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* Axelby, Richard and Savithra, Preetha Nair
''Science and the Changing Environment in India 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records'' 2009. The guide is arranged in eleven chapters: plants; agriculture; [[forestry|forests]]; animals; geology; meteorology; health and disease; water; communication networks and the built environment; ethnography; landscape and topography.
*Yeo, Geoffrey (1995)
'The British Overseas, A Guide to Records of Their Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials Available in the United Kingdom''
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''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.
*Spencer, William (2008)
''Army Records: A Guide for Family Historians''. Mainly about records in the [[The National Archives|TNA]] and the India Office at the [[British Library]]. Contains chapters '[[Royal Artillery]]' and 'The [[British Army]] in India' and the '[[Indian Army]]'.
