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*''Ubique: War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army'' by T.C. Anderson, originally published 1863, is available in a reprint edition from Naval & Military Press, which is in turn available on the Ancestry owned [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsp9fW0AfE pay website fold3] located in International/Military Books/India. Note data from this book is available on the FIBIS database, refer [[Bengal Army#Fibis resources|above]].
:''Ubique: War Services...'' is also available as a FamilySearch digitised microfilm, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/819733 catalogue entry], viewable at a [[FamilySearch Centres|FamilySearch Centre]] or FamilySearch Affiliate Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0013narrativemutiny00stragoog/page/n6/mode/2up ''Narrative of the Mutiny of the Officers of the Army in Bengal in the year 1766''] by Henry Strachey, Secretary to Lord Clive during his last Expedition to India, and lately given in Evidence to the Secret Committee of the House of Commons. 1773 Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3463/mode/2up ''Soldiering in India 1764-1787: extracts from journals and letters left by Lt. Colonel Allen Macpherson and Lt. Colonel John Macpherson of the East India Company's Service''] by William Charles Macpherson, formerly of the Indian Civil Service. 1928. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi].
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdeanmah0000maho/mode/2up ''The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India''] Edited with an introduction and biographical essay by Michael H. Fisher 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4h4nb20n/ Transcribed version] cdlib.org
:Originally published as [https://archive.org/details/b28742898 ''The Travels of Dean Mahomet, A Native of Patna in Bengal, Through Several Parts of India, While in the Service of The Honourable The East India Company Written by Himself, In a Series of Letters to a Friend''] 1794. Volumes I And II in one digital file [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/194/mode/2up Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/n27/mode/2up Contents, Vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/196/mode/2up Contents, Vol. II] Archive.org. Born 1759, he appears to have become part of the Bengal Army 1769 after meeting a British Officer.
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/5499 ''A Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army to the year 1895''] by F G Cardew 1903. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5499/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/indianarmyunifor00carm/page/n7 ''Indian Army Uniforms under the British from the 18th century to 1947: Cavalry''] by W Y Carman 1961. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a [https://archive.org/details/indianarmyunifor00carm/page/232 Regimental index, page 232].
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