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*[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, from [https://www.insa.nic.in/Default.aspx 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.naval-military-press.comorg/productdetails/east-india-companys-arsenals-and-manufactorieseicarsenalsmanufactories/ ''East India Company’s Arsenals and Manufactories''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.<page/ref> which in turn is available as an [https:n5/mode/www.fold32up Archive.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsRwziBAxU online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3org version] (located in Military Books/India). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=URK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP5 Preview Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalry-journal-1928-vol18/page/457/mode/2up "A government stud farm 1798-1811 in the days of the Company Bahadur"] by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' pages 457-468, Issue No 18, 1928, published London. Archive.org. The Madras Presidency stud farm at Ganjam.
*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/129/mode/2up "An Indian Arsenal"] by Lieut.-Colonel C M Routh, Indian Army Ordnance Corps page 130 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 14, 1927 April- July'' Archive.org.
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*[https://archive.org/details/armyordnancevol1 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services Volume One Ancient History''] by Major General A. Forbes 1929. Archive.org:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/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 [https://archive.org/details/armyordnancevol2/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org]
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, [Volume Three<nowiki>]</nowiki> 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.
