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Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library (Formerly India Office Library) London

MSS EUR

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James Dalrymple Papers, Mss Eur E 330

Elphinstone Papers, Mss Eur F.88

Fowke Papers, Mss Eur E 6.66

Kirkpatrick Papers, Mss Eur F.228

Sutherland Papers, Mss Eur D.547

Orme Mss

Causes of the Loss of Calcutta 1756, David Renny, August 1756, Mss Eur O.V. 19

Narrative of the Capture of Calcutta from April 10 1756 to November 10 1756, William Tooke, Mss Eur O.V. 19

‘Narrative of the loss of Calcutta, with the Black Hole by Captain Mills, who was in it, and sundry other particulars, being Captain Mills’ pocket book, which he gave me’, Mss Eur O.V. 19

Journal of the Proceedings of the Troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Clive on the expedition to Bengal, Captain Edward Maskelyne, Mss Eur O.V. 20

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Bengal Correspondence

Bengal Public Considerations

Bengal Secret Consultations

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British Library

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Warren Hastings Papers, Add Mss 29,098–29,172

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A. MANUSCRIPTS

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I’tisam al-Din, Shigrif-namah-i Vilayet, Mss Or. 200

Muhammad ‘Ali Khan Ansari of Panipat, Tarikh-i Muzaffari, Mss Or. 466

Roznamcha-i-Shah Alam, Islamic 3921

Shakir Khan, Tārīkh-i Shākir Khānī, Mss Add. 6585

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Azad, Muhammed Husain, trans. and ed. Frances Pritchett and Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Ab-e Hayat: Shaping the Canon of Urdu Poetry, New Delhi, 2001

Beach, Milo Cleveland, and Koch, Ebba, eds, King of the World – the Padshahnama: An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, London, 1997

Begley, W. E., and Desai, Z. A., eds, The Shah Jahan Nama of Inayat Khan, New Delhi, 1990

Bidri, Mohammed Qadir Khan Munshi, Tarikh I Asaf Jahi, trans. Dr Zaibunnisa Begum, written 1266 ah/ad 1851, Hyderabad, 1994

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‘Firaqi’, Kunwar Prem Kishor, Waqa’i-i Alam Shahi, Calcutta, 1949

Ganga Ram, The Maharashtra Purana: An Eighteenth-Century Bengali Historical Text, trans. and ed. Edward C. Dimock Jr and Pratul Chandra Gupta, Honolulu, 1965

Ghalib, Urdu Letters of Mirza Asadu’llah Khan Ghalib, New York, 1987

Gholam Ali Khan, Shah Alam Nama, ed. A. A. M. Suhrawardy and A. M. K. Shiirazi, Calcutta, 1914

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Gladwin, Francis (trans.), The Memoirs of Khojeh Abdulkurreem, Calcutta, 1788

Hasan, Mehdi, Fateh Nawaz Jung, Muraqq-Ibrat, Hyderabad, 1300 ah/ad 1894

Husain, Saiyyad Iltifat, Nagaristan i-Asafi, written c. 1816, printed in Hyderabad, 1900

Islam, Khurshidul, and Russell, Ralph, Three Mughal Poets: Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan, New Delhi, 1991

I’tisam al-Din, The Wonders of Vilayet, being a memoir, originally in Persian, of a visit to France and Britain, trans. Kaiser Haq, Leeds, 2001

Jehangir, The Tuzuk-i Jehangiri or Memoirs of Jehangir, trans. Alexander Rodgers, ed. Henry Beveridge, London, 1909–14

Kamran, Mirza, ‘The Mirza Name: The Book of the Perfect Gentleman’, trans. Mawlavi M. Hidayat Husain, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, New Series, vol. IX, 1913

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Khan, Saqi Must’ad, Maasir-i-Alamgiri, trans. as The History of the Emperor Aurangzeb-Alamgir 1658–1707, Jadunath Sarkar, Calcutta, 1946

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Sadasukh Dihlavi, Munkatab ut-Tawarikh, trans. Sir H. M. Elliot and John Dowson, A History of India as Told By Its Own Historians, 1867–77, vol. VIII

Salim, Allah, A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal, trans. Francis Gladwin, Calcutta, 1788

Shustari, Seyyed Abd al-Latif Shushtari, Kitab Tuhfat al-’Alam, written Hyderabad, 1802 and lithographed Bombay, 1847

Talib, Mohammed Sirajuddin, Mir Alam, Hyderabad

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Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri or Memoirs of Jahanagir, trans. Alexander Rogers, ed. Henry Beveridge, London, 1919

Yusuf Ali Khan, Tarikh-i-Bangala-i-Mahabatjangi, trans. Abdus Subhan, Calcutta, 1982

4. CONTEMPORARY WORKS AND PERIODICAL ARTICLES IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

Anon., Narrative Sketches of the Conquest of Mysore, London, 1800

Andrews, C. F., Zakaullah of Delhi, Cambridge, 1929

Archer, Major, Tours in Upper India, London, 1833

Barnard, Anne, The Letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas from the Cape and Elsewhere 1793–1803, ed. A. M. Lewin Robinson, Cape Town, 1973

Barnard, Anne, The Cape Journals of Lady Anne Barnard 1797–98, ed. A. M. Lewin Robinson, Cape Town, 1994

Bayley, Emily, The Golden Calm: An English Lady’s Life in Moghul Delhi, London, 1980

Bazin, Père Louis, ‘Mémoires sur dernieres années du regne de Thamas Kouli-Kan et sa mort tragique, contenus dans une lettre du Frere Bazin’, 1751, in Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses Ecrites des Mission Etrangères, Paris, 1780, vol. IV

Beatson, Alexander, A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan, London, 1800

Bernier, François, Travels in the Mogul Empire, 1656–68, ed. Archibald Constable, trans. Irving Brock, Oxford, 1934

Bhargava, Krishna Dayal, Browne Correspondence, Delhi, 1960

Blakiston, John, Twelve Years Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe, 2 vols, London, 1829

Blochmann, H., trans. and ed., The A’in-i Akbari by Abu’l Fazl ‘Allami, New Delhi, 1977

Bolts, William, Considerations on Indian Affairs; Particularly Respecting the Present State of Bengal and its Dependencies, 3 vols, London, 1772–5

Bourquien, Louis, ‘An Autobiographical Memoir of Louis Bourquien translated from the French by J.P. Thompson’, in Journal of the Punjab Historical Society, vol. IX, part 7, 1923

Burke, Edmund, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, ed. P. J. Marshall, 6 vols, Oxford, 1991

Caillaud, John, A Narrative of What Happened in Bengal in the Year 1760, London, 1764

Colebrook, Sir T. E., The Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone, 2 vols, London, 1884

‘Cooke’s Evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Commons’, in W. K. Firminger, ed., Great Britain, House of Commons, Report on East India Affairs, Fifth Report from the Select Committee, vol. III, 1812

Dalrymple, Alexander, A Retrospective View of the Antient System of the East India Company, with a Plan of Regulation, London, 1784

Dalrymple, James, Letters &c Relative To The Capture of Rachore by Capt. James Dalrymple, Madras, 1796

D’Oyly, Charles, The European in India, London, 1813

Dow, Alexander, History of Hindostan, 3 vols, Dublin, 1792

Duff, Grant, A History of the Mahrattas, 2 vols, London, 1826

Entick, The Late Reverend John, et al., The Present State of the British Empire, 4 vols, London, 1774

Fenton, Elizabeth, The Journal of Mrs Fenton, London, 1901

Firminger, Walter K., and Anderson, William, The Diaries of Three Surgeons of Patna, Calcutta, 1909

Foster, William, ed., The English Factories in India 1618–1669, 13 vols, London, 1906–27

Foster, William, ed., Early Travels in India 1583–1619, London, 1921

Foster, Sir William, The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India 1615–9, as Narrated in his Journal and Correspondence, New Delhi, 1990

Francklin, William, The History of Shah Alam, London, 1798

Francklin, William, Military Memoirs of Mr George Thomas Who by Extraordinary Talents and Enterprise rose from an obscure situation to the rank of A General in the Service of Native Powers in the North-West of India, London, 1805

Fraser, James, The History of Nadir Shah, London, 1742

Fraser, James Baillie, Military Memoirs of Lt. Col. James Skinner C.B., 2 vols, London, 1851

Fryer, Dr John, A New Account of East India and Persia Letters Being Nine Years Travels Begun 1672 and finished 1681, 3 vols, London, 1698

Gentil, Jean-Baptiste, Mémoires sur l’Indoustan, Paris, 1822

George III, ed. J. Fortescue, Correspondence of George III, 1760–1783, 6 vols, 1927–8

Green, Jack, Arenas of Asiatic Plunder, London, 1767

Hamilton, Alexander, A New Account of the East Indies, 2 vols, London, 1930

Hanway, Jonas, An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea … to which are added The Revolutions of Persia during the present Century, with the particular History of the great Userper Nadir Kouli, 4 vols, London, 1753

Hastings, Warren, ed. G. R. Gleig, Memoirs of the Life of the Rt Hon Warren Hastings, First Governor General of Bengal, 3 vols, London, 1841

Heber, Reginald, A Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824–1825, 3 vols, London, 1827

Hickey, William, The Memoirs of William Hickey, ed. Alfred Spencer, 4 vols, London, 1925

Hill, S. C., Bengal in 1756–7, 3 vols, Indian Records Series, Calcutta, 1905

Hollingbery, William, A History of His Late Highness Nizam Alee Khaun, Soobah of the Dekhan, Calcutta, 1805

Holwell, John Zephaniah, A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, in Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal; in the Night Succeeding the 20th June 1756, London, 1758

Hunter, W. W., The Annals of Rural Bengal, London, 1868

Jones, Sir William, The Letters of Sir William Jones, ed. Garland Canon, 2 vols, Oxford, 1970

Jourdain, John, Journal of John Jourdain 1608–17, ed. W. Foster, London, 1905

Kaye, John W., The Life and Correspondence of Sir John Malcolm GCB, 2 vols, London, 1856

Kindersley, Mrs Jemima, Letters from the East Indies, London, 1777

Kirkpatrick, William, Diary and Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan, London, 1804

Lauriston, Jean Law de, A Memoir of the Mughal Empire 1757–61, trans. G. S. Cheema, New Delhi, 2014

Linschoten, J. H. Van, The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies, 2 vols, London, 1885 (original Dutch edn 1598)

Lockyer, Charles, An Account Of The Trade With India Containing Rules For Good Government In Trade, And Tables: With Descriptions Of Fort St. George, Aheen, Malacca, Condore, Anjenjo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telicherry, Panola, Calicut, The Cape Of Good Hope, And St Helena Their Inhabitants, Customs, Religion, Government Animals, Fruits &C., London, 1711

Lushington, Rt Hon. S. R., The Life and Services of Lord George Harris GCB, London, 1840

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, ‘Warren Hastings’, in The Historical Essays of Macaulay, ed. Samuel Thurber, Boston, 1892

Madec, René-Marie, Mémoire, ed. Jean Deloche, Pondicherry, 1983

Majumdar, J. K. (ed.), Raja Rammohun Roy and the Last Moghuls: A Selection from Official Records (1803–1859), Calcutta, 1939

Malcolm, Sir John, Sketch of the Political History of India from the Introduction of Mr Pitts Bill, London, 1811

Malcolm, Sir John, Political History of India, 2 vols, London, 1836

Malcolm, Sir John, Life of Robert, Lord Clive, London, 1836

Mandelslo, J. A. de, The Voyages and Travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia, trans. John Davis, London, 1662

Manucci, Niccolao, Storia do Mogor, or Mogul India, 1653–1708, 2 vols, trans. William Irvine, London, 1907

Methwold, William, ‘Relations of the Kingdome of Golchonda and other neighbouring Nations and the English Trade in Those Parts, by Master William Methwold’, in W. H. Moreland, Relations of Golconda in the early Seventeenth Century, London, 1931

Modave, Comte de, Voyage en Inde du Comte de Modave, 1773–1776, ed. Jean Deloche, Pondicherry, 1971

Moor, Edward, A Narrative of the Operations of Captain Little’s Detachment, London, 1794

Nugent, Lady Maria, Journal of a Residence in India 1811–15, vol. 2, London, 1839

Parkes, Fanny, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, London, 1850

Pellow, Thomas, The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner, ed. Robert Brown, London, 1890

Polier, Antoine, Shah Alam II and his Court, Calcutta, 1947

Pownall, Thomas, The Right, Interest and Duty of Government, as concerned in the affairs of the East India Company, revised edn, 1781

Price, David, Memoirs of the Early Life and Service of a Field Officer on the Retired List of the Indian Army, London, 1839

Price, Joseph, Five Letters from a Free Merchant in Bengal, to Warren Hastings Esq, London, 1778

Price, Joseph, The Saddle Put on the Right Horse, London, 1783

Purchas, Samuel, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Contayning a History of the World, 20 vols, Glasgow, 1905

Rennell, James, The Marches of the British Armies in the Peninsula of India, London, 1792

Roe, Sir Thomas, and Fryer, Dr John, Travels in India in the 17th Century, London, 1873

Row, T. Venkatasami, A Manual of the District of Tanjore in the Madras Presidency, Madras, 1883

Sarker, Jadunath, ed., English Records of Mahratta History: Poona Residency Correspondence, vol. 1, Mahadji Scindhia and North Indian Affairs 1785–1794, Bombay, 1936

Sarkar, Jadunath, trans. and ed., ‘Haidarabad and Golkonda in 1750 Seen Through French Eyes: From the Unpublished Diary of a French Officer Preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris’, in Islamic Culture, vol. X, p. 24

Saxena, V. K., ed., Speeches on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 2 vols, Delhi, 1987

Scrafton, Luke, Observations on Vansittart’s Narrative, London, 1770

Scurry, James, The Captivity, Sufferings and Escape of James Scurry, who was detained a prisoner during ten years, in the dominions of Haidar Ali and Tippoo Saib, London, 1824

Sen, S., Indian Travels of Thevenot and Careri, New Delhi, 1949

Sleeman, Major General Sir W. H., Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, Oxford, 1915

Smith, Adam, The Correspondence of Adam Smith, ed. E. C. Mossner and I. S. Ross, 2nd edn, Oxford, 1987

Sramek, Joseph, Gender, Morality, and Race in Company India, 1765–1858, New York, 2011

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Stevens, Henry, The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies, as Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India Company 1599–1603, Containing an Account of the Formation of the Company, London, 1866

Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, Travels in India, trans. V. Ball, ed. Wm Crooke, 2 vols, Oxford, 1925

Temple, Richard Carnac, The Diaries of Streynsham Master, 1675–1680, 2 vols, London, 1911

Thorn, Major William, Memoir of the War in India Conducted by Lord Lake and Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley on the Banks of the Hyphasis, London, 1818

Vansittart, Henry, A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal from the Year 1760, to the year 1764, during the Government of Mr Henry Vansittart, 3 vols, London, 1766

Walpole, Horace, ed. W. S. Lewis et al., The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, 48 vols, New Haven, CT, 1937–83

Watts, William, and Campbell, John, Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno. Dom. 1757, London, 1758

Welsh, James, Military Reminiscences Extracted from a Journal of Nearly Forty Years Active Service in the East Indies, 2 vols, London, 1830

Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, edited by his son, the 2nd Duke of Wellington, 15 vols, London, 1858–72

Wellesley, Richard, Marquess Wellesley, The Despatches, Minutes and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley KG during his Administration of India, 5 vols, ed. Montgomery Martin, London, 1840

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Wilkin, Captain W. H., The Life of Sir David Baird, London, 1912

Wilks, Mark, Historical Sketches of the South of India, vol. 2, 1820

Williamson, Captain Thomas, The East India Vade Mecum, 2 vols, London, 1810, 2nd edn, 1825

Young, Arthur, Political Essays concerning the present state of the British Empire, London, 1772

Yule, Henry, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, London, 1903

5. SECONDARY WORKS AND PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Ahmed Aziz, Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment, Oxford, 1964

Alam, Muzaffar, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab 1707–1748, New Delhi, 1986

Alam, Muzaffar, and Alavi, Seema, A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The I’jaz-I Arslani (Persian Letters, 1773–1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier, New Delhi, 2001

Alam, Muzaffar, and Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, Writing the Mughal World, New York, 2012

Alam, Shah Manzur, ‘Masulipatam: A Metropolitan Port in the Seventeenth Century’, in Mohamed Taher, ed., Muslim Rule in Deccan, New Delhi, 1997

Alavi, Seema, The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770–1830, Delhi, 1995

Alavi, Seema, ed., The Eighteenth Century in India, New Delhi, 2002

Ali, M. Athar, ‘The Passing of an Empire: The Mughal Case’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 9, no. 13 (1975)

Arasaratnam, Sinnappah, and Ray, Aniruddha, Masulipatam and Cambay: A History of Two Port Towns 1500–1800, New Delhi, 1994

Archer, Mildred, Company drawings in the India Office Library, London, 1972

Archer, Mildred, and Falk, Toby, India Revealed: The Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser 1801–35, London, 1989

Avery, Peter, Hambly, Gavin, and Melville, Charles, The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 7, From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic, Cambridge, 1991

Axworthy, Michael, The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant, New York, 2006

Axworthy, Michael, Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day, London, 2007

Ballhatchet, Kenneth, Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics 1793–1905, London, 1980

Barnett, Richard, North India Between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals and the British, 1720–1801, Berkeley, 1980

Barrow, Ian, ‘The many meanings of the Black Hole of Calcutta’, in Tall Tales and True: India, Historiography and British Imperial Imaginings, ed. Kate Brittlebank, Clayton, Vic., 2008

Baugh, Daniel, The Global Seven Years War, 1754–63, New York, 2014

Bayly, C. A., ‘Indian Merchants in a “Traditional” Setting. Banaras, 1780–1830’, in Clive Dewey and A. J. Hopkins, eds, The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of India and Africa, London, 1978

Bayly, C. A., Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, Cambridge, 1983

Bayly, C. A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Cambridge, 1988

Bayly, C. A., Imperial Meridian: the British Empire and the World 1780–1830, London, 1989

Bayly, C. A., Empire &Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India 1780–1870, Cambridge, 1996

Bence-Jones, Mark, Palaces of the Raj, London, 1973

Bence-Jones, Mark, Clive of India, London, 1974

Bernstein, Jeremy, Dawning of the Raj: The Life & Trials of Warren Hastings, Chicago, 2000

Bhargava, Meena, The Decline of the Mughal Empire, New Delhi, 2014

Blake, Stephen P., Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India, 1639–1739, Cambridge, 1991

Bowen, H. V., ‘Lord Clive and speculation in East India Company stock, 1766’, Historical Journal, vol. 30, no.4 (1987)

Bowen, H. V., Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British Politics, 1757–1773, Cambridge, 1991

Bowen, H. V., ‘British India, 1765–1813: The Metropolitan Context’, in P. J. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century, Oxford, 1998

Bowen, H. V., The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756–1833, Cambridge, 2006

Brenner, Robert, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London’s Overseas Traders, 1550–1653, Princeton, 2003

Brett-James, Antony, ed., Wellington at War, 1794–1815: A Selection of His Wartime Letters, London, 1961

Briggs, Henry, The Nizam: His History and Relations with the British Government, London, 1861

Brittlebank, Kate, Tipu Sultan’s Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain, New Delhi, 1997

Bryant, G. J., The Emergence of British Power in India 1600–1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation, Woodbridge, 2013

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