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*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.706/mode/2up ''How I Killed the Tiger being An Account of my Encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger''] by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Sheffield 1902. With illustrations. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. The incident took place in 1871 at Palaspai, Midnapore, and the author was badly wounded.
*[http://www.archive.org/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich ''Wild Men and Wild Beasts: Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sportingmilitary00walsrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''Sporting and military adventures in Nepaul and the Himalayas. A narrative of personal encounters and narrow escapes''] by Major Blaney Walshe [1875]. Archive.org. Although elsewhere<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yyHsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA318 Page 318] ''British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951''. Compiled by William Matthews originally published 1955 Google Books</ref> catalogued as a personal account, this book appears to be an '''adventure novel'''.
*[https://archive.org/details/largesmallgameof00bald ''The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the Northwestern Provinces of India''] by Captain J H Baldwin, late of H P Bengal Staff Corps 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924016411872/mode/2up ''The Sportsman's Guide to Kashmir & Ladak, etc. Reproduced with additions from letters which appeared in the "Asian."''] by A E Ward , Bengal Staff Corps. Second and revised edition 1883 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.06759 ''The Tourist's and Sportsman’s Guide to Kashmir and Ladak''] by A E Ward, Bengal Staff Corps 1896. Archive.org
*''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]
