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*[[Madras Districts]]
== External Links links ==
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V2nGnWXV7coC&pg=PA9&dq=The+history+of+British+India:+a+chronology%2Madras%2BPresidency%2B1756&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Madras Presidency 1611-1755] Google Books<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Presidency Madras Presidency] Wikipedia
====Historical books online====
Also see [[Madras (City)]]
*''Bengal and Madras papers: recounting the growth of British power in India'' edited by G W Forrest 1928. Published by Imperial Record Department, Calcutta.
:[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35331 Volume I [1670-1688<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21510 Vol. II [1688-1757<nowiki>]</nowiki>]; [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21511 Vol. III [1757-1785<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Links to pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109698/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31988/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. I, 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109699/page/n3/mode/2up Vol.II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31989/page/n5/mode/2up Vol.II, 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109700/page/n3/mode/2up Vol.III]. All Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ageographicalac00bowrgoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679''] by Thomas Bowrey, edited by Sir Richard Carnac Temple 1905 Archive.org. Includes [http://www.archive.org/stream/ageographicalac00bowrgoog#page/n22/mode/2up Madras and the Coromandel Coast]
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.92492/mode/2up ''Records of Fort St. George. James Strange’s Journal and Narrative of the Commercial Expedition From Bombay to the North-West Coast of America, together with a Chart showing the Tract of the Expedition''], with an Introduction by the Curator, Madras Records Office, published 1928. Archive.org. James Strange was in the Madras Civil Service. The journey took place August 1785 to May 1787.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284859/mode/2up ''An accurate and authentic narrative of the origin and progress of the dissentions at the Presidency of Madras: founded on original papers and correspondence''] 1810. Missing at least one page which may be found in [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00040 File 2], however generally the 1st file is better quality. Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TeYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 ''The Road Book of India; or, East Indian traveller's guide through the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay''] by John B Seely, Captain Bombay Army. 1825 Google Books. Contains many place names.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''The Madras Road Book. Edition - 1839''], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA143 Index], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OARXAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 Alphabetical List of the Madras Collectorates] with details. Google Books
*''Manuals'' of the ''Districts''
**[https://archive.org/details/manualbellarydi00kelsgoog ''Manual of the Bellary District''] by John Kelsall, Madras Civil Service, Acting Sub-Collector, North Arcot 1872. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12210 ''Manual of the District of Cuddapah in the Presidency of Madras'' ] by J D B Gribble 1875 Is available to read online Archive.org. Mirror of a file at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]].
**[http://archive.org/stream/amanualkistnadi01mackgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Manual of the Kistna District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Gordon Thomson Mackenzie 1883 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12208 ''Manual of the Kurnool District In the Presidency of Madras'' ] by Narahari Gopalakrishnamah Chetty (Comp.) 1886 Is available to read online Archive.org. Mirror of a file at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]].
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kXooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A Manual of the Nellore District in the Presidency of Madras''] by John Alexander Corrie Boswell, Collector and Magistrate of the Kistna District 1873 Google Books
**[http://archive.org/stream/manualofnlagir00grigrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''A Manual of the Nílagiri District in the Madras Presidency''] by Henry Bidewell Grigg 1880 Archive.org
**''A Manual of the Salem District in the Presidency of Madras'' by Henry Le Fanu 1883 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/amanualsalemdis00fanugoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume I: The District''], [http://archive.org/stream/amanualsalemdis01fanugoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume II: The Taluks'']
**[https://archive.org/details/manualsoutharco00garsgoog ''Manual of the South Arcot District''] by J H Garstin, Collector of South Arcot. 1878 Archive.org. Also available to read online at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online], with a [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12222 mirror version on Archive.org]
**[http://archive.org/stream/manualoftinnevel00stuarich#page/n3/mode/2up ''A Manual of the Tinnevelly District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Andrew John Stuart 1879 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.12224 ''Manual of the Trichinopoly District in the Presidency of Madras'' ] by Lewis Moore (Comp.) 1878 Is available to read online Archive.org. Mirror of a file at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]].
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1rE5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Manual of the District of Vizagapatam, in the Presidency of Madras''] by D. F. Carmichael 1869 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveand00morrgoog ''A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras''] by Henry Morris 1878 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/statisticalappen02madriala ''Anjengo Volume II: Statistical Appendix''] 1915
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46792/page/n5 ''Madras District Gazetteers: Bellary''] by W Francis 1904.
*:[httphttps://www.newarchive.org/details/dli.ernet.in1430/handlepage/2015n5/1430 mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Bellary Vol-I''] by W Francis 1916. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/details/cuddapah01madr ''Madras District Gazetteers: Cuddapah''] by C F Brackenbury ICS 1915
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/godavari01madr#page/n9/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Godaveri''] 1915
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/madurafrancis01madr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Madura''] 1906
**[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.75585/page/n3 ''Madras District Gazetteers Malabar. Vol. 1'' ] by C A Innes 1951 edition with additional information and incorporating 1908 edition, Archive.org. Is available to read online at [[Online books#Mirror of a book from Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]] (Note, the Search facility in the website appears erratic. This book could only be located using the search term Gazetteer. The catalogue no. is 75585, but even this could not locate it).
*:[https://archive.org/details/malabarandanjen00innegoog ''Malabar, Volume II: Statistical Appendix''] 1905
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/NilgirisFrancis/Untitled#page/n0/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris''] 1908
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/p1salemrich01richuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Salem Volume 1-Part 1''] 1918, [http://www.archive.org/stream/salemgazet02richuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Statistical Appendix for Salem District''] 1932
**''Madras District Gazetteers: Tanjore'' by F R Hemingway [http *://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/13345 1906 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13345 Archive.org mirror version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/1428 1915 edition] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1428/page/n3 Archive.org mirror version]. Originally from Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/details/GazeetersTinnevellyVol11917 ''Madras District Gazetteers: Tinnevelly Volume I''] by H R Pate ICS 1917
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/trichinopoly01madr#page/n9/mode/2up ''Madras District Gazetteers: Trichinopoly''] 1907
*''The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras'' by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe01penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries''] [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe02penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 1805 to 1835''] [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe03penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 3 1835 to 1861'']
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.118293/page/n3/mode/2up ''On the Coromandel Coast''] by F. E. Penny 1908. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also see [[Madras (City)]] for further books by Fanny Emily Penny, the wife of Rev Frank Penny, see item above.
:[https://archive.org/details/southernindia00pennuoft ''Southern India''] Painted by Lady Lawler, Described by F E Penny 1914 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YlIBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Memoir of an Indian Chaplain, the Reverend Charles Church, M.A, of the Madras Establishment of the East India Company''], by Rev James Hough 1859 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892 Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00drurrich ''Reminiscences of Life and Sport in Southern India''] by Colonel Heber Drury, late Madras Staff Corps and Assistant Resident in Travancore and Cochin 1890 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/roughingitinsout00handrich ''Roughing it in Southern India''] by Mrs M A Handley 1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a [[Forestry|Forest Officer]].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/461199 ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.''] by W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. The author was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The Engineering Works Of The Godavari Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1896. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari Volume I], with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari/The_engineering_works_of_the_Godavari#page/n34/mode/1up Map of the Godarari Delta: Left side] and [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari/The_engineering_works_of_the_Godavari#page/n35/mode/1up Map: Right side], [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheGodavari1 Volume II] Archive.org
*''The Engineering Works Of The Kistna Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1899. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt Volume I] with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt/The_engineering_works_of_the_Kistna_delt#page/n19/mode/2up Map of the Kistna River Basin], now known as the Krishna River. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt1 Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_irg2AAAAMAAJ/page/n3 ''Illustrated guide to the South Indian Railway, including the Mayavaram-Mutupet, and Peralam-Karaikkal railway''] 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra03holluoft ''The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States''] by Edgar Thurston 1913 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India''.
*[https://archive.org/details/southernindia00pennuoft ''Southern India''] Painted by Lady Lawler, Described by F E Penny 1914 Archive.org*[https://catalog.hathitrust.orgsouthernindiaits00some/Recordpage/100500603 n5 ''Southern India, its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources''], comp. by Somerset Playne, assisted by J. W. Bond, ed. by Arnold Wright. Reprint edition, originally published 1914 Hathi Trust Digital Library, restricted to those in some areas such as North America-1915. Archive.org. *[https://booksarchive.google.co.ukorg/books?id=8WNEcgMr11kC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] including Contents. Google Books*[http:details//wwwin.newernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/281893 ''Routes In Maddras Madras District'' 1922] . Title as is catalogued''Maddras''. Archive. Pdf downloadorg, Digital Public Library of IndiaCollection. Publications about ''Routes'' were generally published by the Quartermaster General's Department.*[https://archive.org/details/thomasmunrodevel0000beag/page/n7 ''Thomas Munro and the development of administrative policy inMadras, 1792-1818 : the origins of the Munro system''] by T H Beaglehole.ernet.dli.20151966.281893 Archive.org version]. Publications about ''Routes'' were generally published by the Quartermaster General's DepartmentLending Library.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034530 ''A Handbook of Directions to the Ports in the Presidency of Madras and Ceylon''] by T. E. Marshall, First Assistant Master Attendant, Madras. 1874. British Library Digital Collection.
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E32 ''A Handbook to the Ports on the Coast of India between Calcutta and Bombay, including the Island of Ceylon''] by Herbert Samuel Brown, Lieutenant, R.N.R. Port and Customs Officer, Mangalore. 1897. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/notesonpearlchan00thur/page/n4/mode/2up ''Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf of Manaar''] by Edgar Thurston. 1890 Archive.org. The Madras Government pearl fishery.
*Monograph Series. Republished in 1982 as ''Art in industry through the ages. Monograph series on Madras Presidency / Southern India'', whose contents of 8 monographs may be seen in this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1951597 catalogue link] nla.gov.au
**Not included in the reprint: [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/38196 ''Monograph on Dyes and Dyeing in the Madras Presidency''] by Edwin Holder 1896. Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. **[https://archive.org/details/SilkIndustry ''Monograph on the Silk Fabric Industry of the Madras Presidency''] by Edgar Thurston 1899 Archive.org. Note page 1 is at the back of the book and some pages may be missing. Also available as a pdf download from [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25447 GIPE Digitised Books].**[https://archive.org/details/IvoryIndia ''Monograph on the Ivory Carving Industry of Southern India''] by Edgar Thurston 1901 Archive.org. Also available as a pdf download from [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25886 GIPE Digitised Books]. **[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35139 ''Monograph on Wood-carving in Southern India''] by Edgar Thurston 1903. Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books.**[https://archive.org/details/monographoncarpe00harrrich ''Monograph on the Carpet Weaving Industry of Southern India''] by Henry T Harris 1908 Archive.org. Also available as a pdf download from [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25312 GIPE Digitised Books].**Not included in the reprint: [httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25449 ''Monograph on Tinsel and Wire in the Madras Presidency''] by W S Hadaway 1909. Pdf download GIPE Digitised Books.
