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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===

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'''Also see [[Directories online]]''', particularly the category [[Directories online#India List and India Office List| '''India List and India Office List''']].

*[http://www.archive.org/details/recordofservices00prinrich ''Record of services of the Honourable East India Company's civil servants in the Madras presidency, from 1741 to 1858...''] by Charles Campbell Prinsep (1885) Archive.org

*[http://books.google.com/books?id=WBlcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 "Return of the Officers in each Court of Justice in India"] in ''Sessional Papers Printed by the Order of the House Of Lords: Session 1852-53'', Volume XIII, Accounts and Papers East India Company. Google Books

*[https://archive.org/details/memorialsoldhai00collgoog ''Memorials of Old Haileybury College''] by Frederick Charles Danvers, Sir M Monier-Williams etc. 1894 Archive.org. ''An Account of the Origin of the East India Company’s Civil Service and of their College in Hertfordshire''. Contains Lists and details of the men who attended the College, which closed in December 1857.

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276026 ''The Indian Civil Service 1601-1930''] by L.S.S O’Malley, Indian Civil Service, Retired. 1931. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.

*[https://archive.org/details/indiancivilservi00smitrich ''The Indian Civil Service as a profession. A lecture delivered at Trinity College, Dublin, on June 10th, 1903''] by Vincent A Smith. Indian Civil Service (Retired) 1903 Archive.org.

*''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.

*[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''.

*[http://archive.org/stream/fiftysevensomeac00keenrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts during the Revolt of the Bengal Army''] by Henry George Keene 1883 Archive.org

*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R24BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''How I won the Victoria Cross''] by Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Assistant Commissioner in Oudh, 1860 Google Books

*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reynelltaylorcbc00gamb#page/n9/mode/2up ''Reynell Taylor, C.B., C.S.I. a biography''] by E. Gambier Parry 1888 Archive.org. The subject joined the Bengal Army in 1840 , serving as a Cavalry Officer until c 1846. He subsequently served as Commissioner in various areas in the North West until his retirement in 1877.

*[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.

:[https://archive.org/details/heretherememorie00keenrich ''Here and There: Memories, Indian and Other''] by H G Keene 1906 Archive.org.

*[https://archive.org/details/forwardpolicyit00bruc ''The Forward Policy and its Results; or, Thirty-five Years' Work amongst the Tribes on our North-Western Frontier of India''] by Richard Isaac Bruce, formerly Political Agent, Beluchistan, and late Commissioner and Superintendent Derajat Division, Punjab, India. 1900 Archive.org. The author arrived in India in 1862 and retired 1896. The Forward Policy was initiated by Sandeman, refer book above.

*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromdiaryi00clay ''Leaves from a Diary in Lower Bengal''] by C. S. [Arthur Lloyd Clay] 1896 Archive.org. With illustrations. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005A67E British Library Digital Collection] with rotatable images. He joined the Bengal Civil Service 1862 and the diary covers the years to 1870. He retired 1890.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-FjmQ4xTgkQC&pg=PA59 Page 59] ''Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge'' edited by John Venn Google Books</ref>

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174722 ''The Garden Of Fidelity Being The Autobiography Of Flora Annie Steel 1847-1929''] 1930 (first published 1929). Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Annie_Steel Flora Annie Steel] Wikipedia. Married to Henry William Steel, a member of the Indian Civil Service, they were in India 1868 to 1889, mainly in the Punjab. During her time in India she became involved with education, and subsequently became an Inspectress of Schools. Also see [[Food and Drink]]. After leaving India she became a novelist.

*''Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian'' by John Beames [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99022 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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.

*[https://archive.org/details/indianhomememori00cottuoft ''Indian & Home Memories''] by Sir Henry Cotton 1910. Archive.org. He spent 35 years in the Indian Civil Service - he arrived in Calcutta in 1867 and resigned in 1902. He became Chief Commissioner for Assam in 1896 (page 226).

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.101702 ''Some Personal Experiences''] by Sir Bampfylde Fuller 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. May also have been published in some editions as ''Some Personal Memories'', and ''Some Personal Reminiscences''. He passed for the Indian Civil Service in 1873 and became Chief Commissioner of Assam in 1902 (page 103). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bampfylde_Fuller Bampfylde Fuller] Wikipedia. He became first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam 1905 and resigned in 1906.

*[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.

* ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.'' by W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. He was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India.

* ''India as I knew it, 1885–1925'' by Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer 1925 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276594 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Additional files are also available. 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.

* ''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]].

* ''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.

*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1973-macartney-at-kashgar-by-skrine-s-pdf/ ''Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918''] by C.P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale. 1973. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.

:Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1951-an-english-lady-in-chinese-turkestan-by-lady-macartney-s-pdf/ ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan''] first published 1931. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.

:A later biography is ''The Diplomat of Kashgar: A Very Special Agent. The Life of Sir George Macartney, 18 January 1867-19 May 1945'' by James McCarthy.

:Also see [[Norperforce]] for more about the Kashgar Mission during WW1 prior to 1922.

*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528179 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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, by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym): ''The Founders'' (1953), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126942 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; ''The Guardians, Volume I'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127071 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ; and ''The Guardians, Volume II'', (1954) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127070 Archive.org version], mirror from 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.

:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1978-a-shaft-of-sunlight-memories-of-a-varied-life-by-mason-s-pdf/ ''A Shaft of Sunlight–Memories of a Varied Life''] by Philip Mason 1978. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download does not display, located under Books/Indian Subcontinent. [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/philip-mason/a-shaft-of-sunlight-memories-of-a-varied-life/ Review of the book] kirkusreviews.com.

:[https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/feb/03/guardianobituaries1 "Philip Mason obituary: Last witness to the Raj"] by Hugh Tinker 2 Feb 1999. ''The Guardian''

: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.

*[http://apnaorg.com/books/english/reminiscences-discreet-indiscreet/book.php?fldr=book ''Reminiscences, Discreet and Indiscreet''] by T. N. Kaul (Triloki Nath), 1982. Website of "Academy of the Punjab in North America". An Indian, he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1937.

*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1978-peacocks-calling-one-mans-experience-of-india-1939-1947-by-cowley-s-pdf/ ''Peacocks Calling: one man’s experience of India. 1939-1947''] by Bill [William] Cowley, 1978. Published in India 1977? Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/cowley-papers/ Description of the contents of the book] based on papers at the Centre of South Asian Studies. s-asian.cam.ac.uk. Appointed to the ICS 1939 and became a Magistrate in the Punjab with promotions to lst class Magistrate. Became involved with the Boy Scouts and took over administration of Youth Movement and Boy Scouts.

====Administrative====

*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Punjab Record or Reference Book for Civil Officers Volume 4 1869''] Contains circulars, with indexes, for 1869. Each section is numbered separately:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 Financial Circular Orders]; [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 Police Department Orders], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 commencing here]; [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP23 Account Department Orders]; [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP31 Jail Department Orders]; [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP35 Registration Circular Orders]; [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Supreme Government Orders], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA1 commencing here]; [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR21 Punjab Government Orders], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA1 commencing here]; [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR29 Selections from the records of the Office of the Financial Commissioner, Punjab 1869] Google Books

*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cxtYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 ‪''Manual of Rules and Regulations compiled for the use of Junior Members of the Madras Civil Service. Brought up to 31st January 1870'']‬ by William Donald Google Books

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