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*[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://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/DnY4AQAAMAAJ Google Books version]
:[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://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Gallant_Sepoys_and_Sowars/eZABAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1 ''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.
*[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.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by [Charles] John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3164 Archive.org mirror version]. John Morris was in the British Army from 1914, commissioned in 1915 (Leicestershire Regiment), then an officer with the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]] from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919) and Waziristan, with headquarters at [[Lansdowne]], near the Himalayas. He took part in the 1922 Mount Everest Expedition as transport officer, and trekked in Chinese Turkestan in 1927. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Morris_(anthropologist) John Morris (anthropologist)] Wikipedia.*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indian-cavalryman-by-guest-s-pdf/ ''Indian Cavalryman''] by Captain Freddie Guest, [Reginald Edwin Guest] 1959. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3146 Archive.org mirror version].
:Recommended by Peter Moore in [[Military reading list#Other|Military reading list]] who says "Selected in England to be trained as an Officer Cadet in Wellington, Southern India, he was commissioned into the 8th King George’s Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army... This story covers the period between the wars and up to the end of the World War. He saw active service in the North-West Frontier; Africa; China and was the first prisoner-of-war to escape from the Japanese in Hong Kong; ending the war as the Equitation Instructor at the Officer Cadet School in Bangalore”. His earlier book ''Escape From The Bloodied Sun'' was a more detailed account of his escape from Hong Kong when he was an officer in the Middlesex Regiment.
*See [[John Masters]] for two online autobiographies covering his time in the Indian Army, c 1935-1947, initially with the [[4th Gurkha Rifles]], ''Bugles and a Tiger'' and ''Road Past Mandalay''.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.237136 ''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Gurkhas''] Compiled under the orders of the Government by Lieut- Colonel Eden Vansittart 2nd Bn 10th Gurkha Rifles. revised by Major B U Nicolay 1st Bn, 4th Gurkha Rifles 1915 (Reprint 1918), Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection, catalogued as Gurkhas (1915).
*:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.238360 ''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Gurkhas''] Compiled under the orders of the Government by Major C J Morris, late 2nd Bn, 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles Second edition 1936, revised by the author, first published 1933. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection, catalogued as Gurkhas (1936).
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1924-garhwalis-handbook-for-the-indian-army-by-henderson-s-pdf ''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Garhwalis''] revised by Lt.-Col. K. Henderson 1924, original text by John Thorold Evatt. Pdf download PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2242/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278759 ''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Kumaonis 1933 (1941 Reprint)''] by A Latham Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/stream/ashorthistoryofl00jeha#page/n15/mode/2up/search/Sikh Page viii] and [https://archive.org/stream/ashorthistoryofl00jeha#page/44/mode/2up/search/Sikh page 44] ''A Short history of the lives of Bombay opium smokers'' by Rustom Pestanji Jehangir 1893 Archive.org. Details and a comment about the use of opium by Sikh soldiers.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100043188480.0x000001 ''Russian Advances in Asia''] Prepared at the Topographical and Statistical Department, War Office. (The first portion reprinted from a paper prepared by Colonel Cooke.) Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division. [London], 1873. British Library Digital. "For Official Circulation Only"
:[https://archive.org/details/defenceindiaast00macggoog ''The Defence of India: a Strategical Study''] by Major-General Sir C M Macgregor Quartermaster General of India 1884 Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1885-indias-danger-and-englands-duty-history-of-russian-advance-upon-afghanistan-by-russell-s-pdf/ ''India's Danger, and England's Duty with reference to Russia's Advance into the territory upon the borders of Afghanistan''] by Richard Russell 1885. PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books /Afghanistan.[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1082 Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofindia00coll "The Defence of India"] by Lieut.-General Sir Edwin Collen ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' March 1906. Archive.org
*''The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia'' by Peter Hopkirk 1992. [https://archive.org/details/greatgame00pete Book File 1]. [https://archive.org/details/greatgamestruggl00hopk Book File 2] Archive.org Lending Library. Published in the UK with title ''The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia''. “The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia… When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay 2000 miles apart; by the end, this distance had shrunk to twenty miles at some points.”
:[https://archive.org/details/settingeastablaz00pete ''Setting the East Ablaze : Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia''] by Peter Hopkirk 1985 Archive.org Lending Library. 1920s-1930s.
: Peter Hopkirk was with ''The Times'' of London for nineteen years, as chief reporter and Middle and Far East specialist.
*[https://archive.org/details/tournamentofshad00meye ''Tournament of Shadows : the Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia''] by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac 1999. Archive.org Lending Library. Also available as a pdf download [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1999-tournament-of-shadows-the-great-game-and-the-race-for-empire-in-central-asia-by-meyer-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If the download link does not display, locate under Books/Central Asia.[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3713 Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n7/mode/2up'' Indian Defence Problem: A Study''] by Capt G V Modak 1933 Archive.org. The author “spent many years in active military service in an important Indian State”. [https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n27/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n29/mode/2up Statistical Contents]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qfgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Duties of Judge Advocates: Compiled from Her Majesty’s and the Hon. East India Company’s Military Regulations…''] by Captain R M Hughes 12th Regiment Bombay Army, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Scinde Field Force. 1845 Google Books
