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*[https://archive.org/details/ignorantinindia00vernrich ''An Ignorant in India''] by R E Venede 1911 Archive.org The author was visiting his brother<ref>[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n14/mode/1up Page ix] ''Letters to his Wife'' by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org</ref> who was a Collector in an indigo region in Bengal.
* ''Diversions of an Indian Political'' by Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276384 Archive.org version], mirror from 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://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/3428 ''Forty-four years a Public Servant''] by C A Kincaid 1934. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3428/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Elsewhere, the author is catalogued a Judge, 1870-1954 and the book "Justice, Administration of - India".
* ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India'' by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 Archive.org version], mirror from 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209652 ''SW Persia: A Political Officers Diary 1907-1914''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*''Indian Embers'' by Lady Lawrence, first published 1948. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136064/page/n15 Archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr/page/n3 1991 reprint Archive.org Lending Library edition] with an "Introduction" by Kenneth Wimmel, [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr_0 2nd file]. "Jane Rosamund Napier was already a published author...when she married Henry Lawrence in 1914 and set sail with him for India. She was his second wife...a mature woman of thirty-six..." The book covers the period to 1918. Her husband was a member of the Indian Civil Service, served as a district officer, and was Commissioner in Sind from 1916. Per Wikipedia, Henry Staveley Lawrence was acting Governor of Bombay 20 March 1926 to 8 December 1928.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinkurdis00hayw/page/n9 ''Two Years in Kurdistan : Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918-1920''] by W R Hay, Captain, attached 24th Punjabis, Political Dept, Government of India. 1921 Archive.org. He was with the Civil Administration of [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]].
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6942/page/n1/mode/2up ''Pundits and Elephants: being the experiences of five years as Governor of an Indian Province''] by the Earl of Lytton. 1942. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. He became Governor of Bengal in 1922. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bulwer-Lytton,_2nd_Earl_of_Lytton Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton] Wikipedia.
*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528179 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/3428 ''Forty-four years a Public Servant''] by C A Kincaid 1934. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3428/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Elsewhere, the author is catalogued a Judge, 1870-1954 and the book "Justice, Administration of - India". He arrived in India in 1891.
* ''Impressions of an Indian Civil Servant'' by Roderick Donald MacLeod 1938 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278879 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. MacLeod worked from 1910 to 1934 in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery,and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000040 page 33] and his postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
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