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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20091027093430/http://geocities.com/faskew/Colonial/Glossary/ColGlossary.htm Askew's Glossary of
Victorian Colonial Terminology] includes a section on 'British Colonial Military Terms and Soldier Slang' and 'India and the Northwest Frontier'. Now an archived website.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j5NeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA179 A description of coins, weights and measures in use in Madras c 1832]. The terms for weights are pollum, vis, maund, candy, and for grain puddy or seer, marcal and kallum. For cloth, terms are mollum or cubit. Page 179 ''The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras'' by Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel 1832 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.
*''A Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms''. See [[Dictionaries online]]
