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*''Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India'' by James Forbes Google Books. 1813 edition, in four volumes, with illustrations. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q8hcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pY55WvIWnjsC&pg=PR3 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Vfz_fkzFNsoC&pg=PR3 Volume III], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Unr6Ub388d0C&pg=PR3 Volume IV]. 2nd edition 1834, revised by his daughter [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=r2IOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rlkOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II], with 1835 edition [http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2777/show/2697 ''Illustrations to Oriental Memoirs''] Digital Library of Houston University. The author arrived in Bombay in 1766, aged 16 to work as a writer.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32669/2015.32669.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol29#page/n139/mode/2up "A Young Civilian in Bengal in 1805"] by Isaac Henry Townley Roberdeau, appointed Writer 29th August 1799, page 110, ''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'', Jan-June 1925. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. He was appointed to [[Mymensingh]] where he died 1808.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500675/2015.500675.Bengal-Past#page/n189/mode/2up "Extracts from the Diary of Emily, wife of John Talbot Shakespear, Bengal Civil Service" [June- July 1814<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 133 ''Bengal, Past and Present'', Volume VI, July-September 1910. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*''Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty Years in the East With Revelations of Life in the Zenana'' by Fanny Parkes [Parks] (sometimes seen as Fanny Parkes Parlby). [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg01parluoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg02parluoft Volume II] 1850 Archive.org. She came to India in 1822 with her husband Charles Crawford Parks, a civil servant, appointed a Writer in 1816. [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview35 "Lady of the Raj"] by William Dalrymple 10 June 2007 ''The Guardian''. [http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/fanny-parks-case-study/ "Fanny Parks (1794-1875): her ‘Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan’, her Museum, and her Cabinet of Curiosities"] by Joanna Goldsworthy. Case study from ''East India Company At Home, 1757-1857''.
*[http://archive.org/stream/fiftysevensomeac00keenrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts during the Revolt of the Bengal Army''] by Henry George Keene 1883 Archive.org
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