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Inscriptions in online books
*''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3HYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 The Complete Monumental Register: Containing All the Epitaphs in the Different Churches and Burial Grounds in and about Calcutta...together with General Inscriptions from the Presidencies of Madras, Bombay etc.]]'' by M Derozario 1815 (230 pages) (Google Books). [http://books.google.com/books?id=3HYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA225 Index of names].The author advises he has borrowed the contents of ''Asiaticus'' by Mr Hawkesworth and of the ''Oriental Obituary'' by Mr Urquhart of Madras.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&printsec=frontcover ''The Bengal Obituary: or, a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth, being a compilation of tablets and monumental inscriptions from various parts of the Bengal and Agra presidencies''] 1851 Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&pg=PA399 Index of Names]
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/65995 '' List of inscriptions on tombs or monuments in Bengal possessing historical or archaeological interest''] by C R Wilson, 1896 is available as a free pdf type download from [[Online books#Family History Books| FamilySearch]] Includes index. Part I contains the Calcutta inscriptions; part II (whose Contents precedes page 121) contains inscriptions from the Lower Provinces. (c 248 + additional pages). There may be download problems during maintenance night time Utah Time (Utah Time=GMT less seven hours). Try again at another time. Adobe Acrobat reader probably required. :Also available from [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/List_of_inscriptions_on_tombs_or_monuments_in_Bengal.pdf wikimedia.org] as a pdf.
*'''Madras Presidency'''
**[https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n5/mode/2up ''Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras possessing historical or archaelogical interest''] Julian James Cotton 1905 archive.org.“It includes all epitaphs of adults earlier than 1800 and such entries of later date as possess historical or local interest”. Covers the Madras Presidency. [https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n15/mode/2up Table of Contents] An Index of names appears at the end.
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