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*[[wikipedia:Indian Civil Service|Indian Civil Service]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Administrators_in_British_India Category: Administrators in British India] Wikipedia
*[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?203758 “The Men Who Ruled India”] by Sagarika Ghose, ''Outlook'', 25 June 1997
*[http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2089/1/Coombs_CEB_History_PhD_2011.pdf.pdf ''State Change in the Punjab: Professional and Personal Experiences of British Civil Servants over India’s independence and beyond''] by Catherine Eleanor Brown Coombs. Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of PhD, The University of Leeds, School of History September 2011.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/indianpoliticals0000crea/page/n3 ''The Indian Political Service: a Study in Indirect Rule''] by Terence Creagh Coen 1971. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/districtofficeri0000hunt/page/n5 ''The District Officer in India, 1930-1947''] by Roland Hunt and John Harrison 1980. Archive.org Lending Library. A study of the workings of the administrative system in India in the last years of British rule, based on statements by ex-members of the Indian Civil Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/rulingcasteimper00gilm ''The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj''] by David Gilmour 2006, first published 2005. Archive.org Lending Library. *[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/392165-annals-of-two-extinct-families-of-the-eighteenth-century-von-luders-and-light-with-some-account-of-their-vicisitudes-in-hamburg-bath-the-east-indies-british-guiana-and-canada?viewer=1&page=101 Chapter V page 75] (digital page 101) ''Annals of two extinct families of the eighteenth century (Von Lüders and Light) : with some account of their vicisitudes in Hamburg, Bath, the East Indies, British Guiana, and Canada'' by John Alexander Temple 1910. FamilySearch Digital Library. Note, you must be signed in to [[FamilySearch]] to view this book. William Light was appointed writer 1765 Madras Presidency, died suddenly 1784 of an attack of gout in the stomach, age 35. [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/392165-annals-of-two-extinct-families-of-the-eighteenth-century-von-luders-and-light-with-some-account-of-their-vicisitudes-in-hamburg-bath-the-east-indies-british-guiana-and-canada?viewer=1&page=6 Contents].
*''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.
