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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=U9-1AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Observations on the disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809''] by Sir John Malcolm 1812  Google Books. [http://books.google.com/books?id=U9-1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Part I. Observations on the causes and progress of the disturbances in the Madras army''],[http://books.google.com/books?id=U9-1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA61 ''Part. II. A narrative of the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Malcolm during the disturbances in the Madras army'']
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=U9-1AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Observations on the disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809''] by Sir John Malcolm 1812  Google Books. [http://books.google.com/books?id=U9-1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Part I. Observations on the causes and progress of the disturbances in the Madras army''],[http://books.google.com/books?id=U9-1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA61 ''Part. II. A narrative of the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Malcolm during the disturbances in the Madras army'']
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=_G4BAAAAMAAJ ''Journals of the sieges of the Madras Army, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819'']  by Edward Lake of the Madras Engineers 1825 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=_G4BAAAAMAAJ ''Journals of the sieges of the Madras Army, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819'']  by Edward Lake of the Madras Engineers 1825 Google Books
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000001A5D4 ''Plans and Views illustrating the Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, etc''] by Edward Lake, 1825. British Library Digital. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/lsidyv367626ee#ark:/81055/vdc_00000000DBFB.0x000009 British Library itemViewer]. Note for the latter link (for at least some browsers) the full screen option only seems to display adequately in the one page option, and even then, the right side of some maps may not display.  Notes: Imperfect; wanting the titlepage and list of plates.  
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000001A5D4 ''Plans and Views illustrating the Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, etc''] by Edward Lake, 1825. British Library Digital.  Notes: Imperfect; wanting the titlepage and list of plates.  
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=sUjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Military reminiscences: extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' active service in the East Indies Volume 1''] by Colonel James Welsh of the Madras Establishment 1830. Google Books  [http://books.google.com/books?id=8UjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP13 ''Volume 2''] Google Books  (service from 1790)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=sUjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Military reminiscences: extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' active service in the East Indies Volume 1''] by Colonel James Welsh of the Madras Establishment 1830. Google Books  [http://books.google.com/books?id=8UjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP13 ''Volume 2''] Google Books  (service from 1790)
*"Journal of A Company’s Officer". ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies'', New Series Voumes I and III,  May-Oct 1843 and May-Oct 1844. Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KxAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA345 No I] page 345, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KxAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA506  No II] Page 506, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA69 No III The Kemedy Campaign] page 69, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA158 No IV] page 158, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA397 No V] page 397. The author initially was a Lieutenant Fireworker who came to Madras Presidency in the 1810s probably 1811. His account continues until the 1820s.   
*"Journal of A Company’s Officer". ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies'', New Series Voumes I and III,  May-Oct 1843 and May-Oct 1844. Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KxAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA345 No I] page 345, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KxAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA506  No II] Page 506, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA69 No III The Kemedy Campaign] page 69, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA158 No IV] page 158, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA397 No V] page 397. The author initially was a Lieutenant Fireworker who came to Madras Presidency in the 1810s probably 1811. His account continues until the 1820s.   
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qDRYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP2 ''Revised Standing Orders, Sections II, III, IV, V and XI for the Native Infantry of the Madras Army''] 1866 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qDRYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP2 ''Revised Standing Orders, Sections II, III, IV, V and XI for the Native Infantry of the Madras Army''] 1866 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_wnAIAAAAQAAJ ''Routes in the Peninsula of India Comprising the Whole of the Madras Presidency and Portions of the Adjacent Territories of Bengal and Bombay''] by Major F H Scott, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Madras Army 1853 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_wnAIAAAAQAAJ ''Routes in the Peninsula of India Comprising the Whole of the Madras Presidency and Portions of the Adjacent Territories of Bengal and Bombay''] by Major F H Scott, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Madras Army 1853 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sketchesofmostpr00anne/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising, a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East : statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different divisions of the army under the Madras presidency : embracing also the annual rate of mortality, & c. of European troops : and practical observations on the effects of calomel on the alimentary canal, and on the diseases most prevalent in India''] by James Annesley 1825 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/b21460152 2nd edition, with corrections and large additions, 1829] Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ‪''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras Army‬: ‪including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the Supreme Court'']. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office‬ 1842 ‪Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ‪''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras Army‬: ‪including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the Supreme Court'']. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office‬ 1842 ‪Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FpteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of Coorg''] Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office, Madras 1843 Google Books Includes the cantonment of Merkara.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FpteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of Coorg''] Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office, Madras 1843 Google Books Includes the cantonment of Merkara.
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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FZteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ‪''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Ceded Districts'']: Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office Madras‬ 1844  Google Books Includes the cantonments of [[Bellary]] and [[Cuddapah]]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FZteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ‪''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Ceded Districts'']: Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office Madras‬ 1844  Google Books Includes the cantonments of [[Bellary]] and [[Cuddapah]]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-4xDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Provinces of Malabar and Canara'']: Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office, Madras 1844 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-4xDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Provinces of Malabar and Canara'']: Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office, Madras 1844 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-4xDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA79 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Mysore Division of the Madras Army''] Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office, Madras 1844 Google Books‬. (Appears at the back of the book file for the previously mentioned ''Report'')
*[https://archive.org/details/b29346903/page/n1/mode/2up ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Mysore Division of the Madras Army''] Compiled from the Records of the Medical Board Office, Madras 1844. Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33 "Statistical Report on the Sickness and Mortality among the Troops serving in the Madras Presidency. Prepared from official documents printed by order of the Madras Government"] by T. Graham Balfour, M. D., Grenadier Guards page 33 ''Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68'' 1847
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33 "Statistical Report on the Sickness and Mortality among the Troops serving in the Madras Presidency. Prepared from official documents printed by order of the Madras Government"] by T. Graham Balfour, M. D., Grenadier Guards page 33 ''Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68'' 1847
*[https://archive.org/details/b2809265x ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862''] by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
*[https://archive.org/details/b2809265x ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862''] by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
**[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/n38/mode/1up Sketch Map: Territory in India, Burmah and Straits Settlements occupied by Madras Troops].     
**[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/n38/mode/1up Sketch Map: Territory in India, Burmah and Straits Settlements occupied by Madras Troops].     
*''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/402/mode/2up "Abstract of Sanitary Details in Reports from Principal Military Stations in India. Madras Presidency"] page 403. Includes details of the military stations in Burma.
**[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/402/mode/2up "Abstract of Sanitary Details in Reports from Principal Military Stations in India. Madras Presidency"] page 403. Includes details of the military stations in Burma.

Revision as of 01:30, 12 June 2020

The Madras Army was one of the East India Company Armies. Its origins lie in the raising of the first troops at Fort St George which was constructed in 1640 to defend Madras.

Divisions

Madras Regiments

A list of Madras Army regiments, alphabetically by type, can be found in the main article Madras Army Regiments.

Records

British Library

The links for the following catalogue references are National Archives Discovery links. For British Library equivalent links, search directly in the British Library’s "Search our Catalogue Archives and Manuscripts".

Other records available in the British Library India Office holdings include:

Please note that the Registers of Madras Army European Soldiers IOR/L/MIL/11/101-108 1786-1860 commenced in 1831 and only contain men still serving in the Army at that date. They are the recommended records to look at initially for men serving from 1831. If a man left the Army prior to 1831 for any reason, including death, he will not appear in these records. The Muster records are an alternative source of information.
FamilySearch (LDS (Mormons)) have filmed many of these records, most of which are now available as digitised microfilm. Search the FamilySearch catalogue by entering keywords such as Madras Army. In particular, “Registers of Madras Army European soldiers, 1786-1860” (catalogue entry) and “Madras army muster, quarterly, annual and casualty rolls, 1762-1907” (catalogue entry) are available.
Note: Microfilm ordering services ceased September 2017, however selected microfilms have been digitised and are currently available for viewing on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Locate these records through the FamilySearch catalogue. It is expected that in time all microfilms will be similarly available in this format. See FamilySearch Centres for viewing details.
  • Military Department Library: Madras Army IOR/L/MIL/17/3 1787-1904 includes
    • Madras Army List IOR/L/MIL/17/3/1-329 1810-1895
    • Madras Army General and Regimental Histories, Biographical Compilations IOR/L/MIL/17/3/511-520 1852-1943.
  • Soldiers’ and Officers’ Wills IOR/L/AG/34/30 1825-1881 (varies according to Presidency and whether a soldier or an officer). These records are available on findmypast

Fibis Database

Other sources

The National Army Museum holds a card index detailing officer's services. This index is unpublished and not available elsewhere. See the NAM article for details.

Recommended reading

  • When the Tiger Fought the Thistle – The Tragedy of Colonel William Baillie of the Madras Army by Alan Tritton 2013. Review by Peter Bailey in FIBIS Journal Number 31 (Spring 2014), page 55. For access, see FIBIS Journals
Events in the 2nd Mysore War

External links

Historical books online

Indian Army Uniforms by W Y Carman 1969. Full title: Indian Army Uniforms under the British from the 18th century to 1947 : Artillery, Engineers and Infantry. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Note: Original colour plates are in black and white and most illustrations are of poor quality.
A plan of Madura, catalogued as Rajshahi Revolt against British Rule (1763-4). George III's collection of military maps, Royal Collection Trust.
Memoir of General John Briggs, of the Madras Army; with comments on some of his words and work by Major Evans Bell 1885 Archive.org. General Briggs joined the Madras Army July 1801, and left India in 1835.
Plans and Views illustrating the Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, etc by Edward Lake, 1825. British Library Digital. Notes: Imperfect; wanting the titlepage and list of plates.
2nd edition, with corrections and large additions, 1829 Archive.org
The Madras Soldier 1746-1946 by Lt.-Col. E G Phythian-Adams Revised and enlarged edition 1947 Archive.org.