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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NiFcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''East India: Indigo Commission''] ''Volume 11, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons Session 5 February-6 August 1861'' Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q5ZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Minute by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal [Sir J.P. Grant<nowiki>]</nowiki> on the Report of the Indigo Commission ... of 1860''] 1861 Google Books. Possibly may be included in the previous Parliamentary Papers.
*''An Essay on the culture and manufacture of Indigo, ... With a Hindoostani translation'' by John Shortt M.D. Madras, 1862. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100026711567.0x000001 British Library digital edition]. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TyRkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Google Books] based on same digital file.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=4GhKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA114 “Letter VIII: Mulnath Indigo Factory”] from ''Rural life in Bengal: illustrative of Anglo-Indian suburban life, the habits of the rural classes, the varied produce of the soil and seasons, and the culture and manufacture of indigo : letters from an artist in India to his sisters in England'' by Colesworthey Grant 1866 illustrated with one hundred and sixty six engravings.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878 and commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n429/mode/2up page 369] 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 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.
*''Indigo Manufacture in Madras : Volume IV''. The Agricultural Department, Madras; Bulletin No. 74. Madras : The Superintendent, Government Press. No date is catalogued. [http://117.239.65.2:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/629 Directorate of Public Libraries] possibly at Chennai (Madras) - link to a pdf download. [https://archive.org/details/aclcpl00000718 Archive.org, Torrent download only].
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*[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.
