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• History -- Early works to 1800

• A narrative of the transactions in Bengal, from the year 1760, to the year 1764, during the government of Mr. Henry Vansittart : published by himself : in three volumes. (London : Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall; and J. Robson, in Bond-street, MDCCLXVI [1766], 1766), by Henry Vansittart, James Robson, James Dodsley, John Newbery, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Annals of Rural Bengal ("volume 1", second edition; subsequent volumes published as "Orissa"; New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1868), by William Wilson Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760, by Richard M. Eaton (HTML at UC Press)
• A Sketch of the Administration of the Hooghly District from 1795 to 1845, With Some Account of the Early English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and Danish Settlements (Kolkata: Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1888), by G. Toynbee
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• Three Frenchmen in Bengal: or, The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 (1903), by Samuel Charles Hill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Reflections on the government of Indostan. (Printed 1763, reprinted by W. Strahan Jun. for G. Kearsley [etc.], 1770), by Luke Scrafton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Frenchmen in Bengal; or, The commercial ruin of the French settlements in 1757 (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903), by Samuel Charles Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• William Bolts, a Dutch adventurer under John company. (The University press, 1920), by N. L. Hallward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annals of rural Bengal. (Smith, Elder and co., 1897), by William Wilson Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dawn of New India. (M. C. Sarkar & sons, 1927), by Brajendra Nath Banerjee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Considerations on India affairs ; particularly respecting the present state of Bengal and its dependencies (Printed for J. Almon [etc.], 1772), by William Bolts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of the rise, progress, and present state of the English government in Bengal: including a reply to the misprpresentations of Mr. Bolts, and other writers. (J. Nourse [etc.], 1772), by Harry Verelst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early annals of the English in Bengal. (Asiatic Society, 1963), by C. R. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian records, with a commercial view of the relations between the British government and the nawabs nazim of Bengal, Behar and Orissa ... (G. Bubb, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Portuguese in Bengal ... (Butterworth & co., 1919), by J. J. A. Campos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bengal under the lieutenant-governors. (K. Bose, 1902), by Charles Edward Buckland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Interesting historical events relative to the provinces of Bengal and the empire of Indostan, with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company, as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah, and a dissertation on the metempsychosis commonly though erroneously called the Pythagorean doctrine. (T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1765), by J. Z. Holwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life & times of C.R. Das : the story of Bengal's self-expression : being a personal memoir of the late Deshbandhu Chitta Ranjan and a complete outline of the history of Bengal for the first quarter of the twenith century (Oxford University Press, 1927), by Prithwis Chandra Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the writings & speeches. (T.N. Mukerjea, 1924), by Pearay Mohan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bengal chiefs' struggle [for independence in the reign of Akbar & Jahangir] (Calcutta, 1928), by Nalinīkānta Bhaṭṭaśālī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Bengal from the first Mohammedan invasion until the virtual conquest of that country by the English, A.D. 1757. (Sold by Black, Parry, 1813), by Charles Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Select Committee at Fort William in Bengal, 1758 (Bengal Secretariat Record-Room, 1914), by Bengal (India). Select Committee and Walter K. Firminger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• État civil, politique et commerçant, du Bengale; ou, Histoire des conquétes & de l'administration de la Compagnie angloise dans ce pays (Gosse, fils, 1775), by William Bolts and Jean Nicolas Meunier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early annals of the English in Bengal, being the Bengal public consultations for the first half of the eighteenth century, summarised, extracted, and edited with introductions and illustrative addenda. (W. Thacker, 1895), by C. R. Wilson and Bengal (India). Public consultations books (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• India tracts / I, An address to the proprietors of East-India stock; setting forth, the unavoidable necessity, and real motives, for the revolution in Bengal, 1760. II, A refutation of a letter from certain gentlemen of the Council at Bengal, to the honourable the Secret committee. III, Important facts regarding the East-India company's affairs in Bengal, from the years 1752 to 1760, with copies of several very interesting letters. IV, A narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English gentlemen who were suffocated in the Black hole in Fort William, at Calcutta, June 1756. V, A defence of Mr. Vansittart's conduct ... (Printed for T. Becket, 1764), by J. Z. Holwell and Henry Vansittart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bengal in the sixteenth century, A. D. (The University of Calcutta, 1914), by Yogendra-Nātha Dāsa Gupta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conquest of Bengal. (Chuckervertty, Chatterjee, 1926), by Basanta Coomar Bose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Brahmins and pariahs. An appeal by the indigo manufacturers of Bengal to the British government, Parliament, and people, for protection against the lieut.-governor of Bengal (J. Ridgway, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of rural Bengal (Smith, Elder and co., 1868), by William Wilson Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bengal reversion, another "exceptional case." (Trübner, 1872), by Evans Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bengal under the lieutenant-governors; being a narrative of the principal events and public measures during their periods of office, from 1854 to 1898. (S.K. Lahiri, 1901), by Charles Edward Buckland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Bengal : from the first Mohammeden invasion until the virtual conquest of that country by the English, A.D. 1757 (Bangabasi, 1903), by Charles Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A brief history of ancient and modern Bengal for the use of schools. (The Elm Press, 1904), by Romesh Chunder Dutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, Anno. Dom. 1757 (A. Millar, 1760), by John Campbell and William Watts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and ecclesiastical sketches of Bengal, from the earliest settlement, until the virtual conquest of that country by the English, in 1757. (Calcutta, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the transactions in Bengal, during the soobahdaries of Azeem us Shan, Jaffer Khan, Shuja Khan, Sirafraz Khan, and Alyvirdy Khan (From the press of Stuart and Cooper, 1788), by Munshī Salīm Allāh and Francis Gladwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• India tracts, 1772-1782. (Bangabasi Office, 1905), by Warren Hastings and Major Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bengal: an account of the country from the earliest time (Gilbert and Rivington, 1884), by Shoshee Chunder Dutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the proprietors of East-India stock, from Henry Vansittart, occasioned by a late annonymous pamphlet, and by the East India Observer, No. VI. (Printed for J. Newbery [etc.], 1767), by Henry Vansittart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grant of Rothiemurchus; a memoir of the services of Sir John Peter Grant ... (J. Murray, 1899), by W. S. Seton-Karr and George Frederick Watts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des conquetes & de l'administration de la Compagnie Angloise dans ce pays (Chez Jean-Edme Dufour ..., 1775), by William Bolts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notifications and orders, relating to the war, in force in Bengal. (Bengal Secretariat Pr., 1915), by Bengal (India). Legislative Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Riyāz̤ ʼal-salāṭīn : (tārīk︠h︡-i Bingālah) (Maṭbaʻ-i Bīptist Mis︠h︡in, 1890), by -1817 or 1818 Ghulām Ḥusayn Zaydpūrī and ʻAbd ʼal-Ḥaqq ʻĀbid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original papers relative to the disturbances in Bengal; containing every material transaction from 1759 to 1764. (J. Newbery, 1765), by Henry Vansittart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of rural Bengal (Smith, Elder and co., 1871), by William Wilson Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Portuguese in Bengal (AMS Press, 1975), by J. J. A. Campos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• India tracts. (Printed for T. Beckett and P.A. de Hondt, near Surry-street, in the Strand, 1764), by J. Z. Holwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of rural Bengal. (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970), by William Wilson Hunter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La révolte au Bengale en 1857 et 1858 : souvenirs d'un officier irlandais (Mame, 1880), by Arthur Mangin and Daniel O'Bern (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Bengal (Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1890), by -1817 or 1818 Ghulām Ḥusayn Zaydpūrī and ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ʻĀbid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Riyaz̤u-s-salāt̤īn, a history of Bengal (The Asiatic Society, 1902), by called Salīm Ghulām Ḥusain and Abdus Salam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De dansk-ostindiske koloniers historie ... (Centralforlaget, 1907), by Kay Larsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• East India question. Facts and observations intended to convey the opinions of the native population of the territory of Bengal respecting the past and the future. (J. Ridgway, 1833), by H. Newnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coins and chronology of the early independent sultans of Bengal (W. Heffer, 1922), by Nalinīkānta Bhaṭṭaśālī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A narrative of the transactions in Bengal. During the soobahdaries of Azeem-us-Shan, Jaffar Khan, Shuja Khan, Sirafraz Khan and Alyvardy Khan (Press of Stuart & Cooper, 1788), by Munshī Salīm Allāh and Francis Gladwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to Bengal ... (Published under the patronage of the Govt. of Bengal , 1850), by John Clark Marshman, George Turnbull Marshall, and Īśvaracandra Bidyāsāgara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des conquetes et de l'administration de la Compagnie anglaise au Bengale (M. L. Freres, 1858), by William Bolts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pālas of Bengal (Asiatic Society, 1915), by Rakhal Das Banerji (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annals of rural Bengal : [Volume 1. The ethnical frontier of Lower Bengal with the ancient principalities of Beerbhoom and Bishenpore] (Smith, Elder, 1872), by William Wilson Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of rural Bengal (Smith, Elder, 1964), by William Wilson Hunter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Bengal. From the first Mohammedan invasion until the virtual conquest of that country by the English, A.D. 1757. (The "Bengabashi" office, 1910), by Charles Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short review of the transactions in Bengal, during the last ten years (1772-1782) (The Bangabasi Office, 1905), by John Major Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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