Ordnance Department
The Ordnance Department was part of the Military Establishment.
- The East India Company's Arsenals & Manufactories by Brig-Gen Henry A. Young, Director of Ordnance Factories in India 1917-1920, first published in 1937 and re-published by Naval & Military Press in 2005 gives historical background of munitions factories etc. The original edition is available at the British Library
- This Google Books link gives details of the Ordnance Department factories etc c 1864. pages 164-167 from Strength, Organisation and Composition of the Army of Great Britain by Martin Petrie. It indicates that in Bengal, the Stud Department was part of the Ordnance Department.
- The Origin of "the Pusa Experiment" : The East India Company and Horse-Breeding in Bengal, 1793-1808 by Garry John Adler. Bengal Past & Present, 98 (1979), 10-32. Publisher: Calcutta Historical Society. ISSN 00058807