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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5kECAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ‪''The Spear and the Rifle; or Recollections of Sport in India, by an Old Shekarree''] [Henry Astbury Leveson] 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=V2AoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The rifle in Cashmere : a narrative of shooting expeditions in Ladak, Cashmere, Punjaub, etc., with advice on travelling, shooting, and stalking : to which are added notes on army reform and Indian politics''] by Arthur Brinckman, late of HM’s 94th Regt. 1862 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892. Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
*[http://www.archive.org/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich ''Wild Men and Wild Beasts Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/thirteenyearsamo029922mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation: With an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants''] by GP Sanderson, Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore 6th edition 1907 Archive.org (first published 1878). The author was the model for the Rudyard Kipling character 'Petersen Sahib' in the story [http://archive.org/stream/junglebookkipl#page/216/mode/2up ''Toomai of the Elephants''], [http://www.kiplingjournal.com/textfiles/KJ180.txt Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib'] by Sir Theodore Tasker ''The Kipling Journal December 1971'' [http://www.kipling.org.uk/index.htm Kipling Society]
*''Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America'' by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth03bakegoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume I] [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth00unkngoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume II]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878.
*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024053773 ''Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India''] by Mrs Alan Gardner (Nora Gardner) 1895 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the [[Forestry|Indian Forest Service]]
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