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| Tarikh-i Hindi (1739) | Nadir Shah's sack of Delhi |
| Robert Clive (1744-45) | Unhappines in India, letter to cousin |
| Montesquieu (1748) | Spirit of Laws, 5: Commerce, old & new re. India |
| Robert Clive (1749) | Letter, on first military action |
| Anonymous (1751) | Diary entry on Clive's capture of Arcot |
| Henry Lord (1752) | The Sect of the Persees (Zoroastrian Parsis) |
| French Council (1756) | Report on Sirajjuddaulah's siege of Calcutta |
| Robert Clive (1757) | Letters to (a) , (b), (c), Battle of Plassey & extracts |
| Robert Clive (1759) | Suggesting direct rule over Bengal |
| Voltaire (1764) | Brahmins entry in 'Dictionnaire' |
| Nur Muhammad (1764) | Jang Namah, Ahmad Shah campaign on Sikhs |
| The Court of Directors (1765) | Letter to Clive on growing chaos in Bengal |
| Emperor Shah Alam (1765) | Grant of diwani to E.India Company in Bengal |
| E. India Company (1765) | Treaties with nawabs of Awadh, and Bengal |
| E. India Company Act (1767) (73) | |
| Anonymous (1773 c.) | Description of Fort St. David |
| Warren Hastings (1773-77) | Letters, Bengal gov, law, India: conditions, politics |
| Dean Mahomet (1769-84) | Letters, Muslim in British army, later travels UK |
| Edmund Burke (1783) | On Mr Foxes East India Bill |
| Sir William Jones (1784) | Discourse on setting up Asiatick Society (Calcutta) |
| East India Company Act (1784) | |
| Sir William Jones (1785) | Address to Asiatick Society (Calcutta) |
| Edmund Burke (1785) | The Nabob of Arcot's debts |
| Earl Cornwallis (1786) | To Duke of York, on 'The British Army in India', |
| Sir William Jones (1787) | On the Arabs |
| Sir Wiliam Jones (1786) | On the Hindus |
| Edmund Burke (1788) | On Moving the impeachment of Hastings, ditto |
| Earl Cornwallis (1789) | Letter to Court of Directors, (1793) |
| Sir William Jones (1792) | The origin and families of nations |
| Sir William Jones (1793) | On Asiatick history, civil and natural |
| Wellesley (1800) | Administrative structures review |
| Lalon Fakir (1800 c.) | Baul songs |
| Dubois (1806) | Hindu Manners, Customs & Ceremonies excerpts |
| Martyn (1809) | Letters from North India, re. Christian prospects |
| Marquess of Hastings (1818) | Letter, to the Court of Directors |
| Davy (1819) | Impressions of Kataragama (Sri Lanka) |
| Rammohan Roy (1820) | On Sati (Widow burning), also |
| Rammohan Roy (1820 c.) | Against idolatry |
| Elphinstone (1821) | Territories Conquered from the Peshwa, Marathas |
| Rammohan Roy (1823) | Letter, to Governor-General on education |
| Bentinck (1829) | On the suppression of 'Sati' |
| Condor (1831) | The Modern Traveler (Zoroastrian Parsis) |
| Macaulay (1833) | India, E.India Company, trade - in Parliament, ditto |
| Government of India Act (1833) | |
| Macaulay (1835) | Minute on Indian education, ditto |
| Pfander (1835) | Mizanu'l Haqq 'The Balance of Truth' |
| Pamphlet (1839) | (Indian) coolies in Guiana/Mauritius |
| Lieutenant Holdsworth (1839) | The Battle of Kelat |
| Macaulay (1840) | Lord Clive, 'Edinburgh Review' > 'Historical Essays', inc. Black Hole of Calcutta |
| Sir Charles Napier (1842) | On the occupation of Sind |
| Macaulay (1840) | Warren Hastings, Edinburgh Review > Historical Essays |
| Batchelor (1843) | Letter on 'Oriental Missions', MOA |
| Martyn (1844) | Christianity in North India, MOA |
| The Living Age (1844) | India and the British conquest, MOA |
| Whelpley (1845) | The Hindoos. their laws, customs and religion, MOA |
| Muir (1845) | The Mahommedan controversey, ditto |
| Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) | Declaration of War, Treaty of Lahore |
| Baker (1843-52) | 8 Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, ditto 'Gutenberg..', ditto |
| International Magazine of Literature, Arts and Science (1851) | Sir Emerson Tennant on the American Missions to Ceyon |
| Marx (1853) | British rule in India, cont. |
| East India Company (1854) | Education Dispatch |
| Ramalingar [1823-74] | Aani Pon Ambalattae 'Hall of Solid Gold', ditto |
| Earl of Dalhousie (1856) | Commenting on his administration of India |
| Palmer (1857) | India...Romantic aspects, esp. 2: I, II, III, IV, V, VI. |
| Underhill (1857) | Indian Baptist Missions, MOA |
| Lakshmibai (1857-58) | Rani of Jhansi, docuements to and from her |
| Elisa Greathed (1857 | Indian Mutiny, outbreak at Meerut, May |
| Lord Roberts (1857) | Siege of Delhi May-June, reminiscences |
| U.S Democratic Review (1857) | The course of empire in British India, August |
| Blackwood's Magazine (1857) | The mutiny in Bengal, September |
| Marx (1857) | The Indian revolt, September |
| The Living Age (1857) | Misgovernment of India, October |
| The Living Age (1857) | Reconquest of India, October |
| Hazewell (1857) | British India, in 'The Atlantic', November |
| Lowell (1857) | Relief of Lucknow poem, ditto, November |
| Hazewell (1857) | The Indian Revolt, in 'The Atlantic', December |
| Vishnu Godse (1858 c.) | Jhansi massacres, recollections, use left hand button |
| Parliamentary debates (1858) | East India Company, Palmerston, Lewis, Smith |
| Government of India Act (1858) | |
| North American Review (1858) | The rebellion in India |
before 1740 E SOUTH ASIA - PRIMARY SOURCES F 1858 onwards
Britain & India E HOMEPAGES F East-West encounters