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==Training==

*The Madras Veterinary Establishment was set up in 1810 and boys from the [[Orphan Schools in Madras#Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum|Military Male Asylum]] and the Charity School were to be trained in the veterinary art, with the eventual rank of [[Farrier|farriers]].<ref>Samuel, E., [http://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA159#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Asiatic annual register''] Vol 12 (London: 1812) p.139</ref>

*There is a British Library catalogue entry IOR/F/4/661/18358 Mar 1821, which appears to be in respect of Bengal: Appointment of J.T. Hodgson as Veterinary Surgeon to the Governor General's Body Guard - he is to select and train eight Assistant Apothecaries as Veterinary Surgeons for the Light Cavalry Regiments. Refer [[Apothecary#Duties|Apothecary - Duties]].

Historical books available online include ''Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara from 1819 to 1825'' by William Moorcroft and George Trebeck [http://books.google.com/books?id=MncOAAAAQAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=AGk7bhhC_wwC Volume 2] (Google Books).

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*[http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/currsci/6/576.pdf Development of Veterinary Work In India] Informative short article held on website of the Indian Academy of Sciences. The article outlines the history of veterinary work in India from 1799 up to the 1930s and mentions the men who played a major role in its expansion.

*An Army Veterinary Department was established in 1884 (a very brief mention in [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031220/nation.htm#15 The Tribune India Online]). A Civil Veterinary Department was established from 1889 with full details in this [http://mahavet.mah.nic.in/historyright.htm link] from the Department of Animal Husbandry , Maharashtra State. It seems that it was the Civil Veterinary Department that later became known as the Indian Veterinary Service or I.V.S. In 1923 a Commission into the Civil Services decided that there would be no further recruitment into the IVS and that in future the provincial governments would control and make appointments [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3ugDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT69 Pratiyogita Darpan/January 2007/1150] Google Books

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