from Harry’s Sideshows. Includes the mutiny by a detachment of No 1 Coast Regiment of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island, one of the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
*[http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/12569 A review of the National Archives of Sri Lanka] by Nadeera Rupesinghe, PhD Candidate, Institute of History, Leiden University, posted January 4, 2016. dissertationreviews.org
*[http://www.dlir.org/fdasl-home.html The Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka] from [http://www.dlir.org Digital Library for International Research]. These collections primarily consist of furniture from the Portuguese, Dutch and British Periods (17th to 19th centuries). Images and essays, including "Woods Used in Sri Lanka Furniture".
*[https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33723/1/11010495.pdf ''The Development of the Ceylon Civil Service 1802-1833''] by Premasiri Dharmapriya Kannangara PhD Thesis University of London, December 1964. eprints.soas.ac.uk
===Historical photographs and images online===
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-FISHER-00001/4 Fisher Volume I : Outward journey and Ceylon October-December 1907] Classmark: Fisher 1
**[https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-03022-C-E/146 Photographs of India (Y3022C-E)] Classmark: Y3022C-E . A collection of photographs by Samuel Bourne, Bourne and Shepherd, and Charles Shepherd. Images 146-155 were taken in Ceylon c 1871, or earlier.
*''One hundred best views of Ceylon from photographs taken by the publishers'' Plâté (Plate) & Co, Colombo. c 1900 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.26422468 Jstor.org version]-to read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images, download possible; [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalogsources/uva_library/items/u1307861 University of Virginia version] same digital file, scroll down to "Download PDF".
===Historical books online===
*[httphttps://220archive.247org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70788/page/n171/mode/2up "Books on Ceylon"] [a Bibliography] by Biblio page 159, ''Volume VI, Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register'' January 1921 Archive.247org.85*[https:8081 //diglib.natlib.lk/home National Digital Library Sri Lanka] including [httphttps://220.247diglib.247natlib.85:8081lk/handlecommunities/123456789/898 86a43aa6-efe4-4e85-9190-a97b94cba751 ''Ceylon Government Gazettes''] from 1889 to 1912 (as at 20192023/0604), but only some publication may be available for any given year. The website contains a Search, then relevant editions may be downloaded as a pdf. Some In the past some other publications require required prior registration, and then a pdf must had to be requested, but it is unclear if this still applies, but the ''Gazettes'' appear to be available without prior registration.
*''Ceylon Calendar'', published 1814-1830 was followed by ''Ceylon Almanac and Compendium of Useful Information'', published 1833-1839 and 1844-1850. Continued as ''Ceylon Calendar and Compendium of Useful Information'' 1840-1843 and ''Ceylon Almanac and Annual Register'' 1851-1862.
:Available on Archive.org [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Almanac%29+AND+title%3A%28Ceylon+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Almanac''] and [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Calendar%29+AND+title%3A%28Ceylon+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Calendar''], (together) a broken range '''1818 to 1868''', and includes most editions following.:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00991433a?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 '''1818'''] includes [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00991433a?urlappend=%3Bseq=259 page 217, MBD for 1817] Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/b28742680 '''1827'''] Archive.org, [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b28742680 1827] wellcomelibrary.org with rotatable pages; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914348?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 '''1829'''] includes [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914348?urlappend=%3Bseq=316 page 264, MBD in 1828] HathiTrust; [https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=2H8w57Ra1VcC&pg=PT4 '''1830'''] Google Books; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102333835 '''1834''' and '''1835'''] Hathi Trust; [https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=oGk9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 '''1836'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnybq7?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1836] HathiTrust; [https://books.google.com/books?id=BIbYsr345xAC&pg=PP5 '''1837'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822043012707?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 1837] HathiTrust; [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-24678246/view?partId=nla.obj-24738158#page/n2/mode/1up '''1839'''] Scroll to [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-24678246/view?partId=nla.obj-24744009#page/n47/mode/1up digital page 48] for The Companion” which contains the Civil List etc. nla.gov.au; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GFFJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 '''1847'''] Poor quality print. Google Books; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MenJ_aEHy20C&pg=PA1 '''1855'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914372?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1855] HathiTrust; [https://www.scribd.com/document/331196165/Ceylon-Almanac-And-Annual-register-1856-William-Skeen-Government-Printer-Colombo-Ceylon '''1856'''] scribd.com, [https://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/other-publications/ 1856] Scroll to listing and downloadread online. historyofceylontea.com.
:The [[British Library]] holds similar publications under various titles such as ''Ceylon Calendar'' and ''Ceylon Almanac'' from 1814 to 1862 (broken range), see UIN: BLL01002830047 . In the past there was a microfiche series from Brill (IDC Publishers), I-900/2 (132 microfiche) which perhaps may still be available at some libraries.
*''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from '''1871 to 1999''' (broken range) and other online publications are available on [http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea], accessible from the Home Page, category Publications & Articles.
*[https://archive.org/details/thackers-med-directory-1915/page/n9/mode/2up ''Thacker's Medical Directory of India, Burma, and Ceylon 1915. Third year of publication''] Archive.org. Also includes a list of Nurses and Midwives.:In the late 1930s, the full title of ''Thacker's Indian Directory'' was''Thacker's Indian Directory including Burma and Ceylon'', and included information about Ceylon.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109427/page/n13/mode/2up '''1937-1938'''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109427/page/n15/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95891/page/n13/mode/2up '''1937-1938''', 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83751/page/n13/mode/2up '''1938-1939'''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83751/page/n15/mode/2up Contents] All Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ceylonportuguese00pier ''Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658''] by P E Pieris, Ceylon Civil Service 1920 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA44 "Ceylon"] page 54 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b28774723_0001#page/182/mode/2up "Ceylon"] page 183 ''The View of Hindoostan. Volume I Western Hindoostan'' by Thomas Pennant 1798 Archive.org.
*''An account of the Island of Ceylon : containing its history, geography, natural history, with the manners and customs of its various inhabitants; to which is added, the journal of an embassy to the court of Candy'' by Robert Percival of HM 19th Regiment of Foot. [https://archive.org/details/accountislandce00perc/page/n1/mode/2up 1st edition 1803]; [https://archive.org/details/accountofislando00perc/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd edition 1805] ''with an Appendix containing some Particulars of the recent Hostilities with the King of Candy''. Author is described of H M 18th or Royal Irish Regiment. Archive.org
*''A description of Ceylon, containing an account of the country, inhabitants, and natural productions: with narratives of a tour round the island in 1800, the campaign in Candy in 1803, and a journey to Ramisseram in 1804. Illustrated by twenty-five engravings from original drawings'' by Rev James Cordiner, late Chaplain to the Garrison of Columbo. 1807 Google Books. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=I0g7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4Uc7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] The author was in Ceylon 1799-1804
:There are chapters on Ceylon from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA139 page 139] ''A Voyage To India'' by Rev James Cordiner 1820 Google Books The author was in Ceylon 1799-1804.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j9ENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Its Present Condition''] by William Knighton 1845 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/historyceylonfr01kniggoog Archive.org version]
:''Forest Life in Ceylon'' by W Knighton, formerly Secretary to the Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 1854 [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl01knig Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl02knig Volume II]. This work has been described as a novel, (but somewhat against this view see further comments.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzVCfoQorHwC&pg=PA144 Page 144] ''Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden'' by Sharae Deckard 2009 Google Books</ref>) [http://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/198.html William Knighton], biographical details, djo.org.uk
*''Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'': [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Ceylon%20Asiatic%20Society Archive.org] Multiple volumes from Volume 1 1845. [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000638474 Hathi TrustHathiTrust] multiple volumes including '''restricted access''', some of which, to c 19231926, are probably available to those in North America.:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Ceylon+antiquary+and+literary+register+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register''] multiple volumes from Volume III 1917 to Vol. X 1924. Archive.org. Includes a section "Notes and Queries". [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100732322 HathiTrust editions], restricted to some areas such as North America.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HAM3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP11 ''The History of the Rebellion in Ceylon During Lord Torrington's Government: Affording a Comparison with Jamaica and Governor Eyre''] by Captain John MacDonald Henderson (late 78th Highlanders.) 1868 Google Books. The rebellion of 1848.
*''An historical, political, and statistical account of Ceylon and its dependencies'' by Charles Pridham 1849 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BaVHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR2 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-aZHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA483 Volume II]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DEFYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''98° versus 130°, or, the Infantry Soldier in the Tropics''] by Jones Lamprey Assistant Surgeon, H M’s 15th Regiment. 1852 Google Books. [Remarks on the dress worn by the army in Ceylon].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YJdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Ceylon, Past and Present''] by Sir George Barrow 1857 Google Books.
*''Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical, with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions'' by Sir James Emerson Tennent 4th edition, thoroughly revised 1860 [https://archive.org/details/ceylonaccountofi01tenn Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/ceylonaccountofi02tenn Volume II] Volume II includes [https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/222/mode/2up "Gampola and the Coffee Regions"] page 222 and [https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/n261/mode/1up Map of Coffee Estates] , between pages 234-235 which requires strong magnification. Archive.org. Additional versions version of the same map [http://dfgdigital.staatsbibliothek-viewerberlin.de/showwerkansicht/?tx_dlf%5Bid%5DPPN=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de%2Fitems%2FOU3XZDEXKDCEQK5BRSGHQSDAXEEOVKCN%2FsourcePPN669705136&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5DDMDID=DMDLOG_0016 Staatsbibliothek Berlin], select digital page [257&tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&cHash=6f7d2008dc9ab7311e5a14ac69f24de9 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek]and enlarge.:[https://archive.org/details/sketchesofnatur00tenn/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon : with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, etc. including a monograph of the elephant ...''] by Sir J Emerson Tennent 1861. [httphttps://digitalarchive.org/details/dli.staatsbibliothek-berlinministry.de27094/page/n3/werkansichtmode/?PPN=PPN669705136&DMDID=DMDLOG_0016 Staatsbibliothek Berlin2up 2nd file, with images correctly rotated]. Both Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JQZXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 ''A Brief Account of Ceylon''] by L. F. Liesching [Louis], Ceylon Civil Service 1861 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ogVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR6-IA1#v=twopage ''The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon''] by Sir J Emerson Tennent 1867 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/calcuttareviewv01unkngoog#page/n188/mode/2up "The Eurasians of Ceylon"] ''Calcutta Review Volume 63, 1876'', page 173 Archive.org
*Inscriptions
**[https://www.familysearcharchive.org/searchdetails/lapidarium-zeylanicum/1LapidariumZeylanicum/filmpage/004541908 1/mode/2up ''Lapidarium Zeylanicum : being a Collection of Monumental Inscriptions of the Dutch Churches and Churchyards of Ceylon''] by Leopold Ludovici, published 1877Archive. Digitised FamilySearch microfilm, navigate to item 2, images 126-228org. You must be signed in to [[FamilySearch]] to view. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/339757 FamilySearch catalogue entry] which also includes an additional version. Article [http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_11_20/JDBU%20Vol%2018%20No%202%20-%201928%281%29.pdf "Leopold Ludovici"] by J R T. ''Journal of The Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Volume 18, Part 2, October 1928 pages 79-85 (scroll down). He was variously, a surveyor, journalist and newspaper editor.
**Comments regarding two deaths by J P L: [https://archive.org/details/s9notesqueries11londuoft/page/372/mode/2up Page 372 (scroll to bottom of page) and page 373] ''Notes And Queries A Medium of Intercommunication'', Series 9, Volume 11, January-June 1903. Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007648516#page/n7/mode/2up ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated''] by J Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org. Note the records from this book have been transcribed to a FIBIS database, refer above.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.17644/page/ii/mode/2up ''Ceylon Past and Present''] by Major C. M. Enriquez. c 1927 (not 1812, as catalogued) Archive.org, mirror from Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
*[https://archive.org/details/romanticceylonit00rhba/page/n9 ''Romantic Ceylon: Its History, Legend And Story''] by R. H. Bassett. Reprint edition, first published 1929, 2nd edition 1934. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Ceylon, page 176 ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition'' HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/realceylon0000elli/page/n9 ''The Real Ceylon''] by C. Brooke Elliott. Reprint edition, first published 1938. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_31_40/JDBU%20Vol%2031%20No%204%20-%201942%281%29.pdf "Periodicals and Newspapers in Ceylon"] ''Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Volume XXXI No 4 April 1942, page 137-152. thedutchburgherunion.org.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100190 ''Ceylon : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names''] U.S. Office of Geography, 1960. FamilySearch Digital Library. You need to be signed in to FS to view this book, see [[FamilySearch]].
*[https://archive.org/details/martiallawinindi0000mina ''Martial Law in India, Pakistan and Ceylon''] by Joseph Minattur 1962. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''A History of the Ceylon Police Volume II (1866-1913)'' by A.C. Dep 1969. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.26422464 Jstor.org version] South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/booksuva_library/items/u424072 University of Virginia version], scroll down to "Download PDF". [https://archive.org/details/history-ceylon-police-v2/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
:''A History of the Ceylon Police Vol.1. 1795-1870'' by G.K. Pippet 1938 is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01004088800
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' . Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 First published 1862: First publication]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879]; See [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Phg5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1880, Google Books], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b587083?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1880, HT] with rotatable pages; [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 1889]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1925 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]: In addition, ''Directories online#Colonial Office List, 1863'' and ''|Directories online - Colonial Office List, 1870'' are available in the [[findmypast]] (pay website) dataset for a broken range 1862-1920s.*Article: [httpshttp://searchwww.findmypastsundayobserver.co.uklk/2017/10/15/search-world-Recordsfocus/britainceylon-directoriesblue-and-almanacs books "Britain, Directories & AlmanacsThe Ceylon Blue Books"] located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacsby Dilini Liyanage 15 October 2017 sundayobserver.:FamilySearch has a [https://wwwlk.familysearchGives details of the contents which can be expected.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for Note there was a series of microfiches of the separate ''Colonial Office Ceylon Civil List''from 1863, (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however it seems there was a Civil List as part of the potential ''Blue Book'' to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable1917 inclusive. The same microfiche series separate publication has not been viewed but possibly may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centreshave been more extensive.:''Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title *There are editions from 1863 of ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office Ceylon Civil List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533BLL01000649015, but missing some editions.*Article: '''[httphttps://wwwarchive.sundayobserver.lkorg/2017/10/15/focus/ceylon-blue-books "The search?query=title%3A%28%22Ceylon+Blue+Book%22%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Blue Books"Book'' at Archive.org] by Dilini Liyanage 15 October 2017 sundayobserver'''.lk. Gives details of Currently (April 2023) includes all the contents which can be expectedyearly editions mentioned below, from 1866 to 1938, broken range.
:[http://repo.statistics.gov.lk/handle/1/432 ''Ceylon Blue Book, 1916''] Pdf download Digital Library Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka.
:[https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/ceylon-blue-book-26318831/ ''The Ceylon Blue Book''] for 1866, 1868-1869, 1871, 1877 then a broken range 1896-1926. Searchable, read online or download. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. Jstor.org, South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection.
:[https://www.granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/simple-search?location=&query=&sort_by=dc.date.accessioned_dt&order=desc&rpp=20&etal=0&filtername=location&filtertype=equals&filterquery=Colombo ''Ceylon Blue Book''] for the years 1892 (catalogued 1982), 1900-1901-1902-1903-1904, 1906, 1912 Supplementary, 1913-1914-1915-1916, 1919. There are also some ''Ceylon Administration Reports''. Granth Sanjeevani, The Asiatic Society, Mumbai. Access to the digital collection requires a paid Membership Plan, unless your Library has a subscription. Mirror files for all of these editions are available for free on [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Ceylon+Blue+Book%29&sort=titleSorter Archive.org ''Ceylon Blue Book'']. Also [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Ceylon+Administration%29&sort=titleSorter Archive.org ''Ceylon Administration Reports''] broken range 1891-1919.
:''Ceylon Blue Book'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EvU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1907], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6o0tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1914], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OaMtAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1915], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=V10vAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1916], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zo4tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1917], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UXEwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1918], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=63szAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1920], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WYtQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1920, File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MXwzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP3 1921], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gotQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1921 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yfQ2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1922], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=i4xQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1922 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XIxQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1923], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qXBNKKEuxWIC&pg=PR1 1923 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VTvVeboCrLIC&pg=PA3 1924], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2ItQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1925], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=T1RLGdR3OeIC&pg=PP5 1925 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DCuAGiYUX9IC&pg=PP5 1926], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fANSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1927], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0_hRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1928], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3Q64Mn0PwdcC&pg=PP5 1929], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tyauCbBB10wC&pg=PP5 1930], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9ngfGIy0-HwC&pg=PP5 1931], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8AZSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1932], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3gJSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 1933], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwdSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1934], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gwdSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1935], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rfhRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1936], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_QJSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1937], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ywdSAQAAMAAJ 1938]. Google Books.
:[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35332 ''Ceylon Blue Book'' 1927] GIPE Digitised Books. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics - Pune, India.
:In the past there was a microfiche series from Brill, ''Ceylon Statistical Blue Books'' 1862-1938, 883 microfiche Brill (IDC Publishers) H-2323/1, which perhaps may still be available at some libraries.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=o6odAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 527 Ceylon 1906''] by Great Britain Colonial Office (1907). Internal title is "Report on the Blue Book of 1906". Google Books.
:''Colonial Reports - Annual'' for Ceylon. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155583 ''No. 396 Ceylon 1902 to No. 1507 Ceylon 1929''] for most years. HathiTrust Digital Library.
:*Two of these volumes are available on Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/colonial-reports-ceylon-1902-396/page/n1/mode/2up 1902-1908], [https://archive.org/details/colonial-reports-ceylon-1909-653/page/n1/mode/2up 1909-1917]
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Colonial+Reports+-+Annual%22%29&sort=date Archive.org editions of ''Colonial Reports - Annual'' from 1908 onwards]. Includes reports in respect of Ceylon.
*[https://archive.org/details/b3045296x/page/n3/mode/2up ''A catalogue of the indigenous and exotic plants growing in Ceylon...''] by Alexander Moon, Superintendant of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon 1824 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/acatalogueindig00moongoog/page/n3/mode/2up File 2], [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.36004/page/n3/mode/2up File 3] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/medical_used_in_ceylon_581_na_02/page/n1/mode/2up ''Medicinal Plants (Indigenous and Exotic) used in Ceylon Part 1''] by D.M.A Jayaweera, with Taxonomic updating by Lilani K Senaratna 2006. Archive.org. First published 1981-1982, in five parts. ''[http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5443 Part I], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5297 Part II], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5499 Part III], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5412 Part IV], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5441 Part V]'' Links to pdf downloads. (Contents: pt. 1. Acan... pt. 2. Cact... pt. 3. Flac... pt. 4. Magn... pt. 5. Ruta...). National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka National e-Repository.
*[https://bdeep.org/2015/vb2-sri-lanka/ ''British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B Volume 2 Sri Lanka'', in two parts] edited by K M De Silva, originally published by The Stationery Office (TSO) 1997. [https://bdeep.org bdeep.org] Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
====Personal accounts====
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsonfootth00haafgoog ''Travels on Foot through the Island of Ceylon''] [in 1783] by J. Haafner (Jacob), 1821. Translated from the Dutch. Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v5ZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Rambles in Ceylon''] by Lieut. De Butts [Augustus] 1841 Google Books. The author was in Ceylon 1836- 1839.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsgeminige01wilkgoog ''The Memoirs of the Gemini Generals; Personal Anecdotes, Sporting Adventures, and Sketches of Distinguished Officers''] by Major-Generals Osborn Wilkinson and Johnson Wilkinson. 1896 Archive.org. Twin brothers Osborn and Johnson Wilkinson were born 1822. The former joined the Bengal Cavalry in 1844, and served initially in the 10th Light Bengal Cavalry, and subsequently the 2nd Bengal Cavalry, (and perhaps other cavalry regiments); the latter HM 15th Regiment of Foot, which went to Ceylon in 1845, with a period at Poona.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0-KfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Rough Notes of a Trip to Reunion, the Mauritius and Ceylon: With Remarks on the Eligibility as Sanitaria for Indian Invalids''] by Frederic J Mouat, Bengal Medical Staff 1852 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zpZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Bungalow and the Tent, or a Visit to Ceylon''] by Edward Sullivan 1854 Google Books
*''The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon'' by Samuel W Baker [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7fsTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 1854 edition] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/riflehoundinceyl00bakerich New edition 1874] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromadamspeaktoe00carp ''From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: sketches in Ceylon and India''] by Edward Carpenter 1892 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035F58 Britsh Library Digital Collection] Images may be rotated.[https://archive.org/details/cu31924052629726 New Edition, revised 1903, reprinted 1921] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twohappyyearsinc00gord ''Two Happy Years in Ceylon''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming with [https://archive.org/stream/twohappyyearsinc00gord#page/n15/mode/2up Illustrations] New Edition 1901, first published 1892 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gunriflehoundine00snafrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Gun, Rifle, and Hound in East and West''] by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1894. Archive.org. Includes chapters on India and Ceylon. The author appears to have been in the British Army.
:[https://archive.org/details/snafflepapers00snaf/mode/2up ''The Snaffle Papers''] by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1898 Archive.org. Two chapters on Ceylon.
:[https://archive.org/details/imageofwarsporti00snaf/page/188/mode/2up "Hunting in the Indies"] (including Ceylon) page 189 ''The image of war : a sporting autobiography'' by “Snaffle” 1914 Archive.org.
:Some chapters may appear in more than one book.
*[http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsab00bringoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-Of-War at Ceylon''] by J N Brink, "late adjudant of General Crowther" 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/huntingshootingi00storrich ''Hunting & Shooting in Ceylon''] by Harry Storey 1907. Archive.org. Includes elephant shooting.
====Planters, the Planting and Other Industries====
*''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Coffee-Planter in Ceylon to his Cousin in London'' by Sampson Brown. ''Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volumes 10 and 11'' 1847. Google Books and Hathi TrustHathiTrust. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 Page 13], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA150 page 150], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA323 page 323], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA376 page 376], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 page 14], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=163 page 155], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=406 page 401]. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 under a slightly different title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Planter to his Cousin in London''] Google Books. (Print quality is poorer in the latter version). [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024456963.0x000001 British Library digital file] Same underlying file, but print may be clearer.[https://archive.org/details/life-in-the-jungle/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version of BL file].*[https://archive.org/details/jrasgbi-1846-v8/page/367/mode/2up "The Cinnamon Trade of Ceylon, its Progress and Present State"] by John Capper page 368 ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 8 1846''. Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA191 "Ceylon. Coffee Planting"] page 191 ''Supplement (No.I) to the Eight Report from the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting''. British Parliamentary Papers. Reports 1847-8. Seventeenth Volume –Part IV. Also called Volume 23, Part 4. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PR3 Index]. Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NZteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Coffee-planting in Ceylon''] by Aliquis [Stewart Jolly] 1861 Google Books. Verses
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FZkgjEehFK8C&pg=PP1 ''Coffee Culture in Ceylon. Manuring of estates ... being the essay which obtained the first prize offered by the Planters Association of Ceylon''] Arnold H. White 1875 Google Books.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/coffeeplantingin00hullrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Coffee planting in Southern India and Ceylon''] by ECP Hull 1877 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/days-of-old/page/n5/mode/2up ''Days of Old Or, The Commencement of the Coffee Enterprise in Ceylon''] by Two of the Pioneers 1878 (A M andJ Ferguson, Colombo Publishers) Archive.org. Ceylon in the 1840s.
*[https://archive.org/details/coffeeplantersma00brow ''The Coffee Planter's Manual''] by the late Alex. Brown, Kandy. Thoroughly revised with notes by Practical Planters in 1880. [2nd edition]. First published 1872. Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ef8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''The Coffee Tree and its Enemies: Being Observations on the Natural History of the Enemies of the Coffee Tree in Ceylon''] by the late John Nietner, 2nd edition, revised 1880. There are no Plates in the digital file. Google Books.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/prizeessayoncin00chrigoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''Prize Essay on Cinchona Cultivation Written for the Dikoya Planters' Association [Ceylon<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by Thomas North Christie 1883 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ceylonherplanti00unkngoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''Ceylon & Her Planting Enterprize: In Tea, Cacao, Cardamoms, Cinchona, Coconut, and Areca Palms''] Published 1885 by A.M. & J. Ferguson. Archive.org
*''Fickle Fortune in Ceylon'' by F. E. F. P[enny] 1887 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924087840850 Archive.org version]; [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035676 British Library Digital Collection] - images may be better. The author, in the book, was stated to be the wife of a tea planter, whose name is given as "Penny, Fanny Emily, (Farr), Mrs" in the National Library of India catalogue entry. [https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2342 Author: Fanny Emily Penny] (victorianresearch.org). Her works included fiction. Mrs Penny however, was married to a Chaplain of the Madras Presidency, so it appears at least some aspects of this book may be fictional.
*[https://archive.org/details/allaboutrubbergu00ferg ''All About Rubber and Gutta-Percha : the Indiarubber Planter's Manual with the latest Statistics and Information''] by J Ferguson Colombo A.M. & J. Ferguson 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924031239373'' India Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Balata: occurrence, geographical distribution, and cultivation of rubber plants; manner of obtaining and preparing the raw material, modes of working and utilizing them, and statistics of commerce''] by William T Brannt 1900 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/indiarubberworld29phil#page/224/mode/2up "Rubber Planting in Ceylon and the Malay States"] page 225 ''The India Rubber World'' April 1, 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833 ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org Ceylon, [[Malaysia|Malaya]], [[Indonesia|Java]], Sumatra
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2024706 ''Rubber-Planter's Notebook''] by Frank Braham 1911. Pdf download KrishiKosh, Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System. Full title: ''The Rubber Planter's Notebook : a handy book of reference on Para rubber planting with hints on the maintenance of health in the tropics and other general information of utility to the rubber planter : specially designed for use in the field''by Frank Braham 1911. [https://archive.org/stream/naturejournal88londuoft#page/242/mode/2up Review], page 242 ''Nature'' December 21, 1911 Archive.org*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers. A trainee planter was known as a Creeper.*''A Creeper in Ceylon'' by C V Warren [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/413/mode/2up ''Part 1''] and [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/431/mode/2up ''Part 2''] pages 413-420 and pages 431-436 ''The Wide World Magazine. Volume 62 1928-1929 November-April''. Archive.org. The author worked on tea estates.
*Online publications of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, in addition to ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range) are available on [http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea], accessible from the Home Page, category Publications & Articles.
: From the same website, under Publications and Articles /Other Publications are many miscellaneous titles, mainly relating to tea and rubber, including
::[http://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/other-publications/the-pioneers-1825-1900-the-early-british-tea-and-coffee-planters-and-their-way/quick-view/index.php ''The Pioneers 1825 - 1900 : The Early British Tea and Coffee Planters and Their Way of Life''] by John Weatherstone. 1986. historyofceylontea.com. Also available as [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3201 a pdf download, Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*''The Tropical Agriculturist And Magazine Of The Ceylon Agricultural Society''. Title varied over time: ''The Tropical Agriculturist : Journal Of The Ceylon Agricultural Society''; ''The Tropical Agriculturist : The Agricultural Journal Of Ceylon''. Volume 15 has additional title: ''A Monthly Record Of Information For Planters of Tea, Coffee, Cacao, Cinchona, Sugar, Rubber, Tobacco, Palms, Spices, Rice, And Other Products Suited For Cultivation In Tropics. :Pdf downloads KrishiKosh: Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?location=&query=%22Tropical+Agriculturist%22&rpp=100&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=ASC&etal=0&submit_search=Update Page A] and [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?query=%22Tropical+Agriculturist%22&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=asc&rpp=100&etal=0&start=100 Page B]. Editions from 1881 to 1960 (broken range). [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Tropical+Agriculturist+%29&sort=-date Archive.org editions, mainly some, but not all, mirror files from Digital Library of India]
*Other Industries
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D6QTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Account of the Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon''] by James Steuart, Master Attendant at Colombo… and formerly Inspector of Pearl Banks 1843 Google Books.
