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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xSNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Abolition of the bonus system in the Indian Army''] compiled by Lt.-Col. J.C. Phillips, retired list, late Bengal Army. 1869 Google Books
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1880-the-victoria-cross-in-the-colonies-and-gallant-sepoys-and-soward-by-knollys-s-pdf/ ''The Victoria Cross in the Colonies and Gallant Sepoys and Sowars''] by William Wallingford Knollys. Catalogued 1880. (Note: catalogued title includes ''Soward''.) Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Part of the series ''Deeds of Daring Library''. Includes details of the Victoria Cross awarded in India after the Indian Mutiny. First part to page 85, 2nd part to page 176. ''Gallant Sepoys and Sowars'' was issued as a separate publication c 1882, probably in an extended form, with W. J. Elliot as an additional author.
*Series title ''Her Majesty's Army. Indian and Colonial Forces : ; a descriptive account of the various regiments now comprising the Queen's forces in India and , from their first establishment to the coloniespresent time'' , by Walter Richards c 1891. In Two Divisions. The book file consists of a digitized microfilm, and the illustrations, which appear at the front of each volume are of poor quality. [https://archive.org/details/cihm_32280 Divdli. I] Text continues to page 192venugopal. [https:405//archive.org/details/cihm_32281 Div. II] Text commences [https://archive.org/stream/cihm_32281#page/n31n1/mode/2up [Volume III<nowiki>]</nowiki> page 193''Her Majesty's Army: Indian And Colonial Forces'']With Coloured Illustrations. [https://archive.org/streamdetails/cihm_32281#page/n218dli.venugopal.402/mode/1up Index2up 2nd file, Vol III] and [https://archivec 1891 Archive.org/stream/cihm_32281#page/n226/mode/1up Contents]. Volume 1 is the relevant volume for the Indian Army, K. ArchiveK.orgVenugopal Collection.
*[https://archive.org/stream/armybookforbrit00daltgoog#page/n472/mode/2up "Part III The Army in India and Colonial Forces"] page 442 ''The Army Book for the British Empire: A Record of the Development and Present Composition of the Military Forces and their Duties in Peace and War'' by William Howley Goodenough R A and James Cecil Dalton R A. 1893. HMSO. Archive.org. Includes Indian Army.
*''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India''. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Army Headquarters, India. c 1907-11. ''Volumes 1-3'', see [[North West Frontier Campaigns]]. ''Volumes 4 and 7'', see [[Assam]]. [https://archive.org/details/frontieroverseas05indi ''Volume 5: Burma''] 1907 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/frontieroverseas06indi ''Volume 6: Expeditions Overseas'']. 1911 Archive.org. Africa and the Mediterranean. Persia and Arabia. Ceylon and the Islands of the Indian Ocean. The Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. China.
*''Life of Lord Kitchener'' by Sir Arthur George 1920. ([https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche01arthuoft/page/n6 Volume I]); [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche02arthuoft/page/n8 Volume II], including [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche02arthuoft/page/114 pages 114-284] Commander-in Chief in India, 1902-1909. ([https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche03arthrich/page/n8 Volume III]) Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/kitchener00balliala/page/n5 ''Kitchener''] by Brig.-General C R Ballard. A book in the series ''Private Lives Library''. Probably a 1936 reprint, originally published 1930. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.824/page/n17/mode/2up “The Simplicity of Yesterday”] by Field–Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck page 8 ''The Times of India Annual 1949''. Note missing pages 11-12. Then continues [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.824/page/n73/mode/2up page 77] and pages 79 and 81. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. This volume is also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002827019 . Auchinleck joined the 62nd Punjabis in 1904. The latter pages include details about the structure of a regiment c 1904, and the training of men.
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeinindianoutp00cassiala/page/n9 ''Life in an Indian Outpost''] [Buxa Duar, North East India] by Major Gordon Casserly, Indian Army, first published c 1910. Archive.org. Also see Fiction, below.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER197595 ''The Indian Army A B C : being a record of some of those depressing events that occur in the daily life of every Officer of the Indian Army''] by Myauk [John William Jerome Alves] 1915. With download link, State Library of Victoria. [http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/87039 Direct link]. The quoit mentioned in Q for Quoit is known as a Chakram or Chakkar. [http://www.whoosh.org/issue8/rudnick6.html 'What The Heck Is A Chakram, Anyway?"] by Bret Ryan Rudnick.
