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*''The East India Vade-Mecum or Complete Guide To Gentlemen Intended for The Civil, Military or Naval Service of The Hon. East India Company'' by Captain Thomas Williamson 1810 Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=c_tAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 1]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hftAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ri0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The General East India Guide And Vade Mecum: For The Public Functionary, Government Officer, Private Agent, Trader Or Foreign Sojourner, In British India, And The Adjacent Parts Of Asia Immediately Connected With The Honourable The East India Company . Being a Digest of the Work of the late Capt. Williamson, with many Improvements and Additions''] by John Borthwick Gilchrist 1825 Google Books
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035D96#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=9 ''The East India Voyager, or ten minutes advice to the outward bound''] by Emma Roberts 1839 British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofindiag00stoc ''The hand-book of India, a guide to the stranger and the traveller, and a companion to the resident''] by J.H. Stocqueler 1844 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z-wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Real Life in India, embracing a view of the requirements of individuals appointed to any branch of the Indian Public Service; The Methods of Proceeding to India; and the course of Life in Different Parts of the Country''] by An Old Resident 1847 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z-wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents].
*[https://archive.org/stream/b24757986#page/600/mode/2up/ “Wintering in India”] page 600 ''Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians'' by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball, Fifth edition 1904 Archive.org. Also contains ''Volume II, North Africa and Mediterranean Islands'' from p 331.
*Books in following sections may include initial chapters which could be classified as '"Guides".
==The Passage to India ==
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*[https://archive.org/details/chutneypapersso00macdgoog ''Chutney Papers: Society, Shikar, and Sport in India''] by 'C.M., a Bombay-Walla' 1884. Archive.org. Humorous sketches of life on a 'station'. The author is catalogued as Cameron Joseph F.S . MacDowall, who was a doctor, born 1832, (listed on page 467, ''Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 - Volume 2'' by Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford).
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000357DE ''Jottings and Recollections of a Bengal “Qui hye!”''] by Louis Emanuel [1886] British Library Digital Collection. Includes chapters about servants.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.753/mode/1up ''Sketches of Indian Life''] drawn by W Lloyd 1890. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Drawings.
*[https://archive.org/details/bygonedaysinindi00dewa ''Bygone days in India''] by Douglas Dewar 1922. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.03119/mode/2up ''Indian Dust Devils''] by Major H Hobbs 1937 Archive.org. Reminiscences of a time 40 or 50 years earlier, perhaps c 1880s-90s. Also see next category for another book by Hobbs.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150430035337/http://racingworldindia.com/horseracing/content/view/1071/114/ Pigsticking] by Major S Nargolkar (Retd) racingworldindia.com, now an archived webpage.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151107135743/http://www.pigsticking.com/history.htm Photographs: Pigsticking in India] pigsticking.com, now archived. The Kadir Cup was an individual pigsticking competition organised by the Meerut Tent Club. [https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1964-08-3-1 Photograph of the Kadir Cup awarded in 1911] National Army Museum. [https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1956-12-22-1 The Kadir Cup, 1921] Print after Lionel Edwards, 1921. National Army Museum Accession Number NAM. 1956-12-22-1.[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''
:The [[British Library]] holds the publication ''Hoghunter's annual'', volumes 1(1928)-12(1939), (classified as a Journal) published by The Times Of India Press, Bombay UIN: BLL01008628498 . Also catalogued elsewhere as ''The Hoghunters' Annual'', for which years 1928 (possibly 1928-1930 ) is/are available on the Hathi Trust Digital Library for those with University as [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Hoghunters_Annual.html?id=_EggAQAAMAAJ Google Books snippet view], perhaps some may have full access.
*Videos. [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-mutra-cup-meeting-aka-the-muttra-cup-meeting/query/cup The Muttra Cup Meeting: India’s Largest Pig-Sticking Contest 1934] 1 min 33sec preview British Pathe. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120915081309/http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/3745 The Kadir Cup 1934] Colonial Film, (archived version) silent footage 9:50min, original perhaps now in the collection of [http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=8786 Bristol Museums Archives], although seemingly not in the catalogue. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCi1mdGKCt4 La Kadir Cup] 1938 Commentary in Italian. YouTube
*[http://www.shakariconnection.com/tiger-hunting-books.html Bibliography of Tiger Hunting Books] shakariconnection.com
