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==Gallica==
*[http://gallica.bnf.fr Website]
'''Gallica''' is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A researcher has advised:
There are a surprisingly large number of English books, especially scientific journals, and travelogues. Somebody in France was systematically collecting these throughout the early and mid 19th century. There was an earlier version of the "Great Game" going on between Britain and France. My 4 x great uncle John Croft Hawkins, a Bombay Marine officer, took the first steam vessel up the Euphrates to Hit in what is now Iraq. I knew he had done this, because it is mentioned in his obituaries, but do you think I could find an account of it in the British papers? No, either it was so "secret" that the papers were hidden away and lost, or the ants had got it. Yet I have found a nearly contemporary French account of his progess! I have found books in Galica that are not available in Google Books, and some that are only Snippet View in Google Books are available in Full View.
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This link is part of the website [http://www.panhwar.com Panhwar.com] about Sindh
Many books on Bombay and Sindh. Must be downloaded to view.
==National Library of Singapore: Singapore Digitised Books==
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune ([[Poona]]). Pdfs to download.
The website contains a number of Gazetteers which may be located by using Gazetteer as the search term. Other books available to download include ''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926. [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7063 Volume 1], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7065 Volume 2], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7066 Volume 3], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7067 Volume 4], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7134 Volume 5: Supplementary, 1742–74] ==Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek==*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de Website]The website (at May 2014) states "Please find here 2,115 institutions currently registered with the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. The number of partners is rising all the time and, in the long term, all German cultural and scientific institutions are to contribute their contents".
Search results may be filtered according to Language, Media type etc
You can view a volume by clicking on either “Data provider's object view” or "DFG Viewer". The first option takes you to the contributing institution's website, where you will generally find a pdf download in addition to the online book file. The second viewer appears to be a "standard" viewer across all institutions.
==Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - Bavarian State Library==
*[http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Aktuelles-aus-der-Bayerischen-Staatsbibliothek.14+M57d0acf4f16.0.html Website]
Savifadok: English Books from British India collection, Heidelberg University Digital Repository, South Asian Studies. Currently (September 2013} consists of a small collection. The website also contains other items such as [http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2009/254 Burma/Myanmar Bibliographic Project: A Collection of Publications in West-European Languages] by Siegfried M. Schwertner. An extensive bibliography, with separate downloads for each letter of the alphabet.
==Gallica==
*[http://gallica.bnf.fr Website]
'''Gallica''' is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A researcher has advised:
There are a surprisingly large number of English books, especially scientific journals, and travelogues. Somebody in France was systematically collecting these throughout the early and mid 19th century. There was an earlier version of the "Great Game" going on between Britain and France. My 4 x great uncle John Croft Hawkins, a Bombay Marine officer, took the first steam vessel up the Euphrates to Hit in what is now Iraq. I knew he had done this, because it is mentioned in his obituaries, but do you think I could find an account of it in the British papers? No, either it was so "secret" that the papers were hidden away and lost, or the ants had got it. Yet I have found a nearly contemporary French account of his progess! I have found books in Galica that are not available in Google Books, and some that are only Snippet View in Google Books are available in Full View.
==Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online==
