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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MwoFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 ''The Old Forest Ranger, or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and On the Plains''] by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books
*''Records of Sport and Military Life in Western India'' by Lieut-Colonel Thomas Gamble Fraser 1881. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B12#?#loaded&c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1219.2441%2C-125.3889%2C3886.4882%2C2507.7778 British Library Digital]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.101833/page/n5 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Born 1807, he joined the Bombay Army, (1st Bombay Fusiliers), as a young Cadet, aged 16 c 1823 and retired 1st January 1856.
*[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 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.53307/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org version].
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924005747377 ''"Indian Game", (from Quail to Tiger)''] by William Rice 1884 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0448 shootinginhimala00markrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shooting In The Himalayas. A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, etc.''] by Colonel Fred. Markham 32nd Regiment 1854. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[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
*''Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ...'' by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879 [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb01pollgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb00pollgoog Volume II] Archive.org
:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar''] by Colonel Pollock, [FitzWilliam Thomas Pollock] Madras Staff Corps 1896 seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu. [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version] The author arrived in Madras in early 1849, and was posted to a Native Infantry Regiment. In 1853 he was appointed to the Sappers and Miners in Burma.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHawmAEACAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Nilgiri Sporting Reminiscences''] by an Old Shikarri [G. A. R. D. ie G A R Dawson] 1880 Google Books. Also available [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293016921979?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library] where the images may be rotated.
*''India and Tiger-Hunting'' by Colonel Julius Barras Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu02barrgoog Volume I] 1883; [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu01barrgoog Series II] 1885
:''The New Shikari at our Indian Stations'' by Julius Barras 1885 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour00barrgoog#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour01barrgoog#page/n4/mode/2up Volume 2]
*''Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America'' by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth03bakegoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume I] [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth00unkngoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume II]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1892-a-first-bear-shoot-in-kashmir-being-a-guide-for-would-be-sportsmen-by-burrard-s-pdf/ ''A First Bear-Shoot in Kashmir being a guide for would-be sportsmenof shrewd understanding but tender years''] by W Dutton Burrard 1892, published Allahabad. Pdf download PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1239/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/biggameshooting02philiala ''Big Game Shooting, Volume II''] by Clive Phillipps-Wolley 1894 Archive.org. Part of ''The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes''. Includes India. (Volume I, Africa).
*[https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsofshi00brad ''Thirty Years of Shikar''], with a [https://archive.org/stream/thirtyyearsofshi00brad#page/n392/mode/1up Map: Oudh Forest Tracts and Nepal Terai] by Sir Edward Braddon 1895 Archive.org.The [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/braddon-sir-edward-nicholas-coventry-5330 author] was in India from 1847, including the Civil Service. Australian Dictionary of Biography. He left India in 1878, and later became a politician in Australia.
*[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.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1918-with-pen-and-rifle-in-kishtwar-by-rothfeld-s-pdf/ ''With Pen and Rifle in Kishtwar''] by Otto Rothfeld 1918. The author was a member of the Indian Civil Service. He describes Kishtwar as, "…the province of Kishtwar, situated between Kashmir and Chamba on the way to Simla, and ruled by H. H. the Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu". Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the book download does not display, locate the digital file under Books. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2077/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284719/page/n181/mode/2up "Struma Valley 1919" [Southern Macedonia<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 166, ''USI [United Service Institution Of India] Journal'' Vol.lxxii Jan to Oct 1942. Archive.org. Hunting wild fowl, on leave in December 1919 from the author’s regiment in Constantinople, part of the [[Norperforce#Constantinople|Army of the Black Sea]].
* ''A Guide To Tiger Shooting'' by Madhav Rao Scindia 1920. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207488 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag211edinuoft#page/318/mode/2up "A Shooting Trip in Chamba"] by F L Farrer page 318 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 211 January-June 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/daysnightswithin0000ward/page/n9 ''Days and Nights with Indian Big Game''] by Major-General A E Wardrop with chapters by C W G Morris. 1923. Archive.org. Wardrop was also the author of ''Modern pig-sticking'', see below.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1924-sport-and-service-in-assam-and-elsewhere-by-wilson-s-pdf/ ''Sport and Service in Assam, and Elsewhere''] by James Alban Wilson 1924. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download does not display, look under Books/ Indian Subcontinent.[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2253/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b25288?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet''] by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-big-game-hunting-in-the-himalayas-and-tibet-by-burrard-s-pdf/ Download from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD)]. If download does not display, look under Books/Himalaya and Karakoram.[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2267/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
* ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.'' by W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. He was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes reference to the Madras Hunt.
*''Beyond Leh: A Shooting Trip in Ladakh, 1926'' by K. W. Dickson, wife of R, a Medical Officer. ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps''
:[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/5/377.full.pdf Part 1] 1933;60:5 377-392. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/6/456.full.pdf Part 2] 1933;60:6 456-461. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/1/61.full.pdf Part 3] 1933;61:1 61-70. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/2/133.full.pdf Part 4] 1933;61:2 133-144. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/4/304.full.pdf Part 5] 1933;61:4 304-309. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/5/379.full.pdf Part 6] 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7: not online. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/2/142.full.pdf Part 8] 1934;62:2 142-150. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/3/224.full.pdf Part 9] 1934;62:3 224-233. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/5/365.full.pdf Part 10] 1934;62:5 365-376. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/6/430.full.pdf Part 11] 1934;62:6 430-440. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/2/127.full.pdf Part 12] 1934;63:2 127-134. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/193.full.pdf Part 13] 1934;63:3 193-206.
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/1/65.full.pdf "Suggestions as to the Cheapest Methods of Shooting Tiger in the Central Provinces, India"] by Exile ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1934;62:1 pages 65-71.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1934-when-the-red-gods-call-being-the-biography-of-a-shikari-in-the-making-by-malet-s-pdf/ ''When the Red Gods Call: Being The Biography Of A Shikari In The Making''] by Rawdon Malet 1934. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download does not display, go to Books/Indian Subcontinent/scroll to 1934. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2588 Archive.org mirror version]. An account of the hunting career of James Carmody Collinson. He came to India after demobilisation following WW1. His travels took him to Baltistan, Tibet and Ladakh, where he hunted ibex and other game; journeying to India's Central Provinces, he successfully pursued tiger, sambur and bear<ref>[https://www.shakariconnection.com/books-about-early-african-hunters.html "Books About Early African Hunters"] shakariconnection.com </ref>.
* ''Shikar Memories'' by Lieut.-Col. H S Wood [Henry Stotesbury], IMS (Late M O 2/8th Gurkhas and Civil Surgeon, Assam) 1934. Full title: ''Shikar Memories. A record of sport and observation in India and Burma''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211390 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209132/page/n259 Battle between an Assam tigress and a Rajput elephant] involving C. B. a forestry official with a wooden leg, from [[Kathiawar]], pages 251-254 ''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India'' by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/callofthetiger029909mbp ''Call Of The Tiger''] by Colonel A N W Powell 1957 Archive.org . The author was a contemporary of Jim Corbett, the latter was born 1875.
*For books by Jim Corbett, see [[Kumaon Division]].
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1970-assam-shikari-tea-planters-story-of-hunting-and-high-adventure-by-nicholls-s-pdf/ ''Assam Shikari. A tea planter's story of hunting and high adventure in the jungles of North East India''] by Frank Nicholls, Tea Planter (born 1889) 1970. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3375 Archive.org mirror version]
*[https://archive.org/details/TheRupaBookOfShikarStoriesRuskinBond ''The Rupa Book Of Shikar Stories''] edited by Ruskin Bond 2004. Selections from many authors; the first account in the book is dated 1929. Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pigstickingorhog00baderich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Pigsticking or, Hoghunting: a complete account for sportsmen, and others''] by Captain R. S. S. Baden-Powell [of Scouting fame] Illustrated by the author. 1889 Archive.org
