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Books online containing strong Biographical Interest

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This page to be regarded work in progress….. designed to provide a quick search into some standard “first stop” sources for biographical information.

==General content==

* [http://www.wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Directories_online East India Registers and other directories ] This is an internal link to lists of available online searchable directories.
* Also a collective search of the above directories available in full view at googlebooks can be made via the [http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&uid=4345922024743697884 Fibis Library]

* [http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Dictionary of Indian Biography by C E Buckland] archive.org See review in [http://www.wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Biographies_reading_list Biographies Reading List]

==Civil Service==

See also : [[Indian Civil Service]] for further information and titles.

*[http://www.archive.org/details/recordofservices00prinrich Record of services of the Honourable East India Company's civil servants in the Madras presidency, from 1741 to 1858. by Charles Campbell Prinsep]. Archive.org

*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lgIRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false Alphabetical List of the honourable East India Company’s Bengal Civil Servants from the year 1730 to the year 1738 by Dodwell & Miles] googlebooks.com

* [http://www.archive.org/stream/memorialsoldhai00collgoog#page/n5/mode/2up Memorials of Old Haileybury College] archive.org. Contains histories of service of [[writer|Writers]].

* [http://www.archive.org/stream/classifiedlistof00indirich#page/n5/mode/2up Classified list of forest officers of the Imperial and Provincial services in India and Burma on 1st January 1916] Archive.org

== Army ==

*[http://www.archive.org/details/alphabeticallist00dodwrich Alphabetical list of the officers of the Bengal army; with the dates of their respective promotion, retirement, resignation, or death from 1760 to 1834 inclusive, by Dodwell & Miles] Archive.org

*[http://www.archive.org/details/alphabeticallist00dodwuoft Alphabetical list of the officers of the Madras army; with the dates of their respective promotion, retirement, resignation, or death from 1760 to 1834 inclusive, by Edward Dodwell] Archive.org

* [http://www.archive.org/stream/addiscombeitsher00viba#page/n7/mode/2up Addiscome - Its heroes and men of Note by Col H M Vibart] Archive .org

==Cemetery Inscriptions ==

See also [http://www.wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Cemeteries Cemeteries] for further information and links

*[http://www.archive.org/details/listofinscriptio00blunuoft List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh by Sir Edward Arthur Henry Blunt (1911)] Archive.org

*[http://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The Bengal Obituary: or, a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth, being a compilation of tablets and monumental inscriptions from various parts of the Bengal and Agra presidencies 1851] Google Books

*[http://books.google.com/books?id=3HYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 The Complete Monumental Register: Containing All the Epitaphs in the Different Churches and Burial Grounds in and about Calcutta by M Derozario 1815 ]Google Books

*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007648516#page/n7/mode/2up List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated by J Penry Lewis 1913] Archive.org

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