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Historical books online
*[http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=WgYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''East India Military and Budget Estimates. Session 5 February-21 August 1867''] ''House of Commons Accounts and Papers, Volume 15'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xSNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Abolition of the bonus system in the Indian Army''] compiled by Lt.-Col. J.C. Phillips, retired list, late Bengal Army. 1869 Google Books
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012224477 ''The Victoria Cross in India''] by Major Knollys 1886, first published c 1877. Awards for the [[Indian Mutiny]]. HathiTrust Digital Library, available to those in areas such as North America. Also [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DnY4AQAAMAAJ Google Books version], USA etc access only.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1880-the-victoria-cross-in-the-colonies-and-gallant-sepoys-and-soward-by-knollys-s-pdf/ ''The Victoria Cross in the Colonies and Gallant Sepoys and Sowars''] by William Wallingford Knollys. Catalogued 1880. (Note: catalogued title includes ''Soward''.) Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0972 Archive.org mirror version]. Includes details of the Victoria Cross awarded in India after the Indian Mutiny. First part to page 85; 2nd part to page 176, or 91 pages of text.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eZABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA5 ''Gallant Sepoys and Sowars''] by Major Elliott and Lieut-Col. Knollys 1882 (although catalogued 1889). 176 pages of text. Google Books. Both books were part of the series ''Deeds of Daring Library''.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.162536/mode/2up ''Indian Munitions Board : Industrial Handbook 1919''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/guidetohindustan00rank/page/96 "Military Phrases"] page 96 ''A guide to Hindustani in Persian and Roman character : specially designed for the use of officers and men serving in India, including colloquial phrases, a collection of arzis, with transliteration and English translations'' by G S A Ranking Surg.-Lieut.-Col., Indian Medical Service. Fourth Edition, Revised and enlarged 1897, first published 1889. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/language-of-the-camp/mode/2up ''Dictionary: Language of the Camp. Army Hindustani and Other Soldier Slang''] by Charles Tustin Kamps 2022. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin_r2s8/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Defence of Duffer's Drift''] by Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton with a foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell 1949 reprint, first published 1904. It is stated "Translated into Urdu for use of the Indian Army". [https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin/mode/2up 1986 edition] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24842 Gutenberg.org 1905 USA edition] A book on small unit tactics. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defence_of_Duffer%27s_Drift Wikipedia article].
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