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Secondary Sources for Scholars

Compiled by Emma Kaneira, under the supervision of Megan Eaton Robb

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“A Calcutta Benefactress.” Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society I. Calcutta Historical Society, July-December 1907, 137-47. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.</p>

Abel, Evelyn. The Anglo-Indian Community: Survival in India. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1988. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Alavi, Seema. “The Eurasian ‘Other’ the British Empire : the case of James Skinner (1802-1840).” Unpublished. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

ʻAli, Karam. “Muzaffarnamah.” Bengal Nawābs. Translated by Jadu Nath Sarkar. Calcutta: 1985. Accessed via Hathitrust. Cited in Robb, 2023.

‘Ali, Yusuf. “Āhwāl-iMahābat Jang.” Bengal Nawābs. Translated by Jadu Nath Sarkar. Calcutta: 1985. Accessed via Hathitrust. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Anderson, Valerie. “The Eurasian Problem in Nineteenth Century India.” PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Anthony, Frank. Britain’s Betrayal in India: The Story of the Anglo-Indian Community. Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1969. Cited in Carton, 2012.

Archer, Mildred. Indian and British Portraiture, 1770-1825. London: Sotherby Parke Benet, 1979. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Archer, Mildred and Toby Falk. India Revealed: The Art and Adventures of James and Wiliam Fraser 1801-35. London: Cassell, 1989.

Archer, Mildred and Toby Falk. The Passionate Quest – The Fraser Brothers in India. Alfalak/Scorpion Publishing Ltd., 1989. Cited in Das, 2005.

Arondekar, Anjali. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. https://doi-org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/10.1215 /9780822391029. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Āzādāl-Husaini. “Naubahār-i-Murshid Quli Khāni” Bengal Nawābs. Translated by Jadu Nath Sarkar. Calcutta: 1985. Accessed via Hathitrust. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Ballhatchet, Kenneth. Race, Sex, and Class Under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics, 1793-1905. Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980.

Banerji, Brajendranth. Begam Samru. Calcutta: M.C. Sarkar and Sons, 1925. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Bayly, C. A. Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Bengal Past & Present 46, 1933. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. LII. Pt. 1, Calcutta Historical Society</i>, 18-22. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. XLIII. Calcutta Historical Society, 150. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. XLVI. Calcutta Historical Society, 1933, 93, 94. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. XXVI. Calcutta Historical Society, 193-22. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. XXVI. Pt. II, ser. no. 52, Calcutta Historical Society, October-December 1923, 151. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. XXX. Calcutta Historical Society, 79-107. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Beveridge, Henry. “Old Places in Murshidabad, No. II.” Calcutta Review 95, no. 190, October 1982, 204.

Bryant, Gerald. "Officers of the East India Company's Army in the Days of Clive and Hastings." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 6.3, 1978. Cited in Wheeler, 2000.

Bullock, Captain J. Statesman. November 13, 1933. Cited in Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. XLVI. Calcutta Historical Society, 1933, 91-2. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Carton, Adrian. Mixed-race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity across Empires. London: Routledge, 2012. https://doi-orgh.ezproxy .cul.columbia.edu/10.4324/9780203121023.

Collingham, E. M. Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c.1800-1947. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001.

Compton, Herbert. A Particular Account of the European Military Adventures of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1976 (reprint). Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Cotton, J.J. “George Chinnery, artist.” Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society XXVII. Pt. II, ser. no. 54, Calcutta Historical Society, April-June 1924, 131-55. Cited in Hawes, 1996. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Dalrymple, William. City of Djinns. London: Flamingo, 1994. Cited in Das, 2005.

Dalrymple, William. White Mughals: The Case of James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair un-Nissa. London: Flamingo, 2002. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Dalrymple, William. “White Mughals.” Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Indrani Chatterjee ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004, 122-160.

Das, Suribhi et al. “Sahibs or Nabobs? Delhi: 1803 - 1856.” Seminar, November 9, 2005.file:///C:/Users/emmak/Downloads/Sahibs_or_Nabobs_Delhi_103_1856.pdf.

Datta, Kalikinkar. Siraj-ud-Daulah. Bombay: 1971. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Dunn, T.O. 'An Anglo-Indian Romance.’ Calcutta Review, 295, Jan. 1919. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

E.J. Thompson. The Life of Charles, Lord Metcalfe. London: 1937. Cited in Hawes, 1996. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Edwardes, Michael. The Sahibs and the Lotus: The British in India. London: Constable, 1988. Cited in Wheeler, 2000. Cited in Das, 2005.

Finn, Margot, and Kate Smith, eds. East India Company at Home, 1757-1857. UCL Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21c4tfn.1. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Finn, Margot. “Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750–1850.” University of Oxford, The James Ford Lectures 2020, 2020.https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/the-james-ford-lectures-race-and-belonging. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Finn, Margot. “Migrating Home: ‘mixed’ children and the return of the nabobs of India.” Our Migration Story. https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/Migrating-home-the-return-of-the-nabobs-of-british-india.

Finn, Margot. “Slaves out of Context: Domestic Slavery and the Anglo-Indian Family, c. 1780-1830.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 19, pp 181-203. Cambridge University Press 19, 2009. https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?&url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25593897.

Fisher, Michael H. “Becoming and Making “Family” in Hindustan.” Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Indrani Chatterjee ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004, 95-121. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Fisher, Michael. Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travelers and Settlers in Britain, 1600– 1857. Delhi: 2004.

Foster, William, ed. Early Travels in India 1583-1619. Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1999. Cited in Sen, 2012.

Ghosh, Durba. Sex and the Family in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Ghosh, Durba. “Making and Un-making Loyal Subjects: Pensioning Widows and Educating Orphans in Early Colonial India.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, January 2003. https://doi-org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/10.1080/714002216. Cited in Carton, 2012.

Ghosh, Suresh Chandra. The Social Condition of the British Community in Bengal, 1757-1800. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970. Cited in Ghosh, 2006. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Gupta, Dipankar. “Caste and Politics: Identity over System.” Annual Review of Anthropology 34, 2005, 409–27. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Gupta, Narayani. Delhi Between Two Empires 1803-1931. Oxford University Press,1981. Cited in Das, 2005.

Hamilton, Alexander. A New Account of the East Indies. 2 vols. Edinburgh: 1727. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Hawes, Christopher J. Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833. Philadelphia: Routledge, 1996. https://doi-org.ezproxy.columbia.edu/10.4324/9781315026565.

Hawkins, William. Early Travels in India 1583-1619. Edited by William Foster. Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1999. Cited in Sen, 2012.

Hodson, Maj. V.C.P. List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758-1834. London: Constable & Co., 1927. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Hyam, Ronald. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. Cited in Sen, 2001.

Kahn, Abdul Majed. The Transition in Bengal, 1756–1775: A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan, Cambridge: 1969. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Ḵẖān, Karam ʻAlī, Shāʼistah. Tārīḵẖ-i Bangāl va Bihār sadah-ʾihīzhdahum: Muẓaffarnāmah. Patna: 1992, 239–40. Accessed via Hathitrust. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Kitson, Peter J. ed. Theories of Race. London: 1999. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Lall, John. Begum Samru: Fading Portrait in a Gilded Frame. New Delhi: Roli Books, 1997. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Llewlleyn-Jones, Rosie. A Very Ingenious Man: Claude Martin in Early Colonial India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Long, James. Calcutta and Its Neighborhood: History of People and Localities from 1690 to 1837. Indian Publications, 1974. Cited in Robb, 1998.

Losty, J.P. Calcutta: City of Palaces, a Survey of the City in the Days of the East India Company, 1690-1858. London: British Library, 1990. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Love, Henry Davidson. Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800: Traced from the East India Company’s Records Preserved at Fort St. George and the India Office, and from Other Sources. Vol. 2. London: Murray, 1913. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

M.M. Kaye ed. The Golden Calm – An English Lady’s Life in Mughal India, Reminiscences by Perry, Thomas. Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in Eighteenth Century England: A Study of the Jew Bill of 1753. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. Cited in Wheeler, 2000. Emily Lady Clive Bayley and by her father sir Thomas Metcalfe. Exeter: Webb and Bower, 1980. Cited in Das, 2005.

Madge, E. W. “Baptisms in Calcutta, 1767-77.” Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society XXV. Calcutta Historical Society, 1923, 131-55. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Madge, E. W. “Baptisms in Calcutta, 1778-82.” Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society XXVI. Calcutta Historical Society, 1923, 142-68. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Mallampalli, Chandra. Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. https://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?qurl=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ebscohost.com%2flogin.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26AuthType%3dip%26db%3de025xna%26AN%3d409087%26site%3dehost-live%26scope%3dsite.

Manuscript. From British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, H/556, 195-235. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Masani, Zaheer. Indian Tales of the Raj. London: BBC Books, 1987. Cited in Sen, 2001.

Mishra, Ratneshwar. History of Purnea, c. 1772–1793. Calcutta: 1978. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Moran, Arik. “‘The Rani of Sirmur’ Revisited: Sati and Sovereignty in Theory and Practice.” Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 2, 2015, 302–35. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Ray, N.R. The City of Job Charnock. Calcutta: Victoria Memorial Library, 1979. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Robb, Megan Eaton. “Becoming Elizabeth: The Transformation of a Bihari Mughal into an English Lady, 1758—1822.” American Historical Review 128, no. 1, March 2023, 144-176. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad008.

Robb, Megan Eaton. “Gendered Archives: Imagined and Physical Digital Spaces.” Unstable Archives, August 16, 2023. unstable-archives.github.io.

Robb, Peter. “Clash of Cultures?: An Englishman in Calcutta in the 1790s.” London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 12 March 1998.

Rothschild, Emma. The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. https://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?qurl=https%3a%2mbia.edu/login?qurl=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ebscohost.com%2flogin.aspx%3fdirect%dtrue%26AuthType%3dip%26db%3de025xna%26AN%3d365136%26site%3dehost-live%26scope%3dsite.

Saroop, Narindar. A Squire of Hindoostan. New Delhi: 1983. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Sen, Amrita. “Early Liaisons: East India Company, Native Wives, and Inscription in the Seventeenth Century.” South Asian Review 33, no. 2, October 2012. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2012.11932880.

Sen, Indrani. “Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900.” Indian Journal of Gender Studies 8, March 2001: accessed June 1, 2023, https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150100800101

Sharma, M.N. The Life and Times of Begam Samru of Sardhana. Sahibabad: 1985. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Speirs, Malcolm. “British Resident, Gwalior.” The Wazikadars of Awadh. Delhi: 2008, xl–xli. Cited in Anderson, 2011. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Spivak, Gayatri. “The Rani of Sirmur: An Essay in Reading the Archives.” History and Theory 24, no. 3, October 1985, 247–72. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Sreenivas, Mytheli. Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

St. Genis. Poiters: 1973. Cited in Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. Vol. XLVI. Calcutta Historical Society, 1933, 91. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Stark, Herbert Alick. Hostages to India, Or The Life Story of the Anglo-Indian Race. Calcutta: The Calcutta Fine Art College, 1926. Cited in Carton, 2012.

Stark, Herbert Alick. John Ricketts and His Times, Being a Narrative Account of Anglo-Indian Affairs During the Eventful Years from 1791 to 1835. Calcutta: Wilstone and Son, 1934. Cited in Carton, 2012.

Strobel, Margaret. Gender, Sex and Empire. Washington, DC: American History Association, 1993. Cited in Sen, 2001.

Stuart, A.F. “'Some Notes on the Position of Early Eurasians.” The Asiatic Quarterly Review, July 1913, 94. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Sykes, John. “Sykes, Sir Francis, First Baronet.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, January 8, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/64747. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Teltscher, Kate. India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600-1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.v

The Āʼīn-i Akbarī [by] Abūʼl-Fazl ʻAllāmī, 2nd ed. S. L. Goomer ed. Translated by H. Blochmann, Delhi: 1965 Cited in Robb, 2023.

“The Begum of Sardhana.” In Calcutta Review. April 1894. 310-26. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

“The Bengal Military Orphan Society.” In Calcutta Review 44. 8, 1867, 151-82, 165. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

The Raj: India and the British. C. A. Bayly, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Visweswaran, Kamala. “Betrayal: An Analysis in Three Acts.” In Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, ed. Minneapolis: 1994, 90–109. Cited in Robb, 2023.

Wheeler, Roxanne. The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture. Philadelphia: 2000. Cited in Robb, 2023.

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Wood, Peter. A Vassal State in the Shadow of Empire: William Palmer’s Bank in Hyperbad, 1810-1824. Ph.D Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1981. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.

Yalland, Zoe. A Guide to the Kacheri Cemetery and the Early History of Kanpur from 1750. Putney: 1983. Cited in Hawes, 1996.

Young, Desmond. Fountain of the Elephants. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. Cited in Ghosh, 2006.