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*[http://www.worldlatestnews.com/business-news/infusing-life-into-british-era-graveyards-in-himachal-73225 "Infusing life into British era graveyards in Himachal"] WorldLatestNews.com
→Historical books online
[http://www.archive.org/stream/simlapastpresent00buckrich#page/208/mode/2up Cemeteries] from ''Simla, Past and Presen''t by Edward J Buck 1904 Archive.org.<br>
[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=65 "Simla District"] page 43 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library<br>
Inscriptions from [httphttps://shimlawalks.com/cemeteriesinshimla.html cemetery-in-sanjauli/ Sanjauli Cemetery in Shimla] and [httphttps://shimlawalks.com/imperialkenlog-cemetery-forests.html in-shimla/ Kenlog Cemetery in Shimla] shimlawalks.com
==Schools==
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=32&s_id=0 Members of the Himalayan Brotherhood, Simla]
*[[:Category:Simla images |Images of Simla]]
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/simla1.html "Home from Home: The Victorians in Simla"] from The Victorian Web
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/gothicrevival/2.html Christ Church Simla] is one of a number of links relating to Simla in [http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/architecture.html Victorian and Edwardian Architecture in British India] from The Victorian Web
*New buildings in [http://www.higman.de/Henry%20Irwin/simla.htm Simla 1881-1888] from Henry Irwin Architect in India 1841 – 1922
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180405112533/http://hpshimla.nic.in/sml_heritage.htm Shimla-Heritage] , now archived, includes some old photographs of the town.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140426155224/http://www.iias.org/history.html History of the Viceregal Lodge] iias.org, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822040517/http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/surrey-in-tibet Surrey in Tibet [Simla<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by William Dalrymple 1997. travelintelligence.com, now archived. Also an episode in the 1997 TV documentary series [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018211617/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568 Stones of the Raj]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110211192518/http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?264993 Deodar Tales: Shimla: Heritage Homes] OutlookIndia.com 19 April 2010 , now archived. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20161229205446/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/8827419/Shimla-India-The-queen-of-hills.html Shimla, India: The queen of hills] telegraph.co.uk 16 October 2011, now archived.*An [httphttps://dspace.wrlcarchive.org/viewdetails/ImgViewer?url=http:silentworkerv32n6/page/dspace.wrlc.orgn14/docmode/manifest/2041/38070 1up article] about Dorothy Sanders, who was deaf and spent her childhood in India. It briefly mentions she attended a "hearing school" in Simla, (probably circa 1900/1910). ''The Silent Worker'', Volume 32, No.6, March 1920 from the [http://www, page 155.aladin0.wrlcArchive.org/gsdl/collect/gasw/gasw.shtml , Gallaudet University Archives], WRLC Libraries Digital and Special Collections.
*"An officer in Simla" [http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/an-officer-in-simla-part-1 Part 1] [http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/an-officer-in-simla-part-2 Part 2] An album of photographs and other items from Ian Hamilton's time in Simla, India 1885-1887 from "The Serving Soldier" collection, King’s College London
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3915253.ece The dakiya and the dak ghar] by Sarita Brara September 20, 2012 The Hindu. The Shimla General Post Office opened in 1883.
====Historical books online====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/pager.html?object=67 1909 Map of Simla] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 26, Atlas 1909 edition'', page 61.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/pager.phphtml?object=70 1931 Map of Simla] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 26, Atlas 1931 edition'', page 63.*[httphttps://dspacearchive.gipe.ac.inorg/details/gazetteer-simla-1888/xmluipage/handlen1/10973mode/33523 2up ''Gazetteer of the Simla District 1888-89''] Archive.org. Also available as a [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/33523 by RG Thomson. Pdf pdf download ] Digital Repository of GIPE-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]. Note: this latter volume had been catalogued 1988-89, but it is believed this should be 1888-1889. Published by the Punjab Government.*[httphttps://booksarchive.google.com.auorg/details/books?id=k3gazetteer-simla-j08QIKWUC&pg=PP1 1904/page/n1/mode/2up ''Gazetteer of the Punjab District Gazetteers Volume VIII A. Simla District 1904''] being Archive.org. Also available to download from [http://111.68.102.42:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16351 DSpace Lahore School of Economics]*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1916 ''Punjab District Gazetteers States Gazetteer Volume VIII-ASimla Hill States 1910'' (reprint)], published 1911. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Preview Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dpFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A Guide to Simla: With a Descriptive Account of the Neighbouring Sanitaria, Subathoo, Dugshaie, Sunawar, Kussowlie, Kotegurh, Chini, &c., &c., &c''] by W H Carey 1870 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/simlapastpresent00buckrich#page/n11/mode/2up ''Simla, Past and Present''] by Edward J Buck 1904 Archive.org. It includes a chapter on [http://www.archive.org/stream/simlapastpresent00buckrich#page/208/mode/2up Cemeteries]. Missing pages noted. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5969/mode/1up 2nd file, 1904] with images correctly rotated, but also missing pages. Archive.org, CSL Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.652/page/n3/mode/2up ''Simla, Past and Present'' 2nd edition [with new chapters<nowiki>]</nowiki>] and different illustrations by Edward J Buck 1925. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8433/mode/2up 2nd file, 1925] which appears to contain an additional [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8433/page/n92/mode/1up Map of Simla District] between pages 58-59. Archive.org, CSL Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7097/mode/2up ''Simla in Ragtime: an Illustrated Guide Book''] by "Doz", elsewhere stated to be pseudonym of D. O. Sullivan, an American<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200316022125/https://www.vialibri.net/years/books/12390713/1918-india-doz-pseudonym-of-d-o-simla-in-ragtime-an-illustrated-guide vialibri.net]</ref>. 1913. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7361/page/n1/mode/2up ''Thackers New Guide To Simla''] by Beresford Harrop 1925 Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi]. *[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3523/page/n1/mode/2up ''Simla - A Hill Station in British India''] by Pat Barr and Ray Desmond 1978. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*Kennedy, Dane. [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft396nb1sf/ ''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj''] (full text, searchable). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN 0520201884. ISBN 978-0520201880
*''Thackers Indian Directory '''1908'''''. The Mofussil Directory entry for Simla is pages 529-539, digital pages 792-802. Includes List of Residents, page 532, digital page 795. For this and additional directories available online, refer [[Directories online#Thacker's Indian Directory|Directories online - Thacker's Indian Directory]].
