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*[http://www.farewellthewinterline.com/index.html ''Farewell the Winterline, Memories of a Boyhood in India''] by Stanley Elwood Brush, born 1925. His parents were American Baptist missionaries. He attended Woodstock School at [[Mussoorie]] in the Himalyan foothills
*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com
*[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html "Peshawar Remembered"] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. "Memories of Murree" also by Walter Reeve. Details of a visit to Murree in 1936 from the author’s father’s memoirs, and the author’s memory of visits in 1948 and 1949. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125548/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-06-11-2005/foo.htm Part 1], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125717/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-13-11-2005/foo.htm Part 2], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306062112/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-20-11-2005/foo.htm Part 3] Scroll down. jang.com.pk 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.
*[http://janetmacleodtrotter.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/a-baby-in-india/ Photograph of “My mother being carried through foothills of Himalayas”] from photographs of Janet MacLeod Trotter [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117025917/http://janetmacleodtrotter.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/mum-being-carried-through-foothills-of-himalayas-copy.jpg Enlarged version] (archived)
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201205A17.html English Howdah Pistols, ca. 1846] A howdah is a very large saddle, which was used on the back of an Indian elephant and these pistols were used in emergencies while hunting from an elephant. Antiques Roadshow Archives from the episode Corpus Christi (#1703) (USA) originally filmed August 4, 2012. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah_pistol Howdah pistol] Wikipedia. [http://www.acant.org.au/Articles/HowdahRifle.html Tiger Tamer: A 12-Bore Howdah Double] from the collection of Tony Orr. acant.org.au
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/hunting-trip-in-coimbatore-india Hunting trip in Coimbatore, India 1920] Photographs taken during Charles Foulkes' big game hunting trip, from "The Serving Soldier" collection, King’s College London
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99jun27/sunday/speaking.htm "A forgotten sport"]
 by Manohar Malgonkar June 27, 1999 ''The Tribune'' Pigsticking.
*Hog Sticking Raj Style! [http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-i.html Part I], [http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-ii.html Part II] with extracts from ''Field Sports in India 1800-1947'' by Major General J.G Elliott
*[http://racingworldindia.com/horseracing/content/view/1071/114/ Pigsticking] by Major S Nargolkar (Retd) racingworldindia.com
*[http://faithfulreaders.com/2013/01/22/pig-sticking/ Pigsticking] by Kihm Winship*[http://www.pigsticking.com/history.htm Photographs: Pigsticking in India] pigsticking.com. [http://s10.photobucket.com/user/plowmans/media/Tweedy-Plowman%20Albums/092005.jpg.html Photograph: Kadir Cup 1914] Photobucket. The Kadir Cup was an individual pigsticking competition organised by the Meerut Tent Club. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/13108733@N00/3218589419/ Photograph: Captain Tuck of the Meerut Tent Club, with his horse, Manifest. 1936 Kadir Cup - The Hog-hunter's Classic] Flickr.com. [http://www.lib.msu.edu/branches/dmc/tribune/detail.jsp?id=973 Photograph: Red Cross and veterinarians' elephants at the Kadir Cup 1938] www.lib.msu. Originally published in the ''Chicago Tribune''*Videos. [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-mutra-cup-meeting-aka-the-muttra-cup-meeting/query/cup Video: The Muttra Cup Meeting: India’s Largest Pig-Sticking Contest 1934] 1 min 33sec preview British Pathe*. [http://www.pigstickingcolonialfilm.org.comuk/node/history3745 The Kadir Cup 1934] Colonial Film (There is no sound).htm Photographs[http: Pigsticking in India] pigsticking//www.youtube.com===Historical books online==/watch?v=JCi1mdGKCt4 La Kadir Cup] 1938 Commentary in Italian. YouTube
===Historical Books Online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/156/mode/2up ''Glimpses of Old Bombay''] by James Douglas, JP has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesoft00raourich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of twenty years' pigsticking in Bengal''] by Raoul 1893 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/modernpigstickin00wardrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Modern pig-sticking''] by A. E. Wardrop, Royal Horse Artillery, with chapters by J. Vaughan, F. W. Caton Jones, M. M. Crawford, and H. E. Medlicott 1914 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wVHRpOaH8C4C&pg=PT45 The Kadir <nowiki>[</nowiki>Cup<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Sketches from ''My Sketch Book in the Shiny'' by Snaffles (Charlie Johnson Payne) 1930 Google Books
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