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*[http://archive.org/stream/wynaadandplanti00fordgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''The Wynaad and the Planting Industry of Southern India''] by Francis Ford 1895 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/teaproducingcomp00gowwrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tea producing companies of India and Ceylon, showing the history and results of those capitalised in sterling''] by Gow, Wilson & Stanton, Tea and Tea Share Brokers 1897 Archive.org
*''The Planters' Chronicle''. Published at Madras by the United Planters' Association of Southern India. Initially a monthly, in early 1910 it became a weekly, and remained so until 1930, with a bimonthly journal during World War II. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.
:[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233146 Vol-I (1906-07)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233140 Vol-II (1908)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233141 Vol-III (1908)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233142 Vol- IV (1910)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233147 Vol- V (1910)]
:[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233148 Vol-VI (1911)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233149 Vol- VII (1912)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233150 Vol- VIII (1913)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233143 Vol-IX (1914)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233139 Vol-X (1915)]
:[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/20165 Vol-XVI (1921)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/20166 Vol-XX (1925)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/20167 Vol-XXI (1926)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/20169 Vol-XXIII (1928)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/20164 Vol-XXV (1930)]
:[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/232852 Vol- XXVI (1931)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/19211 Vol-XXVII (1932)], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/229831 Vol-XXXV (1940)]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianteaitscul00baldgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Tea, its Culture & Manufacture''] by Claud Bald 1907. Archive.org (One of the books on the reading list in the Fibis Article mentioned above).
*''Proceedings Of The United Planters Association Of Southern India''. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/1673 1910], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/7671 1911], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/240701 1913], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/240697 1915], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/240700 1916], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/7669 1917], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/41215 1929]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924013772441#page/n1/mode/2up ''The early history of the tea industry in north-east India''] by Harold Hart Mann 1918 Archive.org
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945, may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, including as a [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129 pdf download]. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from North Burma into India.
*Text from ''Navvies To The Fourteenth Army'' by AH Pilcher c 1947 is available as pdf downloads from the Koi Hai website, located under [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=508961 Memories, the Henderson Family] Scroll down to the item dated October 12, 2009. Does not contain the illustrations and maps from the original publication. The author was Col: A H Pilcher who at the outbreak of the second world war commanded the [[Assam Valley Light Horse]]. In March 1942 he was put in charge of raising a labour force from the Tea Plantations to build the Manipur/Burma Road to evacuate the 14th Army and also the many civilians who were fleeing Burma. Eventually he raised and commanded a labour force of 82000 <ref> Scroll down to comments section [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2776340.shtml Jungle Work: A Civil Engineer in Burma] BBC ww2peopleswar</ref> This book (55 pages) was published in Calcutta for Private Circulation and was illustrated with black and white plates and line drawing maps. <ref> marelibri.com, page no longer accessible</ref> The [[British Library]] has a catalogue reference Mss Eur F174/1316, but this is possibly a manuscript, not the printed book. The book is available at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/40905 ''Planting Directory Of Southern India 1956'']. Published by the United Planters Association Of Southern India, Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
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