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Historical books online
*[[Medal Rolls]]
*[[Unattached List]]
*[[:Category:Organisations]] has links to a number of military historical societies which publish journals containing articles about India, including the now closed [[Indian Military Historical Society]], which publishes published the journal ''Durbar''.
*[[Postal Service]] for some details during Military Campaigns.
*[[5th Regiment of Bengal (Light) Infantry|5th Light Infantry]] for 1915 Singapore Mutiny
====Other records in India====
*[https://usiofindia.org/cafhr-2cmhcs/ Centre For Armed Forces Historical Research (CAFHR)], The United Service Institution of India. This Centre may be able to offer advice about military records in India.
*Article [http://tribune.com.pk/story/204911/treasure-trove-awesome-/ "Treasure trove: Awesome collection in awful condition"] by Sonia Malik 8 July 2011, ''The Tribune'', Pakistan, gives details of records held at the Lahore Museum in respect of over 100,000 Indian soldiers who served in the British Army during the [[First World War]].
:'''Update''' [https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ludhiana/british-indian-army-undivided-punjab-soldiers-recordes-world-war-i-7615838/ "Registers accessed from Lahore Museum digitised, records of WW-1 soldiers from undivided Punjab now a click away"] by Divya Goyal 10 November 2021. indianexpress.com. Phase-1 of the platform [http://www.punjabww1.com Punjab & World War One] will be launched with details of three districts – Ludhiana, Jalandhar (then Jullundur) and Sialkot (now in Pakistan).
*[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
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xSNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Abolition of the bonus system in the Indian Army''] compiled by Lt.-Col. J.C. Phillips, retired list, late Bengal Army. 1869 Google Books
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012224477 ''The Victoria Cross in India''] by Major Knollys 1886, first published c 1877. Awards for the [[Indian Mutiny]]. HathiTrust Digital Library, available to those in areas such as North America. Also [https://wwwbooks.google.com.au/books/edition/_/?id=DnY4AQAAMAAJ Google Books version], USA etc access only.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1880-the-victoria-cross-in-the-colonies-and-gallant-sepoys-and-soward-by-knollys-s-pdf/ ''The Victoria Cross in the Colonies and Gallant Sepoys and Sowars''] by William Wallingford Knollys. Catalogued 1880. (Note: catalogued title includes ''Soward''.) Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0972 Archive.org mirror version]. Includes details of the Victoria Cross awarded in India after the Indian Mutiny. First part to page 85; 2nd part to page 176, or 91 pages of text.
:[https://wwwbooks.google.com.au/books/edition/Gallant_Sepoys_and_Sowars/eZABAAAAQAAJ?hlid=en&gbpv=1eZABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1 PA5 ''Gallant Sepoys and Sowars''] by Major Elliott and Lieut-Col. Knollys 1882 (although catalogued 1889). 176 pages of text. Google Books. Both books were part of the series ''Deeds of Daring Library''.
*Series title ''Her Majesty's Army; a descriptive account of the various regiments now comprising the Queen's forces, from their first establishment to the present time'', by Walter Richards. [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.405/page/n1/mode/2up [Volume III<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''Her Majesty's Army: Indian And Colonial Forces''] With Coloured Illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.402/mode/2up 2nd file, Vol III] c 1891 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
*[https://archive.org/stream/armybookforbrit00daltgoog#page/n472/mode/2up "Part III The Army in India and Colonial Forces"] page 442 ''The Army Book for the British Empire: A Record of the Development and Present Composition of the Military Forces and their Duties in Peace and War'' by William Howley Goodenough R A and James Cecil Dalton R A. 1893. HMSO. Archive.org. Includes Indian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.824/page/n17/mode/2up “The Simplicity of Yesterday”] by Field–Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck page 8 ''The Times of India Annual 1949''. Note missing pages 11-12. Then continues [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.824/page/n73/mode/2up page 77] and pages 79 and 81. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. This volume is also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002827019 . Auchinleck joined the 62nd Punjabis in 1904. The latter pages include details about the structure of a regiment c 1904, and the training of men.
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeinindianoutp00cassiala/page/n9 ''Life in an Indian Outpost''] [Buxa Duar, North East India] by Major Gordon Casserly, Indian Army, first published c 1910. Archive.org. Also see Fiction, below.
*[httphttps://searchfind.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER197595 permalink/61SLV_INST/s6pvau/alma991975953607636 ''The Indian Army A B C : being a record of some of those depressing events that occur in the daily life of every Officer of the Indian Army''] by Myauk [John William Jerome Alves] 1915. With download link, State Library of Victoria. [http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/87039 Direct link]. The quoit mentioned in Q for Quoit is known as a Chakram or Chakkar. [http://www.whoosh.org/issue8/rudnick6.html 'What The Heck Is A Chakram, Anyway?"] by Bret Ryan Rudnick.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha''] by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org . The author, who was in a British Army regiment, arrived in India c 1883, and was subsequently appointed to the Indian Army where he held many positions.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38633/page/n321 "The Defence of India"] page 273 ''The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent: from his journals and letters'' edited by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice 1928 Archive.org. Rawlinson became Commander-in Chief in India at the end of 1920, until he died in March 1925. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baron_Rawlinson Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson] Wikipedia.
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.206513/2015.206513.Report-Of#page/n133/mode/2up "Conditions of Service of Followers"] page 87 . Recommendations.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35547 ''Report Of The Army In India Committee 1919-20 Part II''] Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/36694 ''The Army in India and Its Evolution: Including an account of the establishment of the Royal Air Force in India''] 1924. Compiled Officially. Digital Repository of GIPE (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune, India]). A pdf download to your computer. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207847 Archive.org version].
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/7986 ''India's Army''] by Major Donovan Jackson 1940. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7986/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19395371#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 ''Short History of the Indian Army''] by Lieutenant Colonel B.N. Majumdar 1971. Reprinted from ''The Bulletin'', Military Historical Society. Wellcome Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/matterofhonour0000maso ''A Matter of Honour''] by Philip Mason 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Additional title on cover: ''An account of the Indian Army, its officers and men''.
*[https://archive.org/details/indianarmygarris0000heat/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Indian Army : The Garrison of British Imperial India, 1822-1922''] by T A Heathcote 1974. A volume in the series ''Historic Armies and Navies''. A comment elsewhere said [contains] "... important detail concerning organisation, recruitment and pay". Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sonsofjohncompan0000gayl/mode/2up ''Sons of John Company : the Indian and Pakistan Armies 1903-91''] by John Gaylor 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogueofbooks00cockrich#page/n1/mode/2up ''A catalogue of books relating to the military history of India''] drawn up by Maurice J.D. Cockle 1901 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278755 ''Handbook For Indian Cavalry''] By F.W.P. [Frederick William Pakenham] Angelo 1898. Published at Allahabad. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalry-journal-1934-vol24/page/375/mode/2up "The Silladar Cavalry of India"] by Thistle page 376 ''The Cavalry Journal'' Volume 24 1934. Archive.org
:A follow on article [https://archive.org/details/cavalry-journal-1935-vol25/page/191/mode/2up "The Indian Cavalry of To-day"] by Major-General E D Giles page 192 ''The Cavalry Journal'' Volume 25 1935. Archive.org
*''India Army Orders''. Include Appointments, Promotions, Long Service Medals etc. Originally from the Digital Library of India, with mirror images on Archive.org. Based on catalogue details unless otherwise specified. Some volumes are catalogues as ''Indian Army Orders''.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.116147 1908] (catalogued Jan,vi Th, 1945); [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72282 1910] (catalogued Jan,thired 1855); [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548370/page/n1 1911]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72288 1912]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108702/page/n1 1913]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108703/page/n3 1914]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108686/page/n1 1915]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108822/page/n1 1916]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548369/page/n1 1919], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548567/page/n1 1919 Special Orders]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108866/page/n1 1920]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108847 1922]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108844 1923]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108855 November 1924]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548590/page/n1 1925] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.117224 1927]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548368 1928]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108848 1929]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72293 1931]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.117202 1932]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.117213 1933].
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548441 1918]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72286 1919]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108867 1920]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548554 No.2 Of 1920]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515142 1921]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515144 1922]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548422 Index To Army Instructions India January To December 1922]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515155 1923]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.552730 2nd Jan.1923]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69273 Index To Army Instructions India] 1924; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548540 1926].
:Additional editions are available at the British Library with catalogue entry Indian Army: Army Instructions (India) ‎(1918-1946) IOR/L/MIL/17/5/501-529
*[https://archive.org/details/1928ukfspbpt2india/page/n2/mode/1up ''Field Service Pocket Book. Part II – India. Corrected to January 1928''] Government of India publication Calcutta 1928. Archive.org, Vickers MG Collection & Research Association Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108708/page/n1 ''The Army in India: [Regulations<nowiki>]</nowiki> Corrected up to, and including, amendments to Regulations, Books and Forms, dated 1st April 1930''] Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information''. Published by the League of Nations at Geneva from 1924. These books have been digitised separately in [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6321/20160901214707/http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/league/otcgi/digilib/llscgi60-4a08.html Chapters]. Northwestern University Library Evanston, IL, USA, archived webpages. Chapters relating to British Empire/ India or India, which contain details about the structure of the Army, training schools etc. Catalogue entries for India, followed by pdf links.
**[https://archive.org/stream/Sikhs#page/n137/mode/2up "Recruiting"] , Chapter V, page 106 ''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Sikhs'' by Captain A H Bingley, 7th (Duke of Connaught’s Own) Bengal Infantry. Compiled under the orders of the Government of India. 1899 Archive.org
***[https://archive.org/stream/sikhsofpunjab00parruoft#page/104/mode/2up "Recruiting Methods"] [WW1] Chapter VI page 104 ''The Sikhs of the Punjab'' by R E Parry late Indian Army Reserve of Officers; sometime Acting Captain and adjutant 2/15th Ludhiana Sikhs. Sometime attached 35th Sikhs. [1921] Archive.org.
** ''Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs'' by A E Barstow 2/11th Sikh Regiment (late 15th Ludhiana Sikhs) 1928. 1940 reprint of 1928 edition, is available to read on line on the [http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/displayPage.jsp?ID=2673&page=1&CategoryID=1&Searched= Panjab Digital Library].[https://archive.org/details/sikhs-handbook-for-indian-army/mode/2up Archive.org 1928 edition]
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.92297/page/n3/mode/2up ''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Pathans''] by Major R. T. I. Ridgway, 40th Pathans. 1910. Archive.org, mirror from Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499098 ''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Hindustan Musalmans and Musalmans of the Eastern Punjab''] by W. Fitz G. Bourne 1914 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.162536/mode/2up ''Indian Munitions Board : Industrial Handbook 1919''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/guidetohindustan00rank/page/96 "Military Phrases"] page 96 ''A guide to Hindustani in Persian and Roman character : specially designed for the use of officers and men serving in India, including colloquial phrases, a collection of arzis, with transliteration and English translations'' by G S A Ranking Surg.-Lieut.-Col., Indian Medical Service. Fourth Edition, Revised and enlarged 1897, first published 1889. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/language-of-the-camp/mode/2up ''Dictionary: Language of the Camp. Army Hindustani and Other Soldier Slang''] by Charles Tustin Kamps 2022. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin_r2s8/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Defence of Duffer's Drift''] by Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton with a foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell 1949 reprint, first published 1904. It is stated "Translated into Urdu for use of the Indian Army". [https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin/mode/2up 1986 edition] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24842 Gutenberg.org 1905 USA edition] A book on small unit tactics. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defence_of_Duffer%27s_Drift Wikipedia article].
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