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**''Kacheri Cemetery, Kanpur : a complete list of inscriptions with notes on those buried there'' by Zoe Yalland 1985
:[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] have put the indexes to this cemetery book online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
This cemetery was open 1781-1865 and up to 1846 was known as the Officers’ Burial Ground, as mainly military officers and their families were buried there. It became known as Kacheri Cemetery in 1857. [[Cemeteries#Inscriptions in online books|Blunt]] has some entries under Kachahri Cemetery. Private soldiers were buried at Hiramun-Ku –Purwa (open 1796-1818). The New Cantonment Cemetery was open 1818-1943.<ref>[http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Ij5dojANAG0J:www.rcueslko.org/jnnurm/Kanpur/10%2520Chapter%252010%2520Heritage%2520and%2520Tourism.pdf+Kacheri+Cemetery&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiaO2TnCC6QoI29ymzo1XEalKdCKMMGUXKt3NI2AH-ucD1I2SpIXGzYLPpMz4n8THV71O5FMeuAh6Uwa3-UT_-D_668Te91A7L3tuaJm8iAcyu1pINievxjno5bBLVK0RT3V5dP&sig=AHIEtbRdkoY_o3LJAPK55CJVt3yhqTJZfA Kanpur Heritage and Tourism], page 4 and details from BACSA Archive at the British Library, Mss F370.</ref>
*Monumental Inscriptions from Cawnpur Cantonment Cemetery from ''Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series''
**Volume 1 1906. This is a Preview Google Books and unfortunately only part of the data is shown. This book is available at the [[British Library]]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA54 Page 54],[http://books.google.com/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA114 page 114], [http://books.google.com/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA145 page 145], [http://books.google.com/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA172 page 172], [http://books.google.com/books?id=m0VJJ6SHMWUC&pg=PA218 page 218]
*[http://www.christchurchcollegekanpur.com/about.htm Christ Church College, Kanpur]. The College began as an S.P.G. [Society for the Propogation of the Gospel] Mission School in the 1840’s. First called Mission School, then Christ Church School, it grew into a College affiliated to the Calcutta University in 1866.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_High_School,_Kanpur Girls’High School], (Wikipedia), known as Methodist High School since 1952. Established 1874. It also admitted some boys.
 
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