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*[https://archive.org/details/historyofceylon00lebl/page/n7 ''History Of Ceylon''] by L. E. Blaze. Reprint of 1933 9th edition, Revised and Enlarged, first published 1900. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/romanticceylonit00rhba/page/n9 ''Romantic Ceylon: Its History, Legend And Story''] by R. H. Bassett. Reprint edition, first published 1929, 2nd edition 1934. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/realceylon0000elli/page/n9 ''The Real Ceylon''] by C. Brooke Elliott. Reprint edition, first published 1938. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
→Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/ceylonportuguese00pier ''Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658''] by P E Pieris, Ceylon Civil Service 1920 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023650959/page/n5 ''Ceylon and the Hollanders, 1658-1796''] by P E Peiris, Ceylon Civil Service 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31997/page/n7 Reprint, of 3rd edition [1930<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dutchinceylonacc0000anth/page/n9 ''The Dutch in Ceylon: An Account of Their Early Visits to the Island, Their Conquests, and Their Rule Over the Maritime Regions During a Century and a Half, Volume 1''] by R G Anthonisz, Formerly Government Archivist, Ceylon. Reprint edition, first published 1929. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/instructionsfro00maetgoog ''Instructions from the Governor-General and Council of India to the Governor of Ceylon, 1656-1665''] Translated by Sophia Pieters. [The Government of Netherlands India]. 1908 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yFpTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East-Indies: together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and…''] by Robert Knox , a Captive there near Twenty Years. 1681 Google Books
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr01lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 1, A-K] 1896, [http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr00lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 2, L-Z] 1898
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059BAA ''The Visitor's Guide to Kandy and Nuwara Eliya''] by S. M Burrows, Ceylon Civil Service, Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Colombo 1897. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofceylon00lebl/page/n7 ''History Of Ceylon''] by L. E. Blaze. Reprint of 1933 9th edition, Revised and Enlarged, first published 1900. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924088807106 ''A Guide to Kandy, with maps. A handbook of information, useful alike to the visitor and the resident''] by George J.A Skeen 1903 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924088807106#page/n14/mode/1up Map of the Town of Kandy]
*[https://archive.org/details/goldentipsdescri00caverich ''Golden tips. A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry''] by Henry W Cave 3rd edition 1904, first published 1900. With illustrations. Archive.org
*''The Ceylon Roll of Honour and Record of Service in the Great War 1914-1918'' by Thomas Southorn, Publisher: Colombo : Times of Ceylon Company, [1919?] is available in a reprint ebook edition to purchase under the title ''Ceylon Roll of Honour World War 1 1914-18''. <ref> ''Ceylon Roll of Honour World War 1 1914-18'' [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/sri-lanka-publications/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-1-a-k-pdf-format/ Part 1 A-K] contains 1218 records; [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/sri-lanka-publications/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-2-l-z-pdf-format/ Part 2 L-Z] contains 1133 records. Kabristan Archives</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/CeylonPastAndPresent ''Ceylon Past and Present''] by Major C. M. Enriquez. c 1927 (not 1815, as catalogued) Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/romanticceylonit00rhba/page/n9 ''Romantic Ceylon: Its History, Legend And Story''] by R. H. Bassett. Reprint edition, first published 1929, 2nd edition 1934. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/realceylon0000elli/page/n9 ''The Real Ceylon''] by C. Brooke Elliott. Reprint edition, first published 1938. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_31_40/JDBU%20Vol%2031%20No%204%20-%201942%281%29.pdf "Periodicals and Newspapers in Ceylon"] ''Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Volume XXXI No 4 April 1942, page 137-152. thedutchburgherunion.org.
*[http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/browse?type=author&value=Fernando%2C+C.+N.+V. Articles on Christianity and Christian Missions in Ceylon] by C. N. V. Fernando from ''University of Ceylon Review'' 1948-1951. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of University of Peradeniya.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromadamspeaktoe00carp ''From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: sketches in Ceylon and India''] by Edward Carpenter 1892 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035F58 Britsh Library Digital Collection] Images may be rotated.[https://archive.org/details/cu31924052629726 New Edition, revised 1903, reprinted 1921] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twohappyyearsinc00gord ''Two Happy Years in Ceylon''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming with [https://archive.org/stream/twohappyyearsinc00gord#page/n15/mode/2up Illustrations] New Edition 1901, first published 1892 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsab00bringoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-Of-War at Ceylon''] by J N Brink, "late adjudant of General Crowther" 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/huntingshootingi00storrich ''Hunting & Shooting in Ceylon''] by Harry Storey 1907. Archive.org. Includes elephant shooting.
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiliala ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. The title page contains a handwritten note “Ceylon Civil Service (Forests)”
:[https://archive.org/details/poemsincaptivity00stiluoft ''Poems in Captivity''] by John Still 1919 Archive.org. Includes poems about Ceylon.
*A visit to Ceylon: [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.211247/2015.211247.India-Of#page/n177 Page 169] ''India of the Rajahs'' by Major S E G Ponder 1940 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*Also see accounts in the following section.
