Contemporary Accounts (to 1900)

Annual Register
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register [1816-1821]
Asiatic Register
Asiatic Researches
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register
Ceylon Government Gazette [1814-1821]
Edinburgh Review
Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter [1816-1818]
The Naval Chronicle [1799-1818]
Sydney Gazette & New South Wales Advertiser [1803-1822]

Personal Accounts
ALEXANDER, Alexander. The Life of Alexander Alexander Written By Himself. (ed.) John Howell. London: William Blackwood, 1830 [2 vols]. [See: Vol. 1 Chapter 3 pp.102-212 dealing with Alexander's military service in Ceylon].

BERTOLACCI, Anthony. A View of the Agricultural, Commercial and Financial Interests of Ceylon. London: first publ.1817. [Reprint: Dehiwala, Sri Lanka: Tisara Prakasakayo, 1983].

de BUSSCHE, Capt. L. Letters on Ceylon particularly relative to the Kingdom of Kandy. London: Stockdale, 1817. [Reprint: New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1999].

CALLADINE, G. The Diary of Colour-Sergeant George Calladine, 1793-1837. (ed.) M.L. Ferrar. London: Eden Fisher, 1922.

CLEGHORN, Hugh. The Cleghorn Papers: a footnote to history: being the diary 1795-1796 of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithe. (ed.) Wiliam Neil. London: Black, 1927.

CORDINER, Rev. James. A Description of Ceylon: containing an account of the country, inhabitants and natural productions; with narratives of a tour round the island in 1800, the campaign in Candy in 1803, and a journey to Ramisseram in 1804. First publ. London: 1807. [Reprint 1983].

DAVY, John. An Account of the Interior of Ceylon and of Its Inhabitants with Travels in that Island. Dehiwala, Ceylon: Tisara Prakasakayo, 1969. [Orig. publ. 1821].

D'OYLY, John. Diary of Mr. John D'Oyly. Colombo: Navrang, 1995 [reprint] (Orig. publ. in 1917 as a Special Publication issued by Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XXV., No. 69).

FORBES, Major. Eleven Years in Ceylon: comprising sketches of the field sports and natural history of that colony, and an account of its history and antiquities. London: Richard Bentley, 1840.

GRAHAM, Maria. Journal of a Residence in India. Edinburgh: George Ramsay, 1812. [See: pp.85-107].

MARSHALL, Henry. Ceylon: a General Description of the Island and of Its Inhabitants. Dehiwala, Sri Lanka : Tisara Prakasakayo, 1982. [Orig. publ. 1846].

MARSHALL, Henry. Notes on the Medical Topography of the Interior of Ceylon; and on the health of the troops employed in the Kandyan provinces during the years 1815,1816,1817,1818,1819, and 1820 with brief remarks on the prevailing diseases. London: Burgess and Hill, 1821.

A Narrative of Events which have recently occurred in the Island of Ceylon. Written by a Gentleman on the spot. London: 1815. [compilation from the London Gazette and related contemporary newspapers].

VALENTIA, George. Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abysinnia, and Egypt in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806. London: Rivington, 1811. [4 vols.] [Reprint: New Delhi; Asian Educational Services, 1994].

WELSH, James. Military Reminiscences: extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' active service in the East Indies London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1830, 3rd ed. [2 vols].

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