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*India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-12/1355482363 post] explaining the meaning of the initials PM, PDGSB
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*[[FIBIS Journals]] no 20 contains excellent article ''Freemasonry in India'' by Susan Snell
==Abbreviations==
*PM stands for Past Master (of a lodge).
*PDGSB stands for Past Deputy Grand Sword Bearer (a ceremonial office in Grand Lodge).<ref>Faithfull, Robert. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/785313/ Masonic initials] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 14 December 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2019.</ref>
== External Links ==
*[http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/ The Library and Museum of Freemasonry (United Grand Lodge of England)] includes [http://www.masonicperiodicals.org major English Masonic publications online] and [http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/catalogue.php Library catalogue] Searches of records can be ordered.
*[http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2008/10/amir-habibullah.html Amir Habibullah Khan: Afghan Reformer and Freemason] (National Heritage Museum) became a Mason in India in 1907
*[http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/Francken-Manuscript.html A lost copy of the Francken manuscript found in Lahore Pakistan] freemasons-freemasonry.com
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924030323780#page/n1/mode/2up ''"Stewart" Lodge, No. 1960, E.C., holding at Rawal Pindi and Murree, under the district Grand Lodge of the Punjab. Address by the Worshipful Master (Wor. Bro. C.H. Blackburn) on the working of the Lodge for the year 1896''] 1897 Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924030323780#page/n13/mode/2up List of members to 31 December 1896]
*[https://archive.org/details/historyoflodgeri00wadirich ''History of Lodge Rising Star of Western India No 342''] by D F Wadia 1912. Archive.org. Also available as a [http: ==References==<references//www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/222243 pdf download, Digital Library of India]>
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