1. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library (Formerly India Office Library) London
MSS EUR
‘Incomplete Draft (1785) of an account of the Mysore War (1780–84)’, Mss Eur K 116
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
Home Miscellaneous
Bengal Correspondence
Bengal Public Considerations
Bengal Secret Consultations
Bengal Wills 1780–1804 L/AG/34/29/4-16
Bengal Regimental Orders IOR/P/BEN/SEC
Bengal Political Consultations IOR/P/117/18
British Library
‘An Account Of The Capture Of Calcutta By Captain Grant’, Add Mss 29200
Warren Hastings Papers, Add Mss 29,098–29,172
Anderson Papers, Add Mss 45,427
Brit Mus Egerton MS 2123
Wellesley Papers, Add Mss 37,274–37,318
Devon Records Office, Exeter
Kennaway Papers B 961M ADD/F2
Archives Départementales de la Savoie, Chambéry, France
De Boigne archive
National Army Museum Library, London
The Gardner Papers, NAM 6305–56
National Library of Wales
Robert Clive Papers, GB 0210 ROBCL1
Pasadena Library
Letters of Thomas Roe to Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon, Hastings Collection
Punjab Archives, Lahore
Delhi Residency Papers
Scottish Records Office, Registrar House, Edinburgh
The Will of Lieut. Col. James Dalrymple, Hussein Sagar, December 8 1800: GD 135/2086
Letters of Stair Dalrymple, Hamilton-Dalrymple Mss
National Library of Scotland
The Papers of Alexander Walker, NLS 13,601–14,193
National Archives of India, New Delhi
Secret Consultations
Political Consultations
Foreign Consultations
Foreign Miscellaneous
Letters from Court
Secret Letters to Court
Secret Letters from Court
Political Letters to Court
Political Letters from Court
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Private Archives
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The Kirkpatrick Papers, London
2. UNPUBLISHED MSS AND DISSERTATIONS
Chander, Sunil, From a Pre-Colonial Order to a Princely State: Hyderabad in Transition, c1748–1865, unpublished Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1987
Ghosh, Durba, Colonial Companions: Bibis, Begums, and Concubines of the British in North India 1760–1830, unpublished Ph.D., Berkeley, 2000
Kaicker, Abhishek, Unquiet City: Making and Unmaking Politics in Mughal Delhi, 1707–39, unpublished Ph.D., Columbia, 2014
Rothschild, Emma, ‘The East India Company and the American Revolution’, unpublished essay
3. PERSIAN, URDU, BENGALI & TAMIL SOURCES
A. MANUSCRIPTS
Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library (Formerly India Office Library) London
Tarikh-i-Alamgir Sani, Mss Or. 1749
(This manuscript has apparently no author name, nor date of composition, nor introduction)
Fakir Khair ud-Din, ‘Ibrat Nama, Mss Or. 1932
Ghulam Ali Khan alias Bhikhari Khan, Shah Alam Nama, Mss Add 24080
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
Private Collection, Hyderabad
Tamkin Kazmi, edited and expanded by Laeeq Salah, Aristu Jah (unpublished Urdu biography, written c. 1950 and re-edited by Laeeq Salah, c. 1980)
MAAPRI Research Institute Library, Tonk, Rajasthan
Munshi Mohan Lal, Shah Alam Nama, Tonk Mss 3406
B. PUBLISHED TEXTS
Abu’l Fazl, Ain-I-Akbari, 3 vols, trans. H. Blochman and H. S. Jarrett, written c. 1590, Calcutta, 1873–94
Ali, Karam, ‘The Muzaffarnama of Karam Ali’, in Bengal Nawabs, trans. Jadunath Sarkar, Calcutta, 1952
Allah, Salim, A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal, trans. Francis Gladwin, Calcutta, 1788
Anon., The Chronology of Modern Hyderabad from 1720 to 1890, Hyderabad, 1954
Astarabadi, Mirza Mahdi, Tarikh-e Jahangosha-ye Naderi: The official history of Nader’s reign, Bombay lithograph, 1265 ac/ad 1849
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
Khan, Syed Ghulam Hussain Tabatabai, Seir Mutaqherin or Review of Modern Times, 4 vols, Calcutta, 1790
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
Buchan, James, John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century, London, 2019
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