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• Hartly House, Calcutta, by Sophia Goldsborne: A Novel of the Days of Warren Hastings, Reprinted From the Edition of 1789 (reprint of a 1908 annotated edition (Goldsborne is the narrator, not the author); Kolkata: Stamp Digest, 1984), by Phebe Gibbes, ed. by John Macfarlane and Evan Cotton, contrib. by G. F. Barwick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hartly House, Calcutta (3 volumes; London: Printed by J. Dodsley, 1789), by Phebe Gibbes
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
• Hartly House, Calcutta : a novel of the days of Warren Hastings (Thacker, Spink, 1908), by Evan Cotton and John Macfarlane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan (1887 edition), by H. G. Keene (Gutenberg text)
• A Translation of the Sëir Mutaqherin, or, View of Modern Times: Being an History of India, From the Year 1118 to the Year 1194 (This Year Answers to the Christian Year 1781-82) of the Hedjrah (4 volumes; Kolkata: Printed by T. D. Chatterjee, ca. 1902), by Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʼī, trans. by Häji Mustafa
  • Volume I (Sections I-V): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Sections VI-XI): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Sections XII-XVI): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Sections XVII-XVIII, concluding matter, and index): multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of the Late War in Asia; With a Narrative of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Our Officers and Soldiers (2 volumes; London: printed for the author and sold by J. Murray, 1788), by William Thomson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Die Engländer in Indien (Dykische Buchhandlung, 1786), by Robert Orme and Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz (page images at HathiTrust)
• La fin d'un empire français aux Indes sous Louis XV. Lally-Tollendal d'après de documents inédits (E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1887), by Tibulle Hamont (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diaries of three surgeons of Patna, 1763 (Calcutta Historical Society, 1909), by William Fullarton, Peter Campbell, William Anderson, and Walter K. Firminger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Lord Clive (Cassell, 1918), by George Forrest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hindustan under free lances, 1770-1820; sketches of military adventure in Hindustan during the period immediately preceding British occupation. (Brown, Langham, 1907), by H. G. Keene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires historiques de B. F. Mahé de la Bourdonnais, gouverneur des Îles de France et de bourion; recueillis et publiés par son petia-fils: ornés du protrait de l'autcur. (Pélleler et Chatet, 1827), by Bertrand-François Mahé La Bourdonnais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires historiques de B. F. Mahé de la Bourdonnais, gouverneur des Îles de France et de la Réunion; receuillis et publiés par son petit fils. (F. Imbert, 1890), by Bertrand-François Mahé La Bourdonnais (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey of Indian history 1757-1858. (Baroda, 1922), by Keshavial B. Kamdar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An historical relation of the origin, progress, and final dissolution of the government of the Rohilla Afgans in the northern provinces of Hindostan, compiled from a Persian manuscript and other original papers. (Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson's Head, 1787), by Charles Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Fürstentum Sardhana; Geschichte eines deutschen Abenteurers und einer indischen Herrscherin. (Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1906), by Severin Noti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The struggle between England and France for supremacy in India (Trübner, 1887), by E. J. Rapson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warren Hastings (Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Hafiz Ool-Moolk, Hafiz Rehmut Khan written by his son, the Nuwab Moostújab Khan Buhadoor, and entitled Goolistan-i-Rehmut (Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund and sold by J. Murray, 1831), by Bahādur Mustadjāb Khān and Charles Boileau Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires historiques de B.F. Mahé de la Bourdonnais, recueillis et publiés par son petit fils. (F. Imbert, 1890), by Bertrand-François Mahé La Bourdonnais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cassell's illustrated history of India (Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880), by James Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation détaillée de la campagne de M. le Commandeur de Suffren, dans l'Inde du ler Juin 1782 au 29 Septembre suivant. (Cornmarket Press, 1970), by Pierre André de Suffren de Saint-Tropez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• India courier extraordinary. Proceedings of Parliament relating to W. Hastings ([London?], 1786), by Warren Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau religieux et politique de l'Indostan, ou, Précis historique des révolutions de l'Inde ... : suivi de deux mémoires présentés en 1781, à Louis XVI, par l'auteur de cet ouvrage, contenant un plan pour anéantir la puissance anglaise dans l'Inde, et d'un troisième sur les moyens actuels d'y parvenir encore (Marchant, 1803), by Mr C*** (de Courcy) and A. B. de B****** (A. B. de Basselin) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions in India from the commencement of the French War in seventeen hundred and fifty-six to the conclusion of the late peace in seventeen hundred and eighty-three : containing a history of the British interests in Indostan during a period of near thirty years, distinguished by ... the administration of Governor Hastings. (Printed for J. Debrett ..., 1786), by J. Moir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs relative to the state of India. (J. Murray, 1787), by Warren Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• State papers, Fort William. <Secret series.> Warren Hastings (Published for the Record Commission under the sanction of the Govt. of India by O.T. Cutter, 1864), by H. Scott Smith and India. Record Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Robert Lord Clive, Baron Plassey ... With anecdotes of his private life, and the particular circumstances of his death. Also a narrative of all the last transactions in India. (T. Bell, 1786), by Charles Caraccioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Affaires de l'Inde : depuis le commencement de la guerre avec la France en 1756, jusqu'à la conclusion de la paix en 1783 ... (Buisson, 1788), by François Soulés (page images at HathiTrust)
• The siyar-ul-Mutakherin, a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the last century (Murray, 1832), by Ṭabaṭāḅāī Ghulām Husain Khān (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorias de Typpoo-Zaïb, sultan de Masur, ó, Vicisitudes de la India en el Siglo XVIII : procedidas de los establecimientos ingleses y frances sobre aquellas costas (Imprenta Real, 1800), by Fath 'Ali Tipu Sultan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires historiques de B. F. Mahé de la Bourdonnais, gouverneur des Iles de France et de la réunion (A. Savine, 1892), by Bertrand-François Mahé La Bourdonnais and A. Mahé de la Bourdonnais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur la carrière militaire et politique de M. le général comte de Boigne : suivi de notes historiques (Puthod, 1830), by George-Marie Raymond and Société royale académique de Savoie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siyar-ul-Mutakherin (Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1832), by Ṭabaṭāḅāī Ghulām Husain Khān, Häji Mustafa, and John Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Siyar-ul-Mutakherin : a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the last century (Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, 1832), by 1727 or 8- Ghulām-Husain Khān Tabātabāʾi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fall of the Moghul empire : an historical essay : being a new edition of the Moghul empire from the death of Aurungzeb : with many corrections and additions, a map and index (W.H. Allen, 1876), by H. G. Keene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of the days of Warren Hastings, Francis and Impey (Thacker, Spink and Co., 1888), by H. E. Busteed (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Inde en rapport avec l'Europe : ouvrage divisé en deux parties; la première, sur les intérêts politiques de l'Inde; la deuxième, sur le commerce de cette contrée ... (De l'imprimerie de Lesguilliez, Freres, rue de la Harpe, no. 151, 1798), by M. Anquetil-Duperron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the British settlements in India. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855), by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The siyar-mutakherin : a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the eighteenth century (S. N. Basu, 1924), by Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʼī, Häji Mustafa, and John Briggs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ferishta's History of Dekkan, from the first Mahummedan conquests : with a continuation from other native writers of the events in that part of India to the reduction of its last monarchs by the Emperor Aulumgeer Aurungzebe : also, the reigns of his successors in the empire of Hindostan to the present day and the history of Bengal from the accession of Aliverdee Khan to the year 1780 : comprised in six parts (Shrewsbury : Printed by J. and W. Eddowes for John Stockdale ... London, 1794., 1794), by Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah and Jonathan Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago, by J. Biddulph (Gutenberg ebook)

• One of Clive's Heroes: A Story of the Fight for India (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1938), by Herbert Strang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Diary and consultation book, Military Dept., 1752-[1756] (Printed by the Superintendent, Govt. Press, 1910), by Madras (India : State) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An account of the last battle of Panipat : and of the events leading to it (Humphrey Milford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1926), by Kasi Rai and James Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The English in India : from Plassey to Seringapatam ([publisher not identified], 1891), by W. B. Beatson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno Dom. 1757, by William Watts (Gutenberg ebook)

• Śrīmanta Bājīrāva Ballāḷa ūrpha pahile Bājīrāva sāheba Peśve / hā grantha, ... Nāgeśarāva Vināyaka Bāpaṭa. (880-03 Bombay : Published by Tukaram Javaji, proprietor of the Jāvajī Dādājī's Nirnaya-sagara Press, 1895., 1895), by Nāgeśa Vināyaka Bāpaṭa (page images at HathiTrust)

• The struggle between England and France for supremacy in India (Trübner, 1887), by E. J. Rapson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire des voyages, que les Danois ont fait dans les Indes orientales, depuis l'an 1705 jusqu'à la fin de l'année 1736. (chez Henri-Albert Gosse & Comp., 1747), by Johann Lucas Niekamp (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Mr. Dundas's budget speeches on India affairs, from 1790-1800]. ([publisher not identified], 1790), by Henry Dundas (page images at HathiTrust)

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