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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India Governor-General of India] Wikipedia
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors-General_of_India List of Governors-General of India]
:: Note it appears that the Earl Of Elgin arrived in January 1894, not the date 11 October 1894 stated in the Wikipedia article.
===Historical books online===
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746893?urlappend=%3Bseq=277 Private Secretary to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viceroy of India] [from 1888] page 233 ''The life of Major-General Sir John Ardagh, by his wife Susan, Countess of Malmesbury (Lady Ardagh)'' 1908 HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176323/page/n3 ''Lord Lansdowne: a Biography''] by Lord Newton 1929. Archive.org. Also available [http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/3427 Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi<nowiki>]</nowiki> Digital Repository].
*[https://archive.org/details/fishingfleethusb0000deco/page/152 "The Viceroy’s Daughter. Elizabeth Bruce"] page 153 ''The Fishing Fleet : Husband-Hunting in the Raj'' by Anne De Courcy 2013 edition, first published 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Daughter of the Earl of Elgin, she was sixteen and a half (born September 1877) when she arrived in January 1894 and commenced comprehensive diaries. She married in India in September 1898.
*''Speeches of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor General of India'' [https://archive.org/details/speeches00curzgoog ''[Volume I<nowiki>]</nowiki>: 1898-1901''], [https://archive.org/details/speeches01curzgoog ''Volume II: 1900-1902''] Archive.org. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Curzon,_1st_Marquess_Curzon_of_Kedleston Lord Curzon] was in this position 1899-1905.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924021025436 ''Lord Curzon in India, 1898-1903''] by H Caldwell Lipsett 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shamefulflightla00wolp ''Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India''] by Stanley A. Wolpert 2006 Archive.org Lending Library. Wolpert places the blame for the catastrophe largely on Mountbatten.
*[https://archive.org/details/princelyindiaikn0000corf/page/n7 ''The Princely India I knew, from Reading to Mountbatten''] by Sir Conrad Corfield, former Political Adviser to the Viceroy. 1975 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Published by the Indo British Historical Society. The author was the last official head of the Indian Political Service, which he had joined in 1925 after preliminary service in the Punjab Province from 1921.
*''The Viceroys and Governors-General of India, 1757-1947'' by Viscount Mersey 1949. [https://archive.org/details/viceroysgovernor0000mers/page/n7 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library version] with better images. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.1808/page/n7 Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/viceroysofindia00benc ''The Viceroys of India''] by Mark Bence-Jones 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
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