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**''Alphabetical List of the Honourable East India Company’s Bombay Civil Servants, from 1798, to 1839 ...'' Edward Dodwell and James Samuel Miles 1839
**A similar listing for Bengal is available online , together with a later listing for Madras and Bombay, refer below.
*[httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2abrowse/records.aspx?cat=059r/h/6b309d8d-ab30-iorv_1&cid=140d1-6#1b9d6-6 79a8464ffb9e India Office Serials '''IOR/V/6'''] 1768-1948 This series comprises serials published or printed by, or on behalf of, the East India Company and the India Office. The serials include ''Lists of the Company's Servants'' 1768-1799, the ''East India Register and Directory'' (later ''India List'') 1803-1895, the ''India Office List'' 1886-1947 and the ''India Office Establishment'' 1884-1948. Some are available online, refer '''[[Directories online]]''', including the section '''[[Directories online#India List and India Office List|India List and India Office List]]'''. These Lists usually provide short records of service, providing the date of appointment, promotions and qualifications for individuals. *[httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2adetails/records.aspx?cat=059r/56e0e03f-6565-iorv_5&cid=142aa-1#1ba09-1 b9bb7b324eaf Histories of Services '''IOR/V/12'''] 1875-1955. This series includes records of service for overseas Indian Civil Service personnel and for other civil servants of gazetted rank. For editions available online also see the previously mentioned [[Directories online#India List and India Office List|India List and India Office List]].*[httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2abrowse/records.aspx?cat=059r/h/052f9695-4f4f-iorv_5&cid=149b0-2#1b65e-2 2d52a6469cba Civil Lists '''IOR/V/13'''] 1840-1958. This series includes all the issues of civil lists of the Government of India and of the provincial governments. Coverage is usually restricted to gazetted officers in the main series of lists, but there are a few supplementary lists of subordinate services and also some fuller departmental establishment lists which include non-gazetted appointments, in particular the Telegraph, Indo-European Telegraph, Public Works and Railways departments. For editions available online also see the previously mentioned [[Directories online#India List and India Office List|India List and India Office List]].
*Occasionally a person may have been thought to be part of the Indian Civil Service, including the Indian Political Service, but was in fact "attached", belonging still to the Army, in which case the ''Indian Army List''s may provide information. For editions online, see [[Directories online#Army Lists|Directories online - Army Lists]] including the separate page [[Indian Army List online]].
*Another source of information in the India Office Records at the British Library include [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/be7a2de3-ffce-4b2c-b9c9-9d0f425fae92 Government Gazettes '''IOR/V/11'''] 1831-1947.
:The Government Gazettes were the official newspapers of the Government of India and its provincial governments. The series held are: ''Gazettes of India'' 1865-1947, ''Calcutta'' 1832-1947, ''Assam'' 1874-1947, ''Bihar and Orissa'' 1912-1947, ''United Provinces'', 1850-1947, ''Fort St George'' 1832-1947, ''Bombay 1831-1947'', ''Punjab'' 1872-1947, ''North-West Frontier Province'' 1932-1947, ''Central Provinces'' 1875-1947, ''Coorg 1885-1947'', ''Sind'' 1869-1947, ''Burma'' 1875-1947. Summaries of the contents of each series are to be found in the handlists in the Reading Room of the British Library.
:Some issues of the ''Gazette of India'' and the ''Calcutta Gazette'' are available online, refer [[Newspapers and journals online]].
===Uncovenanted service===
*[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://books.google.com.au/books?id=onEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, and Oude''] by William Edwards, Judge of Benares, and late Magistrate and Collector of Budaon in Rohilcund. 1858 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/b28709561/page/n9/mode/2up ''An episode of the rebellion and mutiny in Oudh of 1857 and 1858 ...''] by George Yeoward late Head Clerk of Gondah in the Province of Oudh 1876 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HkOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Anecdotes and Reminiscences of Service in Bengal''] [by A. L. M. Phillips (Alfred Lisle March Phillips) 1878] Google Books. He arrived in India in 1846 and retired 1873. At the commencement of the Indian Mutiny, he was Magistrate and Collector of the [[Etah]] district, and his paths crossed with the author William Edwards (previous book) who was his cousin. Subsequently he was Magistrate and Collector of [[Agra]] and its district June 1857 to March 1863, then Civil and Criminal Judge of [[Aligarh|Allyghur]], then Judge at [[Gorakhpur|Goruckpore]], close to the Himalayas.
*[https://archive.org/details/personaladventur00thor ''The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny''] by Mark Thornhill 1884 Archive.org. Also available as a current reprint by Cambridge University Press [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ihP7E49bDYC&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books].
*[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.
* ''Life of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke, Colonel-Commandant of Royal Engineers'' edited by Col. RH Vetch 1905 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflieutgener00vetc/page/n239 "Member of Council of the Viceroy of India 1875-1880"] pages 193-221. He was head of the Indian Public Works Administration.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1128/page/n1/mode/2up ''Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sir Douglas Forsyth''] edited by his daughter Ethel Forsyth 1887. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR. Born 1827, he went to India in 1848 to the Civil Service, having passed top of the class at the East India College at Haileybury. During his career he was involved in the Indian Mutiny, was Commissioner in the Punjab from 1860, [he was in this role at Jullundur and Umballa], was involved with the Kooka Outbreak of 1872, headed diplomatic missions to Kashgar in 1873 and Mandalay in 1875. In 1877 he resigned from the Civil Service and became involved with Indian Railway companies, and a company building a harbour and railway in Portuguese India. He died 1886.
*[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/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. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2943/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
: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 HathiTrust Digital Library version] where images are rotatable. The Consulate was at Kashgar.
*[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 two 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; and ''The Guardians'', (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://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3511/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. [https://archive.org/details/shaftofsunlightm0000maso Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library version]. [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/youngmanscountry0000smit/page/n7 ''A Young Man's Country : letters of a subdivisional officer of the Indian Civil Service 1936-1937''] by W. H. Saumarez Smith 1977. Archive.org Lending Library. The author was in the Indian Civil Service 1934-1947. The letters were written when he was at Madaripur, in the district of [[Faridpur]], in East Bengal (now Bangladesh).
*[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. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3522 Archive.org mirror version]. [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.
*[https://archive.org/details/enchantedfrontie0000rust/page/n7 ''Enchanted Frontiers: Sikkim, Bhutan, and India's Northeastern Borderlands''] by Nari Rustomji 1971. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. An Indian born c 1918, he was educated in England, and returned, appointed to the ICS, in 1942.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelerstalemem0000cand/page/n9 ''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India''] by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author’s husband was a metallurgist/chemical engineer who worked for the Inspectorate of Armaments in ordnance factories at [[Ishapore]] and Ambernath (Bombay Presidency) 1941-46, having been transferred from [[Hong Kong]].
*[https://archive.org/details/racesexclassunde0000ball ''Race, sex, and class under the Raj : imperial attitudes and policies and their critics, 1793-1905''] by Kenneth Ballhatchet 1980. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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