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*[http://archive.org/stream/memoriesofrugbyi00arburich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Memories of Rugby and India'']
by Sir Alexander J. Arbuthnot 1910 Archive.org. The author was in the Madras Civil Service from 1842 for thirty years.
*[https://archive.org/details/servantofjohncom00keen ''A Servant of "John Company"; being the Recollections of an Indian Official''] by Henry George Keene 1897 Archive.org. Born 1825, he was in North West India 1847-1882 when he was obliged to retire, having served for thirty five years.
*[http://archive.org/stream/thirtyfiveyearsi00elsm#page/n7/mode/2up ''Thirty-five years in the Punjab, 1858-1893''] by G. R. Elsie. "The last Haileybury Civilian who worked in that Province" 1908 Archive.org
*''Life in the Mofussil; or, The Civilian in Lower Bengal'' by G Graham (1878) Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeinmofussilor01grah#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeinmofussilor02grah#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 2]. The author went to India c 1860.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sirrobertgsandem00tuckrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Sir Robert G. Sandeman K.C.S.I., peaceful conqueror of Baluchistan''] by A.L.P. Tucker 1921 Archive.org. Born 1835, he joined the Bengal Army in 1856 and the Civil Service in 1859, working in the North West from 1861 until his death in 1892.
*''Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian'' by John Beames may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. He served as Collector of Cuttack from 1875 to 1878 and earlier as Collector of Balasore District from 1869 to 1873. For more details about this book, and John Beames, see the [[Cuttack]] page.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/amongindianrajah00frasiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Among Indian rajahs and ryots; a civil servant's recollections & impressions of thirty-seven years of work & sport in the Central Provinces & Bengal''] by Andrew H. L Fraser 1912 Archive.org. He joined the Civil Service in 1871 and became Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fraser_(civil_servant) Wikipedia]
*''Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian'' by John Beames may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. He served as Collector of Cuttack from 1875 to 1878 and earlier as Collector of Balasore District from 1869 to 1873. For more details about this book, and John Beames, see the [[Cuttack]] page.*[httphttps://archive.org/stream/thirtyfiveyearsi00elsm#page/n7/modedetails/2up littleworldofind00cars ''Thirty-five years in the Punjab, 1858-1893The Little World of an Indian District Officer''] by GRobert Carstairs 1912. RArchive. Elsieorg. "The last Haileybury Civilian who worked He was in that Province" 1908 Archivethe Bengal Civil Service 1874-1903.org
*''The diary of a civilian's wife in India, 1877-1882''
by Mrs. Robert Moss King 1884 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/diaryofcivilians01kinguoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/diaryofcivilians02kinguoft Volume II]. Her Husband was Collector at Meerut at the commencement of the book and in 1878 was appointed Officiating Judge
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiaweserved035205mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''The India We Served''] by Sir Walter Roper Lawrence 1928. Archive.org. He joined the Punjab Civil Service c 1879 He left India October 1903 but returned for the Royal visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales November 1905 to March 1906. During WW1 he was involved with setting up the hospitals in Brighton for Indian soldiers.
*''India as I knew it, 1885–1925'' by Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer 1925 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, with a choice of three different files. in 1885 he was posted to Shahpur in the Punjab and retired as lieutenant-governor of the Punjab in 1919. His actions during the unrest of 1919 were controversial.
*[https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/120/mode/2up ''And that reminds me
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India''] Part III India (page 123)
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915 Archive.org. The author, probably born c late 1850s commenced with the Civil Service in India in 1892, having previously been with the Police in [[Burma]]. He was appointed as Deputy Commissioner at [[Chanda]], the most southerly District of Central Provinces, part of the Nagpur Division [https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/154/mode/2up page 154] He retired on medical grounds in 1906.
