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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R24BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''How I won the Victoria Cross''] by Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Assistant Commissioner in Oudh, 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=onEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, and Oude''] by William Edwards, Judge of Benares, and late Magistrate and Collector of Budaon in Rohilcund. 1858 Google Books
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/14761 ''The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny''] by Mark Thornhill 1884 is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India website. Also available as a current reprint by Cambridge University Press [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ihP7E49bDYC&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books].
*''Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes'' by his Wife 1886 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife01edwa Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife02edwa Volume II] He entered the Bengal Army 1841, and subsequently was seconded to the Civil Service where he was Commissioner of Peshawar during the [[Indian Mutiny]].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesofsocial015334mbp#page/n81/mode/2up/ "The Bengal Civil Service"] Chapter IV of ''Sketches of Social life in India'' by CT Buckland (1884) ex-Bengal Civil Service
*''Life in the Mofussil; or, The Civilian in Lower Bengal'' by G Graham (1878) Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeinmofussilor01grah#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeinmofussilor02grah#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 2]. The author went to India c 1860.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sirrobertgsandem00tuckrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Sir Robert G. Sandeman K.C.S.I., peaceful conqueror of Baluchistan''] by A.L.P. Tucker 1921 Archive.org. Born 1835, he joined the Bengal Army in 1856 and the Civil Service in 1859, working in the North West from 1861 until his death in 1892.
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99022 ''Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian''] by John Beames is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India website. He served as Collector of Cuttack from 1875 to 1878 and earlier as Collector of Balasore District from 1869 to 1873. For more details about this book, and John Beames, see the [[Cuttack]] page.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/amongindianrajah00frasiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Among Indian rajahs and ryots; a civil servant's recollections & impressions of thirty-seven years of work & sport in the Central Provinces & Bengal''] by Andrew H. L Fraser 1912 Archive.org. He joined the Civil Service in 1871 and became Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fraser_(civil_servant) Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/littleworldofind00cars ''The Little World of an Indian District Officer''] by Robert Carstairs 1912. Archive.org. He was in the Bengal Civil Service 1874-1903.
:[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromindia00wilsuoft ''Letters from India''] by Lady Wilson (A C Macleod) [Anne Campbell] 1911 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiaweserved035205mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''The India We Served''] by Sir Walter Roper Lawrence 1928. Archive.org. He joined the Punjab Civil Service c 1879 He left India October 1903 but returned for the Royal visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales November 1905 to March 1906. During WW1 he was involved with setting up the hospitals in Brighton for Indian soldiers.
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/276594 ''India as I knew it, 1885–1925''] by Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer 1925 is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India. Additional files are also available. In 1885 he was posted to Shahpur in the Punjab and retired as lieutenant-governor of the Punjab in 1919. His actions during the unrest of 1919 were controversial.
*[https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/120/mode/2up ''And that reminds me
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India''] Part III India (page 123)
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915 Archive.org. The author, probably born c late 1850s commenced with the Civil Service in India in 1892, having previously been with the Police in [[Burma]]. He was appointed as Deputy Commissioner at [[Chanda]], the most southerly District of Central Provinces, part of the Nagpur Division [https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/154/mode/2up page 154] He retired on medical grounds in 1906.
*[https://archive.org/details/ignorantinindia00vernrich ''An Ignorant in India''] by R E Venede 1911 Archive.org The author was visiting a friend who was a Collector in an indigo region in Bengal
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/527927 ''Diversions of an Indian Political''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion 1932. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Experiences of a political officer in Northern India from 1892. He also wrote [https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] 1910, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh, and a further book on [[Iran|Eastern Persia]].*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209125 ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India''] by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Sir John was Governor of United Provinces with many royal friends. Hunting largely between 1907 and 1912, including tiger hunting in the jungles of Tarai, Cooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal. The author joined the Indian Civil Service c 1877 when he was posted to the North-Western Provinces.*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528179 Pdf download]. The author was a member of the Civil Service in Burma from 1912, and his autobiography covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930.*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278879 ''Impressions of an Indian Civil Servant''] by Roderick Donald Macleod 1938 is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India.*''The Men Who Ruled India'', published in three volumes, [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126942 ''The Founders''] (1953), [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127071 ''The Guardians, Volume I''] and [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127070 ''The Guardians, Volume lI''] (1954) by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym) are available as pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India. The author was Philip Mason who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1928, and his books are about members of the Indian Civil Service.:Listen to the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/philip-mason/ 1978 interview Philip Mason, with transcripts]. He talks of his training for the ICS, his work as a court official and map surveyor, and of his life as an author.
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