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*[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://books.google.com.au/books?id=lgIRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP13 ''Alphabetical list of the honourable East India Company's Bengal civil servants, from the year 1780, to the year 1838 etc''] by Edward Dodwell, James Samuel Miles (1839) Google Books. Use two page option to view.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=I5cxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A General Register of the Hon'ble East India Company's Civil Servants of the Bengal Establishment from 1790 to 1842 ... To which is Added a List of the Governors General of India''] by Rāmachandra Dāsa, Henry Thoby Prinsep 1844 Google Books. The Alphabetical List commences [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=I5cxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 here]
*[httphttps://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZtdkZhd&tag=Alphabetical%20list%20of%20the%20honourable%20East%20India%20company%20Madras%20civil%20servants%20%20:%20from%20the%20year%201780%20to%20the%20year%201839#book1/3 jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZtdlZhd ''Alphabetical list of the Honourable East India Company’s Madras civil servants : from the year 1780 to the year 1839''] by Dodwell and Miles Tamil Virtual Library 1839. Tamil Virtual Library. Catalogued as ''Alphabetical list of the honourable East India company Madras civil servants'', with authors not stated.
*[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
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9TU6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Alphabetical List of the Honourable East India Company's Bombay Civil Servants 1798-1839''] by Dodwell and Miles 1839. Google Books. Use two page option to view.
:[https://archive.org/details/bureaucracyinind0000misr/page/n5 ''The Bureaucracy in India : an historical analysis of development up to 1947''] by B. B. Misra 1977. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[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/britishbureaucra0000span/page/n5/mode/2up ''British Bureaucracy in India : Status, Policy, and the I.C.S. in the late 19th century''] by Bradford Spangenberg 1976. Archive.org Books to Borrow/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.
*''Narrative of the Life of a Gentleman Long Resident in India'' by G F Grand. [https://archive.org/details/narrativelifeag00grangoog/page/n6/mode/2up 1814 edition], [https://archive.org/details/narrativeoflifeo00graniala/page/n5/mode/2up 1910 edition] edited , with Notes, for the Calcutta Historical Society by Walter K Firminger. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buck/page/174/mode/1up "Grand, George Francois (1748?-1821)"] page 174 ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' by C E Buckland (Indian Civil Service, retired) 1906 Archive.org. 1766 Bengal Army; 1776 nominated to a writership; 1779 court action involving his wife (see Busteed's book ''Echoes'' on the page [[Calcutta# Historical books online|Calcutta]]); subsequently divorced and she went to Europe and married Talleyrand; 1782 Collector of Tirhut and promoted the indigo manufacture in Bihar to his own advantage;1788 appointed Judge and Magistrate at Patna, and eventually dismissed.
*[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''.
* ''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/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.462477/mode/2up ''The Company Of Cain''] by Al. Carthill (pseudonym) 1922. Archive.org. "An account of certain murder cases". “The facts themselves will be true, although the details may be fictitious or altered”. The author's full name was Bennet Christian Huntingdon Calcraft-Kennedy (1871–1935), sometimes seen as B C Kennedy, who went to India in 1891 and worked as a Collector and Judge in Bombay Presidency, retiring in 1926.<ref>[https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-1/ Kennedy papers] s-asian.cam.ac.uk; [https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-2/ s-asian.cam.ac.uk link 2]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OZI1aojDb1QC&pg=PA263 Page 263] ''Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930'' by Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.4830/page/n3/mode/2up ''Madampur''] by Al. Carthill (pseudonym, see item above) 1931. Archive.org. Some editions may have had the additional title ''Experiences of a District Officer in India''. Not a real place name, but the author’s "first independent charge" and refers to a time "about a generation ago", possibly c 1911.
*[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 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.
* ''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/letterstonobody00wilsiala/page/n7 ''Letters to Nobody, 1908-1913''] by the Rt. Hon. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson 1921. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8921/page/n4/mode/2up 2nd file, with images correctly rotated]. Archive.org. He came to India in 1908 as Finance Minister. ([https://archive.org/details/cu31924028345993/page/n9 ''Letters to Somebody; a Retrospect''] by the Rt. Hon. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson 1922 Archive.org. Contains minimal comments about India, including his appointment pages 82-83.)
*[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.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403 ''Chinese Central Asia''] by C P Skrine. Indian Civil Service, British Consul General in Chinese Turkistan 1922-1924. First published 1926 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403/2015.210403.Chinese-Central#page/n401/mode/2up Index].[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001872231 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library version] where images are rotatable. The Consulate was at Kashgar. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarmont_Percival_Skrine Clarmont Percival Skrine] Wikipedia.
:Also see [[Norperforce]] for more about the Kashgar Mission during WW1 prior to 1922.
*''Indian Embers'' by Lady Lawrence, first published 1948. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136064/page/n15 Archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr/page/n3 1991 reprint Archive.org Lending Library edition] with an "Introduction" by Kenneth Wimmel, [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr_0 2nd file]. "Jane Rosamund Napier was already a published author...when she married Henry Lawrence in 1914 and set sail with him for India. She was his second wife...a mature woman of thirty-six..." The book covers the period to 1918. Her husband was a member of the Indian Civil Service, served as a district officer, and was Commissioner in Sind from 1916. Per Wikipedia, Henry Staveley Lawrence was acting Governor of Bombay 20 March 1926 to 8 December 1928.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinkurdis00hayw/page/n9 ''Two Years in Kurdistan : Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918-1920''] by W R Hay, Captain, attached 24th Punjabis, Political Dept, Government of India. 1921 Archive.org. He was with the Civil Administration of [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]].
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6942/page/n1/mode/2up ''Pundits and Elephants: being the experiences of five years as Governor of an Indian Province''] by the Earl of Lytton. 1942. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. He became Governor of Bengal in 1922. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bulwer-Lytton,_2nd_Earl_of_Lytton Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton] Wikipedia.
*''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.
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/3428 ''Forty-four years a Public Servant''] by C A Kincaid 1934. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3428/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Elsewhere, the author is catalogued a Judge, 1870-1954 and the book "Justice, Administration of - India". He arrived in India in 1891.
* ''Impressions of an Indian Civil Servant'' by Roderick Donald MacLeod 1938 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278879 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. MacLeod worked from 1910 to 1934 in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000880.0x0002d8 ''Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service''] by Sir John Richard Cotton (b 1909). British Library Mss Eur F226/7 . Qatar Digital Library. A photocopy of a typewritten draft written c 1983. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171206135947/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383640/Sir-John-Cotton.html. ''The Telegraph'' Obituary 2002]. After spending his childhood in India, he returned in 1929, initially in the 8th (King George's Own) Light Cavalry, then joined the Indian Political Service in 1934 where he served in the Persian Gulf and in Aden, Addis Ababa in Abyssinia then a series of Indian princely states. After Independence he joined the British Foreign Service. *[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. British Library Mss Eur F226/28 Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written c 1980 by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery,and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000040 page 33] and his postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*''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.
