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*[https://archive.org/details/britishindia030566mbp ''British India from Queen Elizabeth to Lord Reading''] by an Indian Mahomedan 1926 Archive.org. Catalogued as ''British India''
*[https://archive.org/details/rthonmresmontagu00mont ''The Rt. Hon. Mr. E. S. Montagu on Indian Affairs''], published 1917. Archive.org. Mr Montagu was Secretary of State for India, in Britain. Includes the Indian Budgets 1910-1913 and Mr Montagu’s views of the inefficiencies of the structure of Indian Government, as revealed by the Mesopotamian Commission.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12832/page/n7 ''Political Trouble In India 1907-1917''] by James Campbell Ker ICS. Reprint edition with Foreword and Bibliographical Note by Mahadevaprasad Saha. 1960. Archive.org. First published 1917 as ''Secret and Confidential''. This report was a secret document provided to the Sedition Committee, see following ''Report'', and "was the real source-book for the Committee" (page vii):[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45679/page/n15 1973 reprint of 1917 original] with "About this book" by Jamna Das Akhtar. Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/reportsed00indi ''Sedition Committee 1918 Report''] Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. Archive.org. There was also a ''Secret Edition'' ref: IOR/V/26/262/1 British Library. One of the aims of the Committee was to “investigate and report on the nature and extent of the criminal conspiracies connected with the revolutionary movement in India.”See previous item for the book by James Campbell Ker.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209606 ''Sedition Committee 1918 Appendices''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209606 Archive.org version].
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2027793 ''Histories Of The Non-Co-Operation And Khilafat Movements''] by P C Bamford 1925. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: An Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111310 Archive.org Digital Library of India Collection]
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/526461 ''The British Impact on India''] by Sir Percival J Griffiths 1952. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526461 Archive.org version].
*''The Men Who Ruled India'', published in three volumes, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126942 ''The Founders''] (1953), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126942 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127071 ''The Guardians, Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127071 Archive.org version]; and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127070 ''The Guardians, Volume lI''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127070 Archive.org version] (1954) by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym). Initial links are available as pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India. The author was Philip Mason who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1928.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19551/page/n5 ''The Last Days Of The British Raj''] by Leonard Mosley 1960 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/LastYearsOfBritishIndia ''The Last Years Of British India''] by Michael Edwardes 1963 Archive.org. Also available on the Digital Library of India as pdf downloads (multiple files) including [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449456 Pdf download 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449456 Archive.org version]; and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/65392 Pdf download 2]
*Also see [[Life in India#Historical books online 6|Life in India-Departure and Connections]] for books about independence in 1947.
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