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*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/ignorantinindia00vernrich ''An Ignorant in India''] by R E Venede 1911 Archive.org The author was visiting a friend who was a Collector in an indigo region in Bengal
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/527927 ''Diversions of an Indian Political''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion 1932. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276384 Archive.org version] (different file). Experiences of a political officer in Northern India from 1892. He also wrote [https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] 1910, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh, and a further book on [[Iran|Eastern Persia]].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209125 ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India''] by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 Archive.org version]. Sir John was Governor of United Provinces with many royal friends. Hunting largely between 1907 and 1912, including tiger hunting in the jungles of Tarai, Cooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal. The author joined the Indian Civil Service c 1877 when he was posted to the North-Western Provinces.
*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528179 Pdf download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528179 Archive.org version]. The author was a member of the Civil Service in Burma from 1912, and his autobiography covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930.
*''The Men Who Ruled India'', published in three volumes, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126942 ''The Founders''] (1953), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126942 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127071 ''The Guardians, Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127071 Archive.org version]; and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127070 ''The Guardians, Volume lI''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127070 Archive.org version] (1954) by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym) are available as pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India. The author was Philip Mason who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1928, and his books are about members of the Indian Civil Service.
:Listen to the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/philip-mason/ 1978 interview Philip Mason, with transcripts]. He talks of his training for the ICS, his work as a court official and map surveyor, and of his life as an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210179 ''The Jewel In The Lotus''] by Sir Basil John Gould 1957. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection (catalogued 1921). Full title: ''The Jewel in the Lotus: Recollections of an Indian Political''. Gould's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Gould Wikipedia page] advises he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1907, and served as a Political Officer in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet from 1935 to 1945.
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