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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IuloAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''The Neilgherry Tea Planter''] by James McPherson 1870 Google Books
*''The Experiences of a Planter in the Jungles of Mysore'' by Robert H Elliot 1871. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ONAMoXQpsVwC&pg=PR3 Volume I] Google Books, [https://archive.org/details/experiencesapla00elligoog/page/n8 Vol. I Archive.org] [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p01118998b?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p01118998b?urlappend=%3Bseq=316 Health management of plantation coolies] page 290, Vol. II. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gRs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol. II Google Books]. Includes Coffee, Chinchona, Cardamon, Tea, Cotton, Silk, Sandal-Wood, Rhea-Grass.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023234515#page/n7/mode/2up ''A tea planter's life in Assam''] by George M Barker 1884. Archive.org. With seventy five illustrations by the author.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofanafri005386mbp/page/n5 ''Memories Of An African Hunter With A Chapter On Eastern India''] by Denis D Lyell 1923 Archive.org. Missing pages 1-13. He went to a tea garden in 1894, and worked in various locations until c 1899.
*''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://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233146 Vol-I (1906-07)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233140 Vol-II (1908)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233141 Vol-III (1908)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233142 Vol- IV (1910)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233147 Vol- V (1910)]:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233148 Vol-VI (1911)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233149 Vol- VII (1912)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233150 Vol- VIII (1913)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233143 Vol-IX (1914)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233139 Vol-X (1915)]:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/20165 Vol-XVI (1921)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/20166 Vol-XX (1925)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/20167 Vol-XXI (1926)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/20169 Vol-XXIII (1928)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/20164 Vol-XXV (1930)]:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/232852 Vol- XXVI (1931)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/19211 Vol-XXVII (1932)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/229831 Vol-XXXV (1940)]:'''Some mirror editions''' available on Archive.org, search title [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Planters+Chronicle%22%29&sort=date "''Planters Chronicle"''] Archive.org, mirrors from Digital Library of India. A broken range of editions from 1906-1915.*[httphttps://www.archive.org/stream/indianteaitscul00baldgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Tea, its Culture search.php?query=%28%22United+Planters%22++%22Southern+India%22%29& Manufacture''] by Claud Bald 1907. Archive.org (One of the books on the reading list in the Fibis Article mentioned above).*sort=date ''Proceedings Of The United Planters Association Of Southern India''], or similar titles. Archive. Pdf downloadsorg, mirrors from Digital Library of India. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/1673 Broken range of editions from 1910], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/7671 1911], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/240701 1913], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/240697 1915], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/240700 1916], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/7669 1917], [http://www.new.dlito 1929.ernet.in/handle/2015/41215 1929]:'''Some mirror editions''' available on Archive.org, search title *[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Proceedings28Tea+OfAnd+TheCoffee+UnitedTrade+Planters+Association+Of+Southern+IndiaJournal%29&sort=date "Proceedings Of The United Planters Association Of Southern India"] *''The Tea And Coffee Trade Journal'', ] published in New York. Pdf downloadsArchive.org, mirrors from Digital Library of India. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/41855 (1916) Broken range of editions from Vol.31]33, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/41856 (1917) to Vol.33]39, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/41858 (1918) Vol.35], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/41859 (1920) Vol.38, No.1], *[http://www.newarchive.dli.ernet.inorg/handlestream/2015indianteaitscul00baldgoog#page/41860 (1920) Vol.38, No. 2-6], [http:n7/mode/www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/39163 (1920) Vol.39]:2up ''Indian Tea, its Culture & Manufacture'Some mirror editions''' available on ] by Claud Bald 1907. Archive.org, search title [https://archive(One of the books on the reading list in the FIBIS Article mentioned above).org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Tea+And+Coffee+Trade+Journal%29&sort=date "Tea And Coffee Trade Journal"]
*[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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/424/mode/2up ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources''] by Somerset Playne , J W Bond 1917 at Archive.org lists four tea companies
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1970-assam-shikari-tea-planters-story-of-hunting-and-high-adventure-by-nicholls-s-pdf/ ''Assam Shikari. A tea planter's story of hunting and high adventure in the jungles of North East India''] by Frank Nicholls, (born 1889) 1970. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945, is available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129 pdf download], Digital Library of India and is also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1955-the-children-of-kanchenjunga-by-fletcher-s-pdf/ ''The Children of Kanchenjunga''] by David Wilson Fletcher. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Full title: ''The Children of Kanchenjunga. On the lives of a tea-planter and his family in the Darjeeling Hills'', Published London 1955.
:These two publications are possibly the same book, with different titles. Elsewhere, the author was stated to be a Gurkha officer who ran a tea plantation in Darjeeling in 1953.
*[https://archive.org/details/EconomicPlantsOfTheNilgiris ''Horticultural and economic plants of the Nilgiris''] edited by S Krishnamurthi 1953 Includes Tea, coffee chinchona etc Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.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. It is also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40905 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/other-publications/the-pioneers-1825-1900-the-early-british-tea-and-coffee-planters-and-their-way/quick-view/index.php ''The Pioneers 1825 - 1900 : The Early British Tea and Coffee Planters and Their Way of Life''] by John Weatherstone. 1986. historyofceylontea.com. Also available as [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3201 a pdf download, Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n5 ''Pflanzerleben in Indien kulturgeschichtliche bilder aus Assám''] by Oscar Flex 1873 Archive.org. German language. [http://www.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de/index.php/artikel/1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Extract from the book] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. German language. ([https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n71 page 63]), [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de%2Findex.php%2Fartikel%2F1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Google Translate English version of the extract] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. Article with details of the book [https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/an-european-s-account-of-assam/cid/443929 "An European's account of Assam"] by Arup Kumar Dutta 5.03.12 ''The Telegraph (India)''.
