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*[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/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].
*''Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes'' by his Wife 1886 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife01edwa Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/memorialsoflife02edwa Volume II] . He entered the Bengal Army 1841, and subsequently was seconded to the Civil Service where he was Commissioner of Peshawar during the [[Indian Mutiny]].*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesofsocial015334mbp#page/n81/mode/2up/ "The Bengal Civil Service"] Chapter IV of ''Sketches of Social life in India'' by CT Buckland (1884) ex-Bengal Civil Service. Archive.org.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=-PdWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA45 ''Lives of Indian Officers: Illustrative of the History of the Civil and Military Service of India''] Volume 1 by John William Kaye (1867) gives, from p45, the background to the Civil Service. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-PdWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR15 Contents Volume 1] Google Books [http://www.archive.org/stream/livesofindianoff02kayeiala#page/n5/mode/2up Contents Volume 2] Archive.org
*''Thirty-eight years in India : from Juganath to the Himalaya Mountains'' by William Tayler, late Commissioner of Patna. 1881 Archive.org. [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924021024835 Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/details/thirtyeightyear03taylgoog Volume 2]. The author commenced work in the Bengal Civil Service in 1829.
*[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/thirtyyearsofshi00brad ''Thirty Years of Shikar''] by Sir Edward Braddon 1895 Archive.org.The [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/braddon-sir-edward-nicholas-coventry-5330 author] was in India from 1847, including the Civil Service, probably after the [[Indian Mutiny]]. Australian Dictionary of Biography. He left India in 1878, when his post disappeared following the amalgamation of Oudh and the North-Western Provinces, and later became a politician in Australia.
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsirrichar00thor ''General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India; a record of forty-three year's service as Soldier, Political Officer and Administrator''] by Thomas Henry Thornton 1898 Archive.org. Born 1821, Sir Richard served in the Bengal Army from 1838 for nearly twenty years. At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny he was Brigade-Major of the Gwalior Contingent which mutinied. Subsequently in 1859 he was appointed Political Agent at Gwalior, then two years later Governor-General’s Agent for the States of Central India, the first of several important posts, involving many confidential matters, finally retiring in March 1881.
*[http://archive.org/stream/thirtyfiveyearsi00elsm#page/n7/mode/2up ''Thirty-five years in the Punjab, 1858-1893''] by G. R. Elsie. "The last Haileybury Civilian who worked in that Province" 1908 Archive.org
*[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.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99022 ''Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian''] by John Beames is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India website. [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/stream/illustratednava05unkngoog#page/n143/mode/2up "Indian Life: The Cantonment Magistrate"] by Major-General de Berry, page 120 ''The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine, Volume 8, 1888''. Archive.org. The Cantonment Magistrate was invariably a military officer of one of the Indian Staff Corps.
:[https://archive.org/stream/illustratednava05unkngoog#page/n421/mode/2up "Indian Life: The Civil Service"] by Major-General de Berry, page 391 of the same publication.
*[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.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/461199 ''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. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version]mirror from Digital Library of India.*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/276594 ''India as I knew it, 1885–1925''] by Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer 1925 is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India. [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.
*[https://archive.org/details/ignorantinindia00vernrich ''An Ignorant in India''] by R E Venede 1911 Archive.org The author was visiting a friend who was a Collector in an indigo region in Bengal
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/527927 ''Diversions of an Indian Political''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion 1932. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276384 Archive.org version] (different file), 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]].*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209125 ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India''] by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [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.
:[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 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.
*''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528179 Pdf download]. [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://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278879 ''Impressions of an Indian Civil Servant''] by Roderick Donald Macleod 1938 is available as a pdf download on the Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278879 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. .
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written 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, [httpby Philip Woodruff (pseudonym)://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126942 ''The Founders''] (1953), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126942 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127071 ''The Guardians, Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127071 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ; and [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127070 ''The Guardians, Volume lIII''], (1954) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127070 Archive.org version] (1954) by Philip Woodruff (pseudonym) are available as pdf downloads on the , 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.
