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*[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/in.ernet.dli.2015.31852/page/n5/mode/2up ''A District Office in Northern India with some Suggestions on Administration''] by C W Whish, Bengal Civil Service 1892. Archive.org. Whish appears to have been located at Rae Bareli, Oudh.

*[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.

*[https://archive.org/details/administrativehi0000misr/page/n5 ''The Administrative History of India, 1834-1947; General Administration''] by B B Misra 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.

:[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/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/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''.

*[https://archive.org/details/littleworldofind00cars ''The Little World of an Indian District Officer''] by Robert Carstairs 1912. Archive.org. He was in the Bengal Civil Service 1874-1903.

*''The diary of a civilian's wife in India, 1877-1882'' 
by Mrs. Robert Moss King 1884 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/diaryofcivilians01kinguoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/diaryofcivilians02kinguoft Volume II]. Her Husband was Collector at Meerut at the commencement of the book and in 1878 was appointed Officiating Judge

:[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromindia00wilsuoft ''Letters from India''] by Lady Wilson (A C Macleod) [Anne Campbell] 1911 Archive.org

*[https://archive.org/details/ritchiesinindiae00ritc/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Ritchies in India; extracts from the correspondence of William Ritchie, 1817-1862; and personal reminiscences of Gerald Ritchie''] compiled and edited by Gerald Ritchie 1920 Archive.org. William Ritchie was of the Calcutta Bar and Inner Temple, Member of the Council of the Governor-general, appointed Advocate-General c 1856 who died March 22, 1862, age 45. Gerald Ritchie was a Bengal Civilian 1875-1901.

*[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.

*[https://archive.org/details/frompunjaubpome00dyso/page/n7/mode/2up ''From a Punjaub Pomegranate Grove''] by C C Dyson 1913. Archive.org. The author was possibly the wife of Bob, an Assistant Revenue Collector, and Magistrate, at Hariana, in the "Punjaub irrigation colonies". (Page 68 refers to the author as "the lady of our English Sahib", which generally refers to a wife, however she appears to be middle-aged and perhaps an Assistant Revenue Collector is more likely to be a younger man, so for Bob to be a son or younger brother would suit the narrative better. Details of the author could not be traced.) Republished in 1985 and 1993 under the title ''Fragments from Indian Life''. From the contents, the approximate period covered is 1908-1912, however the narrative may not be strictly chronological. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hariana Hariana] Wikipedia.

* ''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.

*[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.

*[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]].

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