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Hunting accounts
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===Hunting accounts===
*[https://archive.org/details/biostor-149930/mode/2up "A Bibliography of Big Game Hunting and Shooting in India and the East"] by Lt. Col. R W Burton pages 222-241 ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'', Volume 49, catalogued 1950. Archive.org.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=gAZCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Oriental Field Sports Volume 1''] by Captain Thomas Williamson 1807 With coloured illustrations. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1BlcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Oriental Field Sports Volume 2''] with illustrations 1808 Google Books.
**[https://archive.org/details/illustrationsofi00willrich ''Illustrations of Indian Field Sports selected and reproduced from the coloured engravings first published in 1807 after designs by Captain Thomas Williamson of the Bengal Army''] 1892 Archive.org (Contains 10 plates)
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066594338?urlappend=%3Bseq=17 ''Tiger-shooting in India; being an account of hunting experiences on foot in Rajpootana, during the hot seasons, from 1850 to 1854''] by William Rice, Lieutenant 25th Regiment Bombay N I 1857 Hathi Trust Digital Library
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924005747377 ''"Indian Game", (from Quail to Tiger)''] by William Rice 1884 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/pastdaysinindiao00londiala ''Past Days in India, or Sporting reminiscences of the Valley of the Soane and the Basin of Singrowlee''] by a Late Customs’ Officer, N W Provinces, India. 1874 Archive.org. Set in the period prior to the Indian Mutiny. Mirzapore, Central India.
*[https://archive.org/details/huntinggroundsof00halhrich/page/n7 ''The Hunting Grounds of the Old World''] by "The Old Shekarry" H A L [Henry Astbury Leveson] 2nd edition 1860. Includes India, Circassia and Algeria. [https://archive.org/details/huntinggroundso02levegoog/page/n9 3rd edition 1865] [https://archive.org/details/huntinggroundsof00halh/page/n4 New edition, 1871] All Archive.org
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5kECAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ‪''The Spear and the Rifle; or Recollections of Sport in India''] by an Old Shekarree [Henry Astbury Leveson] 1860 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/sirvictorbrookes00broorich ''Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist: a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals''] edited by Oscar Leslie Stephen 1894. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on India, including tigers, 1862-63 when Brooke was aged 19, from [https://archive.org/stream/sirvictorbrookes00broorich#page/58/mode/2up page 59]
*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892. Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofnatu00adam/page/n7/mode/2up ''Wanderings of a Naturalist in India : the Western Himalayas, and Cashmere''] by Andrew Leith Adams, Surgeon 22nd Regiment. 1867. Archive.org
*''Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West'' by Alexander Kinloch, [[Rifle Brigade]] and later [[60th Regiment of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps]]. ''Part I'' 1869, ''Part II'' 1876. Later editions have titles…''in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India'' (1885) and … ''in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India'' (1892). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aUcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Part I''] 1869 Google Books; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnb61r?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Part II''] 1876 Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshootin00kinl Revised edition 1885] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshooti02kinlgoog 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1892] Archive.org.
*''The Highlands of Central India : notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports'' by Captain J Forsyth, Bengal Staff Corps. First published 1871, when the author was formerly Assistant Conservator of Forests, Central India. [https://archive.org/details/highlandsofcent00fors 1871 edition], [https://archive.org/details/highlandsofcentr00fors 1889 edition], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924024080446 1919 edition] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023017738 ''A Summer in High Asia, being a record of sport and travel in Baltisan and Ladakh''] by Capt F E S Adair, late Rifle Brigade 1899 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/biggameofbaltist00adairich/page/n19 2nd file], images may be marginally better.
*[https://archive.org/details/sportinhighlands00darrrich ''Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of an eight months' trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a lady's experiences in the latter country; together with hints for the guidance of sportsmen ...''] by Henry Zouch Darrah, Indian Civil Service 1898 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5334/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Trip to Kashmir''] by James Arbuthnot 1900. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India
*[https://archive.org/details/innermostasiatra00cobbiala ''Innermost Asia : travel & sport in the Pamirs''] by Ralph P Cobbold (late 60th Rifles) 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/bulletshotinindi00russiala/page/n7 ''Bullet and shot in Indian forest, plain and hill. With hints to beginners in Indian shooting''] by C E M Russell, late Senior Deputy Conservator of Forests, Mysore Service. 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023218419 ''Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes''] by N W Fergusson 1911 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/junglesportincey00millrich ''Jungle Sport in Ceylon from Elephant to Snipe''] by Marcus W Millett, an Old Ceylon Shikari. 1914 Achive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/indianmemoriesre00bade/page/n7/mode/2up/ ''Indian memories; recollections of soldiering, sport, etc''] by Lieut-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell 1915. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. He arrived in India in November 1876, an officer in the 13th Hussars. The book probably mainly relates to his early years in India. For a book on pigsticking, see further below.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/ibexofshapingoth00rundrich ''The Ibex of Sha-ping, and Other Himalayan Studies''] by Lieut. L B Rundall 1st Gurkha Rifles (Killed in Action Dec. 19, 1914) 1915 Archive.org. With illustrations by the author.
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. The regiment was stationed in Quetta much of the time it was in India January 1915-April 1917. He went duck shooting around Quetta, and in Sind.
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