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==Southern Asia==
 
* ''Christ Church, Polibetta, Coorg, India : burials 1892-1962'', edited by Theon Wilkinson. London: BACSA, 1985
A typescript of the Burial Register.
 
* Cooke, David
Transcripts of memorial inscriptions from British and Dutch tombs from 17th century. With 40 illustrations, plans and a map.
 
* Cooke, David
Covers the Old Cemetery; Mors Janua Vitae Cemetery; Waltair Cemetery; and church monumental inscriptions. The oldest dates from 1699. Over 70 illustrations.
 
* Cooke, David
British tombs from 1811. Twenty illustrations, plans and map.
 
* Cotton, Julian James
[https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n5/mode/2up Online edition] 1905. archive.org
 
* Davies, Vincent
Transcripts from tombs of people mostly associated with indigo and sugar factories in North Bihar. Includes 11 illustrations and a map.
 
* Davies, Vincent
In addition to the transcripts there are biographical notes, illustrations and two maps.
 
* Davies, Vincent
The 235 tombstones recorded tell the story of this 'Invalid' station from 1768. With the modern name of Munger this town is in Bihar. Includes illustrations, maps and plans.
 
* Farrington, Susan
Transcripts of monumental inscriptions and burial registers, this includes 70 illustrations and plans.
 
* Farrington, Susan
Around 900 monumental inscriptions dating from 1849. Profusely illustrated and with helpful plans.
 
* Farrington, Susan
This additional volume contains more inscriptions from churches and other cemeteries, and is once again profusely illustrated.
 
* Farrington, Susan
Covers the cemeteries, the town's history, the staff college, railways, churches and the horrifying 1935 earthquake. With more than 100 illustrations and plans.
 
* Farrington, Susan
Covers the main Harley Street Cemetery, with additional monumental inscriptions from four other cemeteries and plaques from churches. Contains 40 illustrations and plans.
 
* Galsworthy, Aylmer Jean
Inscriptions and biographical notes: graves listed by year of death (1820-1912), plus endowments (1888-1951). Also lists of army personnel, civilians, stonemasons etc.
 
* ''A Guide to the Christian cemetery, Gilgit, northern areas, Pakistan''. London: BACSA, 2001
 
* Harfield, Alan
Monumental inscriptions and burial registers. Includes a complete listing of the British and Indian regiments there, along with a history of the garrison. Thirty illustrations.
 
* Harfield, Alan
The monumental inscriptions for both cemeteries, plus the Burial Registers of Cantonment Cemetery. With 22 illustrations and plans.
 
* Hewson, Eileen
This book together with Hewson's ''Digboi War Cemetery'' and ''Guwahati War Cemetery'' provides a complete record of all memorials to be found in the graveyards of Assam and North-East India.
 
* Hewson, Eileen
Monumental inscriptions from the area of India bordering on Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Many tea planters, particularly from Scotland, lived and died in this corner of India.
 
* Hewson, Eileen
This book together with Hewson's ''Assam and North-East India'' and ''Guwahati War Cemetery'' provides a complete record of all memorials to be found in the graveyards of Assam and North-East India.
 
* Hewson, Eileen
Transcripts of European and Indian Christian memorials in this area of the Himalayas, together with information from burial records. Includes details of the victims of a massacre at Baramulla convent by Afghan insurgents.
 
* Hewson, Eileen
This book together with Hewson's ''Assam and North-East India'' and ''Digboi War Cemetery'' provides a complete record of all memorials to be found in the graveyards of Assam and North-East India.
 
* Hewson, Eileen
Transcriptions from the few remaining graves of explorers, sportsmen and missionaries from the mid-1800s, with biographical details. Includes 20 illustrations and a map.
 
* Irving, Miles
Inscriptions from graves and monuments of some 1100 soldiers, mostly officers, together with additional biographical notes. Originally published as volume 2 of the Indian Monumental Inscription Series, this covers the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan.
 
* LaBouchardiere, Basil
This cemetery was cleared in 1977 and a complete record made of all inscriptions. The 28 page booklet contains eight illustrations and four maps/plans.
 
* ''The Malabar Coast : the burial registers of St Thomas' Church, Quilon and Christ Church, Trivandrum'', edited by Peter de Jong. London: BACSA, 1992
The burial registers of St Thomas' Church, Quilon (1829-1961) and Christ Church, Trivandrum (1863-1961)
 
* ''Munnar, Kerala, India : burials 1894-1959'', edited by Theon Wilkinson. London: BACSA, 1990
A slim volume containing a typescript of the burial register. With six illustrations.
 
* Radford, John
Covers the tea areas in the valleys of Luskerpore, Balisera, Manu/ Doloi, Lungla and Juri; also the oldest cemetery in Sylhet town. With 45 illustrations, maps and plans.
 
* Roberts, John Cantwell and Chekkutty N.P.
Note: only available from South India Research Associates (SIRA), Calicut, which is engaged in the retrieval of European records and monumental inscriptions in South India.
 
* ''Ranchi, Bihar : burials'', edited by Vincent Davies. London: BACSA, 1987
A typescript of the Burial Register covering 1894-1959.
 
* ''South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta''. 4th ed. Calcutta: APHCI ; London: BACSA, 2006
A register of the graves and standing tombs from 1767.
 
* Volkers, Robin
A record of over 5,000 burials from 1806-1990s, including all existing monumental inscriptions, with plot diagrams indicating the shape and location of the tombs.
 
* Yalland, Zoe
==Southeast Asia==
 
* Beavington, Ed
Headstone inscriptions.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Monumental inscriptions and a complete transcript of the Burial Register from 1861-1972 together with background information. Also covers ten other cemeteries in Bangkok. Thirty illustrations.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Distributed in the United Kingdom by BACSA.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Includes 27 illustrations plus plans.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Monumental inscriptions including those relating to deaths in World War II. With 70 illustrations and plans.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Contains 23 illustrations and a plan.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Contains five illustrations.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Distributed by BACSA in the United Kingdom.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Cover title reads: "Penang, Malaysia : graves of Europeans in the Protestant section of the Western Road Cemetery". With 27 illustrations and a plan.
 
* Corfield, Justin
Includes 14 illustrations and a plan.
 
* Harfield, Alan
From the Portuguese time in 1511, through the Dutch occupation 1641-1795 and from 1819-25 to the British period. Includes a short history with lists of churches and monumental inscriptions; also an account of the local wars with lists of casualties in the Malayan Emergency.
 
* Harfield, Alan
British graves in Sumatra between 1685 and 1825. Includes 35 illustrations and four maps/plans.
 
* Harfield, Alan
A comprehensive record of all main cemeteries.
 
* Harfield, Alan
''Penang and Perak : Christian cemeteries''. BACSA, 1987
 
* Wood, Richard
Illustrations with biographical notes of over 4,000 graves from 1854 - the dead of 41 nations rest here - with the inscriptions capturing much of the history of Japan over the last 140 years. Over 100 illustrations and a map.
 
==General==
 
* Hewson, Eileen
Transcripts of memorials to Moravian missionaries who travelled from Herrnhut in Germany and settled in the remote Himalayan areas of Ladakh and Lahoul. The inscriptions for colleagues who went to Jamaica to establish schools and clinics for the slaves on that island are also included.
 
 
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