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File AvailableParks, F. 1851 Asiatic gallery, Baker Street Bazar, Portman Square: Grand moving diorama of Hindostan, displaying the scenery of the Hoogly, the Bhagirathi, and the Ganges, from Fort William, Bengal to Gangoutri, in the Himalaya. London, Asiatic Gallery, pp. 1-69
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Fanny Parks

Full: Frances Susanna, born Archer, (1794-1875)
Married to Charles Crawford Parks (1797-1854)
Surname also spelled Parkes
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Parks-8438
Lived in Calcutta, Allahabad, Kanpur

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File AvailableRohilla 1848 Sporting rambles. India Sporting Review 7 (March-June 1848): 207-233
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File AvailableAnonymous 1842 Guide for parties proceeding by the Honorable Company's inland flats and steamers. Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer 1: 30-40
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[35] 21 miles above Rajmahal and 2 miles below Sukreegullee hill and point is the beautiful Mootee Jhurna waterfall: it is visible on the eastern side of the hills. At Sukreegullee point is an Indigo Factor's bungalow; would be an excellent shooting box: bears, tigers, rhinoceros, leopards, a...
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File AvailableMartin, R.M. 1838 The history, antiquities, topography, and statistics of Eastern India, vol. 1: Behar (Patna City) and Shahabad. London, W.H. Allen and Co.
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File AvailableCaunter, H.; Daniell, W. 1834 The oriental annual, or scenes in India. Comprising twenty-five engravings from original drawings by William Daniell. London, Bull and Churton vol. 1, pp. 1-254
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File AvailableMundy, G.C. 1832 Pen and pencil sketches, being the journal of a tour in India. London, John Murray, 2 vols.
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p.181 – February [year?] – reached the Colgong Rocks.
At the foot of these mountains [Rajemal hills] there is to be had some of the finest shooting in India. In the thickest of the forest the rhinoceros revels in his native swamps. Lord Hastings, with a large party of friends, made a sport...
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File AvailableHamilton, W. 1828 Purneah [rhino shot in 1810]. In: East Indian Gazetteer, vol. 2, pp. 429-435
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In this district wild elephants have been very destructive, ruining fields and villages every year, to the great disgrace of the police. In 1810 a rhinoceros made bis appearance in the marshy woods of the south ; but fortunately he thrust himself on the premises of an indigo planter, and was shot.
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File AvailableForrest, Charles R. 1824 A picturesque tour along the river Ganges and Jumna, in India: consisting of twenty-four highly finished and coloured views, a map, and vignettes, from original drawings made on the spot: with illustrations, historical and descriptive. London, R. Ackermann
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[133] In expectation of some sport, being now in the vicinity of the Rajmahal Hills, a group of mountains, which in this part separates the provinces of Bengal and bahar, we halted one entire day at the village of Fathipore, and having procured from thence a shekarri, or in plain English, a poach...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1821 Hunting excursion (in Rajmahal Hills). Asiatic Journal December 1821: 581
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HUNTING EXCURSlON.
By letters from the Governor General's Camp, down to the 15th Dec. [1820], we are made acquainted with the events of the excursion to that date ; but the interesting particulars that they contain are rather scanty. The following are extracts:
Camp near Maharajpoor, De...
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