Mysore State

Mysore State was a Princely state whose capital was Mysore. The British administered the state between 1831 and 1881, and some areas, such as the Civil and Military Station at Bangalore remained under British administration after 1881.

Historical books online

• "Mysore State" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, pages 161-250
  • The British administration between 1831 and 1881 Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 184.
  • The Civil and Military Station at Bangalore was an Assigned Tract under British Administration Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 189.
• Report on the administration of Mysore for ... Google Books
  • 1863-64
    • Christian Missions, page 81
  • 1864-65
  • 1865-66 (3 reports in one volume, separately numbered)
• Mysore and Coorg : A gazetteer compiled for the government of India by Lewis Rice Archive.org
  • Volume 2, Mysore by Districts 1876, Volume 3, Coorg 1878
• Mysore: a Gazetteer compiled for Government Revised Edition
  • Volume 1, Mysore in General 1897, Volume 2 Mysore by Districts 1897
• Mysore Gazetteer edited by C. Hayavadana Rao published 1927-1930 in 5 volumes (Volume 2 is in 4 parts) (total 8). Volume 1, Descriptive; Volume 2, Historical (in 4 Parts); Volume 3, Economic; Volume 4, Administrative; Volume 5, Gazetteer. Volumes available on Archive.org including Mysore Gazetteer Volume 2 Part 4: Historical, Modern Period c 1930; Volume 3 Economic New Edition 1929; Volume 5 Gazetteer New Edition 1930.
• A Brief Sketch of the Gold, Silver, & Copper Coinage of Mysore…together with a list of coins generally to be met with in Southern India… by Lieutenant H P Hawkes Sub. Asst. Commissary General. Bangalore 1856 Archive.org, Anna Digital Library Collection.
• The Experiences of a Planter in the Jungles of Mysore by Robert H Elliot 1871. Volume I Google Books, Vol. I Archive.org Volume II HathiTrust Digital Library. Health management of plantation coolies page 290, Vol. II. Vol. II Google Books. Includes Coffee, Chinchona, Cardamon, Tea, Cotton, Silk, Sandal-Wood, Rhea-Grass.

Gold, Sport and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H Elliot 1894 Archive.org.

Further 1894 editions: Google Books, Project Gutenburg on Archive.org

• 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 Toomai of the Elephants, Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib' by Sir Theodore Tasker The Kipling Journal December 1971 Kipling Society

Digitise on Demand pay service Pack Gear for Elephants by G.P. Sanderson 1882. There are also other elephant related items. National Archives of India.