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*[http://www.rics.org/ Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors] has a [http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/more-services/library/library-enquiry-service/ library] (under the heading Resources) and will search their archives for biographical information for a fee.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/majorjamesrennel00markuoft ''Major James Rennell and the rise of modern English geography''] by Clements R Markham 1895 Archive.org. Rennell arrived in India with the Royal Navy in 1760, transferred to the East India Company in 1763, and in 1764 was appointed Surveyor-General of Bengal, and also was commissioned as a ensign in the Bengal Engineers, aged 21. He remained in India until 1777. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rennell James Rennell] Wikipedia. Also see [[Gazetteers]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=tE41AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A manual of surveying for India, detailing the mode of operations on the revenue surveys in Bengal and the North-western provinces''] by Ralph Smyth and Henry Edward Landor Thuillier 1851 Google Books
*''A Memoir On The Indian Surveys'' by Clements R Markham Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoironindiansu00mark#page/n3/mode/2up First Edition 1871], [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirontheindia025502mbp#page/n1/mode/2up 2nd Edition 1878]
*[https://archive.org/details/india01holdgoog ''India''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gatesofindiabei00hold ''The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
*[https://archive.org/details/politicalfrontie00holdiala ''Political Frontiers and Boundary Making''] by Col. Sir Thomas H Holdich 1916
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