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:[http://books.google.com/books?id=1bFLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume 1]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=1bFLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents, Volume 1]. India commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=1bFLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154 Chapter 12], page 154. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2LpLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=2LpLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9, Contents, Volume 2]
:[http://www.google.com/books?id=qGIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1825 revised edition], [http://www.google.com/books?id=qGIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents] by William Milburn and Thomas Thornton Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283924/page/n1 ''Trade In The Eastern Seas 1793-1813''] by C. Northcote Parkinson 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=U1oOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The East Indian calculator, or, Tables for assisting computation of batta, interest, commission, rent, wages, &c. in Indian money: with copious tables of the exchanges between London, Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, and of the relative value of coins current in Hindostan : tables of the weights of India and China, with their respective proportions, &c. : to which is subjoined an account of the monies, weights, and measures of India, China, Persia, Arabia, &c‬''] by Thomas Thornton 1823 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Useful Tables, forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, Weights, and Measures of British India''] by James Prinsep 1834 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8NxDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Sketch of the commercial resources and monetary and mercantile system of British India: with suggestions for their improvement, by means of banking establishments''] 1837 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India'']1850 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents] Includes Vocabulary, Monetary System, Weights, Linear Measures etc.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinesecommerci00willgoog/page/n11 ''The Chinese commercial guide : containing treaties, tariffs, regulations, tables, etc useful in the trade to China & Eastern Asia : with an appendix of sailing directions for those seas and coasts''] by S. Wells Williams 5th edition 1863 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=HBAZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The rise, progress, and present condition of banking in India''], [http://books.google.com/books?id=HBAZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA417 Index] by Charles Northcote Cooke 1863 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/financialchapter00wachuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City 1864-65''] by Dinsha Edulji Wacha 2nd Edition 1910 Archive.org. Includes the failure of the Bank of Bombay.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianempireitsp00hunt#page/554/mode/2up "Commerce and Trade"] page 555 ''The Indian Empire, its People, History, and Products'' by William Wilson Hunter 2nd Edition 1886 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianempireitsp00hunt#page/n31/mode/2up Contents]
*''A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India'' by George Watt There were ten volumes in total, including an Index volume [https://archive.org/details/adictionaryecon00wattgoog Volume I, Abaca to Buxus] 1885; [https://archive.org/details/adictionaryecon00agrigoog Volume VI, Part II Sabadilla to Silica] 1893; [https://archive.org/details/adictionaryecon01agrigoog Volume VI, Part III Silk to Tea] 1893 Archive.org
:All the remaining volumes are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. (Vol- II Cabbage to Cyperus: [http://www.new.dli..ernet.in/handle/2015/32869 Link to pdf download] ; Vol- III Dacrydium to Gordonia: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/32870 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-IV (Gossypium to Lonociera): [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/32871 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-V (Linum to Oyster): [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449489 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-Vi Part-I (Pachyrhizus to Rye): [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/83728 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-VI Part-IV (Tectona to Zygophillum) [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/109127 Link to pdf download], with mirror editions available on [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A+Dictionary+of+the+Economic+Products+of+India%29&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22digitallibraryindia%22&sort=-date Archive.org] together with an Index volume: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206825 Link to pdf download, DLI], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206825 Archive.org version]. '''Restricted viewing''', probably accessible to those in North America, and some other countries: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001318531 Hathi Trust Digital Library] ten volumes
:[https://archive.org/details/commercialproduc00wattuoft ''The commercial products of India : being an abridgment of The dictionary of the economic products of India''] by Sir George Watt 1908 Archive.org [https://archive.org/stream/commercialproduc00wattuoft#page/1144/mode/2up Index]
*[https://archive.org/details/economichistoryo00dutt ''The Economic History of India under early British rule, from the rise of the British power in 1757 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837''] by Romesh Dutt 6th edition 1920 Archive.org. First published c 1902.
*''Monograph'' Series, Bengal. Subsequently republished in 1976 as [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/108019 ''Art in industry through the ages : Monograph series on Bengal''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108019 Archive.org version]. This book consists of 11 monographs, listed in this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1026466 catalogue record] nla.gov.au. See [[Bengal (Presidency)]] for individual monographs available online, including some not included in the reprint edition.
*Monograph Series, Madras. 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 record] nla.gov.au. See [[Madras (Presidency)]] for for individual monographs available online.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/34719 ''A Monograph On Dyes And Dyeing In The Bombay Presidency''] by C G H Fawcett. [Sir Charles Gordon Hill Fawcett] 1896. Uniform Title: ''Miscellaneous Official Publications''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34719 Archive.org version]. Subsequently republished in 1976 as part of ''Art in industry through the ages : monograph series on Bombay Presidency'', with this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/898370 catalogue record for contents] nla.gov.au.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022945129#page/n3/mode/2up ''The history of the Bank of Bengal: an epitome of a hundred years of banking in India''] by CP Symes Scutt 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/oldcountrytradeo00coatrich ''The Old 'Country Trade' of the East Indies''] by William Herbert Coates, Comm. R N R (retired) 1911 Archive.org
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