Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories

This page is a part of Newspapers and journals online

There are four subscription sites which contain online newspapers, journals, directories etc, published in India

The access is restricted to Library Card holders of participating libraries, including the following National Libraries (noting there is generally a residential requirement): Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, State Library of NSW, and many University Libraries. At least one site, ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

A part of Gale Digital Collections.

• A List of the Company's civil servants, at their settlements in the East-Indies, the island St. Helena, and China. 1790, 1799. HEIC lists of senior and junior merchants, factors, and writers.
• Bengal calendar. 1787, 1789.
• Bengal calendar & register. 1790.
• Bengal kalendar and almanack. 1792.
• Bengal kalendar and register. 1795, 1800.
• Bengal or East-India calendar. 1795. Includes details for Madras, Bombay etc.
• Bengal register, containing lists of the Hon. Company's civil and military establishments, under the Presidency of Fort William. 1787. HEIC employees in Bengal, including surgeons.
• Calcutta monthly register. Vol 1, November 1790.
• East India kalendar; or, Asiatic register for Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Fort Marlborough, China, and St. Helena. 1791, 1797.
• Oriental magazine; or, Calcutta amusement. 1785.

Eighteenth Century Journals, Newspapers and Periodicals c 1685-1815

A part of Adam Matthew Digital.

Published in Calcutta

• Asiatic Mirror, and Commercial Advertiser. 276 (22 May 1793), 284 (17 July 1793), 296 (9 October 1793), 526 (7 March 1798).
• Calcutta Chronicle; and General Advertiser. 1787-1790.
• Calcutta Friday Morning Post and General Advertiser. 1793.
• Calcutta Gazette; or, Oriental Advertiser, / Calcutta Gazette. 1784-1794.
• Calcutta Morning Post Extraordinary. 1793.
• Hicky's Bengal Gazette; or, Calcutta General Advertiser. 1780-1782.
• India Gazette, or, Calcutta Public Advertiser. 1780-1785 (incomplete), 1793.
• World. 1794.

Published in Madras

• Hircarrah. 1794.
• Madras Courier. 1790-1792.
• Madras Gazette. 1788, 1809.
• The Phoenix. 1797.

Published in Bombay

• Bombay Courier. 1793-1817 (incomplete).
• Bombay Gazette. 1792, 1813-1814.

19th Century UK Periodicals

A part of Gale Digital Collections.

Published in Calcutta

• Bengal Catholic Expositor, continued as Catholic Herald, continued as Bengal Catholic Herald. 1839-41/March-Dec 1841/1842-64.
• Calcutta Review. 1844-1900.
• The Friend of India / The Friend of India and Statesman / Statesman and Friend of India / The Friend of India and Statesman. 1835-76/1877-83/1885-94/1894-1900
• Gleanings in Science /Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1829-31/1832-1900.
• Oriental Observer / Oriental Literary Observer / Oriental Observer / Oriental Observer and Literary Chronicle. 1827-31/ May-Dec 1831/1832-33/1837-39.
• Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (Asiatick Researchers' Society of History, Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia in Bengal, Calcutta, India) 1800-1839.

Published in Madras

• Madras Journal of Literature and Science. 1833-94.

The Making of the Modern World

The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850. A part of Gale Digital Collections.

The following directories relating to India have been noted:

• A List of the Company's civil servants, at their settlements in the East-Indies, the island St. Helena, and China 1785
• East India kalendar; or, Asiatic register for Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Fort Marlborough, China, and St. Helena. 1791, 1792 (1791 is also available on ECCO)
• The East India Directory and Register for the years
  • 1804, 1805, 1808, 1809
  • 1810, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1819
  • 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1826, 1827, 1828
  • 1831, 1832, 1837,
  • 1841, 1844

Some of these years, 1819, 1821,1823,1828,1844 are also available on Directories online

• The Calcutta Star almanac and strangers’ guide in Calcutta : including commercial & trade list for MDCCCXLV. Calcutta, [1844?].

Other categories of books relating to India include:

• Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor (Bombay, India). The first annual report. With a list of benefactors and subscribers. Instituted January 29th 1815. Bombay, 1816
• Statistical report on the sickness and mortality among the troops serving in the Madras Presidency : prepared from official documents by Thomas Graham Balfour Edinburgh, 1847