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====Biographical====
*Allen, Charles
''Duel In the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa'' by Charles Allen (2004)
 
* Bennett, Mary
''Who was Dr Jackson? : two Calcutta families, 1830-55''.
London: BACSA, 2002
 
 
* Bhasin Raaja
'' Simla - the summer capital of British India.'' Reprinted Rupa and Co 2011. [http://www.deccanherald.com/content/180162/glimpses-simla.html Review] in Deccan Herald
 
* Pears, Walford
''Schreyvogel's Mission: Lindau to Trichinopoly'' Pub 2011. Daniel Schreyvogel was a missionary in [[Tranquebar]] from 1803 to 1826.
 
 
* Yule, Henry
''Hobson-Jobson : a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive'', by Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell. London: Routledge, 1886
 
There is a limited view of a later edition here at [http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hobson-Jobson#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google Books]
 
 
*''The History of British India'' by James Mill 1817 [http://books.google.com/books?id=1ncIAAAAQAAJ Volume 1, (Books 1, 2, 3)], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zv8LAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, (Books 4, 5,1708-1784)], [http://books.google.com/books?id=gXgIAAAAQAAJ Volume 3 (Book 6,1784-1805)]
*''The History of British India 1805 to 1835'' by Horace Hayman Wilson 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=wxINAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=cBINAAAAYAAJ Volume 2 from 1813], [http://books.google.com/books?id=8swNAAAAIAAJ Volume 3 from 1823]
 
 
*''The History of the British Empire in India'' by George Robert Gleig [http://books.google.com/books?id=05ADAAAAQAAJ Volume 1], pub. 1830, [http://books.google.com/books?id=61YOAAAAQAAJ Volume 2], pub. 1835, [http://books.google.com/books?id=HFcOAAAAQAAJ Volume 3], pub. 1835, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_5ADAAAAQAAJ Volume 4], pub. 1835
 
 
*''Chapters of the Modern History of British India'' by Edward Thornton 1840 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nzhYz6Et_VAC Google Books ]
*''The History of the British Empire in India'' by Edward Thornton [http://books.google.com/books?id=u4MfAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], pub. 1841,[http://books.google.com/books?id=yYYfAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, 1766-1798], pub. 1842, [http://books.google.com/books?id=B4MfAAAAYAAJ Volume 3, 1797-1805], pub. 1842, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rQRXAAAAMAAJ Volume 4, 1805-1819], pub. 1843, [http://books.google.com/books?id=kB4NAAAAYAAJ Volume 5, 1823-1833], pub. 1843 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GGYBAAAAQAAJ Volume 6], pub. 1845. 2nd edition 1859 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ Google Books] with an “entirely new and enlarged [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 glossary"], [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR17 chronological index], and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA609 index]
 
*''The History of the British Empire in India: From the Appointment of Lord Hardinge to the Political Extinction of the East-India Company, 1844 to 1862 : Forming a Sequel to Thornton's History of India'' by Lionel James Trotter 1866 [http://books.google.com/books?id=zIMfAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historybritishe00trotgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 2] (Archive.org)
 
 
*''Political and Military Events in British India: From the Years 1756 to 1849'' by William Hough 1853 .Volume 1 (to 1814) and Volume 2 (1814-1849) are in the same link; index for Volume 2 is at page 371 (following on from Volume 1), then Volume 2 page numbers recommence from page 1. [http://books.google.com/books?id=CI0cAAAAMAAJ Google Books]
 
 
*''A History of the Mahrattas'' by James Grant Duff 1826 [http://books.google.com/books?id=FKQ9AAAAMAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=K_cRAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, 1740-1785], [http://books.google.com/books?id=qqU9AAAAMAAJ Volume 3, 1784-1819] Google Books
 
 
*''The English in Western India: being the early history of the factory at Surat, of Bombay, and the subordinate factories on the western coast'' by Philip Anderson 1854 [http://books.google.com/books?id=RQ8NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 Google Books]
 
 
*[http://thesikhencyclopedia.com/the-british-and-sikhs-1849-1947/european-adventurers-of-northern-india.html?directory=1 European Adventurers Of Northern India 1785 to 1849] by G. Grey first published in 1929 and reprinted by the Languages Department, Punjab, Patiala, in 1970, contains biographical sketches of over one hundred Europeans who came to or served in the Punjab during Sikh times. Available as [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC Limited View Google Books] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT54 Index] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT52 Bibliography]
 
 
*“As Charles Allen shows in his book, under Sir William Jones, the Asiatic Society of Bengal became the scholarly nerve centre that brought together all the different amateur enthusiasts busily working at uncovering the deepest roots of India's lost pre-Islamic history. In the society's Calcutta premises were collated reports sent in from a huge range of eccentric figures working away at translating Buddhist scrolls or ancient rock inscriptions, Gandharan coins or Tibetan mythologies, far separated from each other in remote outposts between the highest peaks of the Himalayas in Tibet and Nepal, through the arid plains of the Deccan to the thickest jungles of 18th-century Burma and Ceylon.” ''The Buddha and the Sahibs'' by Charles Allen 2002 reviewed by William Dalrymple, author of the ''White Mughals'', in the [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview4 Guardian], and in the [http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/20265/light-from-eastern-windows.thtml Spectator] available from [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddha-Sahibs-Discovered-Indias-Religion/dp/0719554284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260482001&sr=8-1 Amazon.co.uk]. This link from the [http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/wwwopac.exe?&qDB=catalo&DATABASE=dcatalo&LANGUAGE=0&rf=200215850&SUCCESS=false Royal Historical Society] lists out some of the people covered in the book.
* ''Parbury's oriental herald and colonial intelligencer''. [Online version] London: Parbury & Co
Available to view or download on Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Parbury.27s_Oriental_Herald_and_Colonial_Intelligencer|our Newspapers and journals online]] for index to online volumes]].
These is one of a number of directories from the late 1700’s available on the website [http://www.gale.cengage.com/DigitalCollections/products/ecco/index.htm Eighteenth Century Collections Online] (ECCO- A part of Gale Digital Collections).The access is restricted to library card holders (usually residents) of participating libraries, including the National Libraries of [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/index.html Scotland], [http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=otherresourcesa-z Wales], [http://www.nli.ie/en/eresources.aspx Ireland], [http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/list/licenced/e Australia], [http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm State Library of NSW], and many Universities.
Most of the original books are in the British Library. ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.
 
====General History====
 
*''The History of British India'' by James Mill 1817 [http://books.google.com/books?id=1ncIAAAAQAAJ Volume 1, (Books 1, 2, 3)], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zv8LAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, (Books 4, 5,1708-1784)], [http://books.google.com/books?id=gXgIAAAAQAAJ Volume 3 (Book 6,1784-1805)]
 
*''The History of British India 1805 to 1835'' by Horace Hayman Wilson 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=wxINAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=cBINAAAAYAAJ Volume 2 from 1813], [http://books.google.com/books?id=8swNAAAAIAAJ Volume 3 from 1823]
 
 
*''The History of the British Empire in India'' by George Robert Gleig [http://books.google.com/books?id=05ADAAAAQAAJ Volume 1], pub. 1830, [http://books.google.com/books?id=61YOAAAAQAAJ Volume 2], pub. 1835, [http://books.google.com/books?id=HFcOAAAAQAAJ Volume 3], pub. 1835, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_5ADAAAAQAAJ Volume 4], pub. 1835
 
 
*''Chapters of the Modern History of British India'' by Edward Thornton 1840 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nzhYz6Et_VAC Google Books ]
*''The History of the British Empire in India'' by Edward Thornton [http://books.google.com/books?id=u4MfAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], pub. 1841,[http://books.google.com/books?id=yYYfAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, 1766-1798], pub. 1842, [http://books.google.com/books?id=B4MfAAAAYAAJ Volume 3, 1797-1805], pub. 1842, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rQRXAAAAMAAJ Volume 4, 1805-1819], pub. 1843, [http://books.google.com/books?id=kB4NAAAAYAAJ Volume 5, 1823-1833], pub. 1843 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GGYBAAAAQAAJ Volume 6], pub. 1845. 2nd edition 1859 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ Google Books] with an “entirely new and enlarged [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 glossary"], [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR17 chronological index], and [http://books.google.com/books?id=GYpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA609 index]
 
*''The History of the British Empire in India: From the Appointment of Lord Hardinge to the Political Extinction of the East-India Company, 1844 to 1862 : Forming a Sequel to Thornton's History of India'' by Lionel James Trotter 1866 [http://books.google.com/books?id=zIMfAAAAYAAJ Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/historybritishe00trotgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 2] (Archive.org)
 
 
*''Political and Military Events in British India: From the Years 1756 to 1849'' by William Hough 1853 .Volume 1 (to 1814) and Volume 2 (1814-1849) are in the same link; index for Volume 2 is at page 371 (following on from Volume 1), then Volume 2 page numbers recommence from page 1. [http://books.google.com/books?id=CI0cAAAAMAAJ Google Books]
 
 
*''A History of the Mahrattas'' by James Grant Duff 1826 [http://books.google.com/books?id=FKQ9AAAAMAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=K_cRAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, 1740-1785], [http://books.google.com/books?id=qqU9AAAAMAAJ Volume 3, 1784-1819] Google Books
 
 
*''The English in Western India: being the early history of the factory at Surat, of Bombay, and the subordinate factories on the western coast'' by Philip Anderson 1854 [http://books.google.com/books?id=RQ8NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 Google Books]
 
 
*[http://thesikhencyclopedia.com/the-british-and-sikhs-1849-1947/european-adventurers-of-northern-india.html?directory=1 European Adventurers Of Northern India 1785 to 1849] by G. Grey first published in 1929 and reprinted by the Languages Department, Punjab, Patiala, in 1970, contains biographical sketches of over one hundred Europeans who came to or served in the Punjab during Sikh times. Available as [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC Limited View Google Books] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT54 Index] [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8AN0-cO-RYC&pg=PT52 Bibliography]
 
 
====Locations====
 
* Bhasin Raaja
'' Simla - the summer capital of British India.'' Reprinted Rupa and Co 2011. [http://www.deccanherald.com/content/180162/glimpses-simla.html Review] in Deccan Herald
====Personal Accounts====
 
*''Ten Years in India: or, The Life of a Young Officer'' by Albert Henry Andrew Hervey of the 40th Regiment Madras Infantry 1850<br> [http://books.google.com/books?id=mrlFAAAAIAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnQIAAAAQAAJ Volume 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=oHQIAAAAQAAJ Volume 3] Google Books<br>
:A later edition was published in 1988 as ''A soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign, 1833-43''.
*''Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India from 1854 to 1863'' by Sir Sydney Cotton 1868 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qZxCAAAAIAAJ Google Books]
 
====Regimental histories====
*''The NW Frontier of India'' Tim Moreman, The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1939-1947 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 1998)
 
 
====Miscellaneous====
 
*Allen, Charles
“As Charles Allen shows in his book, under Sir William Jones, the Asiatic Society of Bengal became the scholarly nerve centre that brought together all the different amateur enthusiasts busily working at uncovering the deepest roots of India's lost pre-Islamic history. In the society's Calcutta premises were collated reports sent in from a huge range of eccentric figures working away at translating Buddhist scrolls or ancient rock inscriptions, Gandharan coins or Tibetan mythologies, far separated from each other in remote outposts between the highest peaks of the Himalayas in Tibet and Nepal, through the arid plains of the Deccan to the thickest jungles of 18th-century Burma and Ceylon.” ''The Buddha and the Sahibs'' by Charles Allen 2002 reviewed by William Dalrymple, author of the ''White Mughals'', in the [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview4 Guardian], and in the [http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/20265/light-from-eastern-windows.thtml Spectator] available from [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddha-Sahibs-Discovered-Indias-Religion/dp/0719554284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260482001&sr=8-1 Amazon.co.uk]. This link from the [http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/wwwopac.exe?&qDB=catalo&DATABASE=dcatalo&LANGUAGE=0&rf=200215850&SUCCESS=false Royal Historical Society] lists out some of the people covered in the book.
 
 
* Yule, Henry
''Hobson-Jobson : a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive'', by Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell. London: Routledge, 1886
There is a limited view of a later edition here at [http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hobson-Jobson#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google Books]
 
 
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