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*[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.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha''] by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org . The author, who was in a British Army regiment, arrived in India c 1883, and was subsequently appointed to the Indian Army where he held many positions.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indian-cavalryman-by-guest-s-pdf/ ''Indian Cavalryman''] by Captain Freddie Guest, [Reginald Edwin Guest] 1959. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:Recommended by Peter Moore in [[Military reading list#Other|Military reading list]] who says "Selected in England to be trained as an Officer Cadet in Wellington, Southern India, he was commissioned into the 8th King George’s Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army... This story covers the period between the wars and up to the end of the World War. He saw active service in the North-West Frontier; Africa; China and was the first prisoner-of-war to escape from the Japanese in Hong Kong; ending the war as the Equitation Instructor at the Officer Cadet School in Bangalore”. His earlier book ''Escape From The Bloodied Sun'' was a more detailed account of his escape from Hong Kong when he was an officer in the Middlesex Regiment.
*''The Travels of Risaldar Shahzad Mir Khan'' of the 11th K E O Lancers (Probyn’s Horse), who enlisted 14th February 1882, died 1924. Translated extracts from his autobiography ''Shah Safar Sair-i-Dunya'', in Urdu, official text-book for the elementary Urdu examination. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284708/2015.284708.Usi-Journal#page/n345/mode/2up '''Part I'''] includes the Herat Boundary Commission under General Lumsden in 1885, page 326-340 and [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284708/2015.284708.Usi-Journal#page/n569/mode/2up '''Part II'''], Journey to Tibet and China, with Capt. M S Wellby 18th Hussars 1895-1896, pages 543-553 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 62, 1932'' Archive.org; [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.280027/2015.280027.Usi-Journal#page/n121/mode/2up '''Part III'''] Africa with Captain Wellby in 1898-99, pages 114-122; [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.280027/2015.280027.Usi-Journal#page/n211/mode/2up '''Part IV'''] England, pages 204-214. ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 63, 1933'' Archive.org. (Captain Wellby wrote two books about these expeditions, see [[11th Prince of Wales's Own Lancers]]). Published later as ''The life & adventures of K.B. Risaldar Shahzad Mir : O.B.I. (1863-1924) : 11th (K.E.O.), Bengal Lancers (Probyn's Horse)'' with the contents given in this [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6491400 catalogue entry] (nla.gov.au).
*[https://archive.org/stream/illustratednava05unkngoog#page/n143/mode/2up "Indian Life: The Cantonment Magistrate"] by Major-General de Berry, page 120 ''The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine, Volume 8, 1888''. Archive.org. The Cantonment Magistrate was invariably a military officer of one of the Indian Staff Corps.
*''The Indian Engineers 1939-1947'' by Lieut Colonel E. W. C Sandes, published 1956, is available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/505988 pdf download] Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505988 Archive.org version]. It is catalogued as ''The Indian Engineers (1956)''.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015022447810?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''History of the Indian Army''] by Brigadier Rajendra Singh, Colonel, The Grenadiers 1963 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.121905 ''The Indian Army: Its Contribution to the Development of a Nation''] by Stephen P Cohen 1971. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/35034 ''Resume - Horse And Mule Breeding Operations In India, 1880''] Government Central Branch Press Simla. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35034 Archive.org version]. Information about the Department of Horse-Breeding Operations under the Government of India, established March 1876.
*[https://archive.org/stream/horsebreedingi00gilb#page/52/mode/2up "Horse-Breeding in India"], page 52 ''Horse-Breeding in England and India: and Army Horses Abroad'' by Sir Walter Gilbey 1906 Archive.org
