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Historical books online
===Pusa===
Pusa is located in Bihar, previously part of the Bengal Presidency, and is now an Agricultural Research Institute.<ref> [http://www.iari.res.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=456&Itemid=1247 IARI Regional Station, Pusa (Bihar)] iari.res.in</ref>
<br>Articles*Article: "The Origin of "the Pusa Experiment" : The East India Company and Horse-Breeding in Bengal, 1793-1808" by Garry John Adler. ''Bengal Past & Present'', 98 (1979), 10-32. Publisher: Calcutta Historical Society. *"A government stud farm 1798-1811 in the days of the company bahadur" by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' Issue No 18, 1928, published London. ([http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1094760&recordType=Journal Title Index for the issue])
===Other studs===
*In 1835 there was a stud at Buxar, now Bihar, then part of the Bengal Presidency.<ref> [https://archive.org/stream/fiveyearsinindiavol1/Five_Years_in_India_Vol_1#page/n69/mode/2up Page 41] ''Five Years in India: Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, a Visit to the Court of Runjeet Sing, Residence in the Himalayah Mountains, an Account of the Late Expedition to Cabul and Affghanistan, Voyage Down the Indus, and Journey Overland to England, Volume I'' by Henry Edward Fane 1842 Archive.org</ref>*The Madras Presidency stud farm at Ganjam is described in the article "A government stud farm 1798-1811 in the days of the Company Bahadur" by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' Issue No 18, 1928, published London. This article is available online, see below.
==External links==
*[http://www.indiapicks.com/stamps/Forces/759_AOC.htm Army Ordinance Corps] indiapicks.com
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/26061807 "Equipping Leviathan: Ordnance Factories of British India, 1859–1913"] by Kaushik Roy ''War in History'' Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 2003), pp. 398-423 (26 pages) jstor.org. Register with jstor.org, and read online for free (limits apply), or you may be able to log-in through your Library.:[https://web.archive.org/web/20220616074758/https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol44_3_4_KRoy.pdf "Technology Transfer And The Evolution Of Ordnance Establishment In British-India: 1639-1856"] by Kaushik Roy ''Indian Journal of History of Science'', 44.3 (2009) pp. 411-433, Indian National Science Academy Journals archived webpage.
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=n1ABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA164 ''Strength, Organisation and Composition of the Army of Great Britain''], Martin Petrie (1864) gives details of the Ordnance Department factories, pp164-167.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V04_391.gif  The Ordnance Department] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume  4'', page 362. Mentions the various factories.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LdISAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187 Page 187] ‪''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command‬, Volume 24, Part 2 East India (Education) II- Madras 1859, session 2''. This report refers to the attempt made by Lieutenant Braddock in 1830 to improve Carnatic Ordnance Artificers by theoretical instruction.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b637408?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The East India Company’s Arsenals and Manufactories''] by Brigadier-General H. A. Young, Director of Ordnance Factories in India 1917-1920, published 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not available in USA. It is also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://wwwarchive.org/details/eicarsenalsmanufactories/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]*[https://archive.navalorg/details/cavalry-journal-military1928-press.comvol18/page/457/productmode/east2up "A government stud farm 1798-india1811 in the days of the Company Bahadur"] by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' pages 457-companys468, Issue No 18, 1928, published London. Archive.org. The Madras Presidency stud farm at Ganjam.*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv14-arsenals1927/page/129/mode/2up "An Indian Arsenal"] by Lieut.-andColonel C M Routh, Indian Army Ordnance Corps page 130 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 14, 1927 April-manufactoriesJuly'' Archive.org.====British Army====*[https://archive.org/details/ armyordnancevol1 ''East India Company’s Arsenals and ManufactoriesA History of the Army Ordnance Services Volume One Ancient History''] Naval & Military Press reprint editionby Major General A. Forbes 1929. Archive.org:[https://hdl.handle.<net/2027/ref> which in turn is mdp.39015010834490?urlappend=%3Bseq=7%3Bownerid=13510798886004315-11 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services. Volume Two Modern History: The Crimean War to the Great War''] by Major General A. Forbes 1929. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available as an [https://wwwarchive.fold3.comorg/details/armyordnancevol2/browsepage/251n7/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsRwziBAxU online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Booksmode/India)2up Archive. org] :[https://booksarchive.org/details/in.ernet.googledli.com2015.au274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, [Volume Three<nowiki>]</books?id=URK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP5 Preview Google Booksnowiki> The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Archive.org. mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I) and chapters on Other Arenas (Part II): The Home Base; the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Gallipoli; Salonika; Palestine; Mesopotamia; East Africa; Italy; Russia and Siberia.
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