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:[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/myexperiencesinm00johniala/page/n7 ''My experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills''] by the late Major-General Sir James Johnstone 1896 Archive.org. The account concerns the period 1873 to the operations in 1885-1886, at the time of the [[3rd Burma War]], when he retired with nearly 28 years’ service in India. Mainly he seems to have worked as a Political Agent, or similar.
*[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
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