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Contributors are implored not to add further titles to the Recommended Reading section without including a review. Please take the time to say what the title is about and why it is recommended using [[Guidelines for contributing to the Recommended Reading Lists | the guidelines]] as a basis for your entry. If you have read any of the following titles and are prepared to add submit a review this would be most appreciated, as the entry can then be moved to the appropriate reading list. .
*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
* Pears, Walford
''Schreyvogel's Mission: Lindau to Trichinopoly'' Pub 2011. Daniel Schreyvogel was a missionary in [[Tranquebar]] from 1803 to 1826.
====Directories and Journals====
* ''The Asiatic annual register, or, A view of the history of Hindustan, and of the politics, commerce and literature of Asia''. [Online version] London: Cadell & Davies, 1799-1811
In addition to standard information, these include many items about shipping, including ships hired for the season, and loss of ships.
All editions are fully available at Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Asiatic_Annual_Register|our index to volumes]].
* ''The Asiatic journal and monthly miscellany/register''. [Online version] London: W.H. Allen, 1816-1845.
In addition to standard information, these include many items about shipping, including ships hired for the season, and loss of ships.
Google Books provides many editions (there were two per year until 1829, then three) to view online or download. FIBIwiki has an [[Asiatic Journal|index to available editions]].
*''The Oriental magazine, and Calcutta review'' [Online version] 1823
Available to view or download on Google Books: [http://books.google.com/books?id=0hkoAAAAYAAJ Volume 1, Jan-June 1823] [http://books.google.com/books?id=HRooAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, July-December 1823]
* ''The Oriental herald and colonial review'' / edited by James Silk Buckingham. [Online version] London: Sandford Arnot
Available to view or download on Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Oriental_Herald_and_Colonial_Review|our index to volumes]].
* ''Parbury's oriental herald and colonial intelligencer''. [Online version] London: Parbury & Co
Available to view or download on Google Books. See [[Newspapers and journals online]] for index to online volumes.
* ''The Quarterly oriental magazine, review and register''. [Online version] Calcutta: Thacker
Available to view or download on Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Quarterly_Oriental_Magazine.2C_Review_and_Register|our index to volumes]].
* ''The Calcutta Christian observer''. [Online version] Calcutta: Thacker & Co.
Volumes 1-5 include listings of births, marriages, deaths, however the later volumes seem to be limited to missionaries etc. Available to view or download on Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Calcutta_Christian_Observer|our index to volumes]].
* ''Calcutta magazine and monthly register''. [Online Version] Calcutta: S. Smith & Co.
Available to view or download on Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Calcutta_Magazine_and_Monthly_Register|our index to volumes]]. Note that page numbers in some of volumes seem not to be consecutive, perhaps due to the way they have been bound or filmed.
* ''Calcutta monthly journal and general register''. [Online version] Calcutta: Samuel Smith & Son
Several editions are available on Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Calcutta_Monthly_Journal|our index to volumes]].
* ''The Calcutta monthly register''. [Online version] Vol 1, November 1790.
This 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.
* ''The Oriental magazine; or, Calcutta amusement''. [Online version] 1785.
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.
*''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 ]
*''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]
* Grey, C.
''European Adventurers Of Northern India 1785 to 1849'' by C. 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]
* 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====Architecture====
*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&sReferences =books&qid=1260482001&sr=8-1 Amazon.co.uk]. <references />
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====Regimental historiesRailway Interest==== *Moreman, Tim''The NW Frontier of India'' - The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1939-1947 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 1998)
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