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*''Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years Residence in India'' by James Forbes Google Books. 1813 edition, in four volumes, with illustrations. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q8hcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pY55WvIWnjsC&pg=PR3 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Vfz_fkzFNsoC&pg=PR3 Volume III], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Unr6Ub388d0C&pg=PR3 Volume IV]. 2nd edition 1834, revised by his daughter [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=r2IOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rlkOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II], with 1835 edition [http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2777/show/2697 ''Illustrations to Oriental Memoirs''] Digital Library of Houston University. The author arrived in Bombay in 1766, aged 16 to work as a writer.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32669/2015.32669.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol29#page/n139/mode/2up "A Young Civilian in Bengal in 1805"] by Isaac Henry Townley Roberdeau, appointed Writer 29th August 1799, page 110, ''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'', Jan-June 1925. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. He was appointed to [[Mymensingh]] where he died 1808.
*See [[Governor General]] (20 March 1835 to 4 March 1836) for books about Charles, Lord Metcalfe, born 1785, who arrived as a writer in 1801, his father being an East India Company Director.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500675/2015.500675.Bengal-Past#page/n189/mode/2up "Extracts from the Diary of Emily, wife of John Talbot Shakespear, Bengal Civil Service" [June- July 1814<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 133 ''Bengal, Past and Present'', Volume VI, July-September 1910. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*''Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty Years in the East With Revelations of Life in the Zenana'' by Fanny Parkes [Parks] (sometimes seen as Fanny Parkes Parlby). [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg01parluoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg02parluoft Volume II] 1850 Archive.org. She came to India in 1822 with her husband Charles Crawford Parks, a civil servant, appointed a Writer in 1816. [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview35 "Lady of the Raj"] by William Dalrymple 10 June 2007 ''The Guardian''. [http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/fanny-parks-case-study/ "Fanny Parks (1794-1875): her ‘Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan’, her Museum, and her Cabinet of Curiosities"] by Joanna Goldsworthy. Case study from ''East India Company At Home, 1757-1857''.
*[https://archive.org/details/ignorantinindia00vernrich ''An Ignorant in India''] by R E Venede 1911 Archive.org The author was visiting his brother<ref>[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n14/mode/1up Page ix] ''Letters to his Wife'' by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org</ref> who was a Collector in an indigo region in Bengal.
* ''Diversions of an Indian Political'' by Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276384 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/3428 ''Forty-four years a Public Servant''] by C A Kincaid 1934. Catalogued with additional title ''For consulation only''. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. Elsewhere, the author is catalogued a Judge, 1870-1954 and the book "Justice, Administration of - India".
* ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India'' by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209652 ''SW Persia: A Political Officers Diary 1907-1914''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
