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:[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.
* ''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.
*[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.
