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===Historical books online===
*''Narrative of the Life of a Gentleman Long Resident in India'' by G F Grand. [https://archive.org/details/narrativelifeag00grangoog/page/n6/mode/2up 1814 edition], [https://archive.org/details/narrativeoflifeo00graniala/page/n5/mode/2up 1910 edition] edited , with Notes, for the Calcutta Historical Society by Walter K Firminger. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buck/page/174/mode/1up "Grand, George Francois (1748?-1821)"] page 174 ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' by C E Buckland (Indian Civil Service, retired) 1906 Archive.org. Includes 1782 Collector of Tirhut and promoted the indigo manufacture in Bihar to his own advantage;1788 appointed Judge and Magistrate at Patna, and eventually dismissed.
*[https://archive.org/stream/residencechinese00fort#page/440/mode/2up "List of Members of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India at 31 December 1854"] Contain a number of indigo planters and their location. Archive.org. (This list is located at the back of the book file for [https://archive.org/details/residencechinese00fort ''A residence among the Chinese
inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856''] by Robert Fortune 1857 Archive.org)
**Also see [[Scientific books online]] for other edition of the ''Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India'' which may contain earlier membership lists
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924024077806#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of Behar Indigo Factories ; Reminiscences of Behar ; Tirhoot and its inhabitants of the past ; History of Behar Light Horse Volunteers''] by Minden Wilson 1908 Archive.org
*''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce and industrial resources'' by Somerset Playne and J W Bond 1917 on the Archive.org website has a chapter on [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/254/mode/2up "Indigo in Behar"] and [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/268/mode/2up "The Behar Planters Association, Ltd"]
*[https://archive.org/details/ignorantinindia00vernrich ''An Ignorant in India''] by R E Venede 1911 Archive.org The author was visiting a friend his brother<ref>[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n14/mode/1up Page ix] ''Letters to his Wife'' by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org</ref> who was a Collector in an indigo region in Bengal.
===Other===
*[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/287838?rpp=20&pg=1&rndkey=20140214&ao=on&ft=*&who=Captain+R.+.+Hill&pos=16 Photograph: Indigo Vats] 1850s by Captain R. B. Hill Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853.
*[https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_indigo.html Digital Archive of Documents Related to Indigo] cs.arizona.edu
*[http://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol17_1_6_HCBhardwaj.pdf "Indian Dyes and Dyeing Industry during 18th-19th Century"] by H C Bhardwaj and Kamal K Jain ''Indian Journal of History of Science'' 17(1) 1982 pages 70-81. Includes information about indigo.
*An ''India List'' post<ref>Murphy, Sylvia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200507041342/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1315404/ Mokarrarie] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 25 September 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2018, archived.</ref> advises that the word 'mookarrarie' which appears in ''History of Behar Indigo Factories'' means 'a permanent tenure'.
*[https://www.sites.google.com/site/bihargatha/early-agriculture-based-enterprenureships/sugar-concerns Early Sugar Industry of Bihar]. sites.google.com. Some indigo plantations also grew sugar cane.
