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*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com
*Obituary of [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1448007/Charles-Chenevix-Trench.html Charles Chenevix Trench], c 1914 -2003 (telegraph.co.uk) He served as an Indian Army officer in the 1930s, commissioned into [[Hodson's Horse]], and winning an MC during the Second World War . In 1946 he retired from the Army to follow his father into the Indian Political Service for the 18 months until Partition. His 19 books included three classic accounts of British India: ''The Indian Army and the King's Enemies, 1900-1947''; ''The Frontier Scouts''; and ''The Viceroy's Agent'', all published in the 1980s and available at the [[British Library]]
*[http://www.defencejournal.com/2001/feb/ethnicity.htm "Ethnicity, Religion, Military Performance and Political Reliability - British Recruitment Policy and The Indian Army - 1757-1947"] by Maj (Retd) Agha Humayun Amin ''Defence Journal'' [Pakistan] February 2001
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=WgYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''East India Military and Budget Estimates. Session 5 February-21 August 1867''] ''House of Commons Accounts and Papers, Volume 15'' Google Books
