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*Allen, Charles
''The Buddha and the Sahibs'' (2002). A review by William Dalrymple, author of the ''White Mughals'', in the [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview4 Guardian], states “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.” Also reviewed in the [http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/20265/light-from-eastern-windows.thtml Spectator] and 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].
 
*Bevan, Amanda (2006)576 pages.
* Thomas, Noel (Editor)
''Footprints on the Track, Anglo-Indian Railway Memories'' (published by Anglo-Link 2013). For information about this book see [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/of-the-railways-and-the-lives-inextricably-linked-to-it/article5211159.ece "Of the Railways and the lives inextricably linked to it"] October 8, 2013 ''The Hindu Chennai'' (Madras).
 
*Turnbull Alexander
A book has been written called Walers : Australian Horses Abroad by Yarwood, A. T. (Alexander Turnbull), 1927-2002. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1989.: ISBN: 0522843859 Search for a Library in Australia which has this book.
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