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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iwkFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Wild Sports of India; with remarks on the breeding and rearing of horses, and the formation of light irregular cavalry''] by Captain Henry Shakespear, Commandant Nagpore Irregular Force. 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=V2AoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The rifle in Cashmere : a narrative of shooting expeditions in Ladak, Cashmere, Punjaub, etc., with advice on travelling, shooting, and stalking : to which are added notes on army reform and Indian politics''] by Arthur Brinckman, late of HM’s 94th Regt. 1862 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/sirvictorbrookes00broorich ''Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist: a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals''] edited by Oscar Leslie Stephen 1894. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on India, including tigers, 1862-63 when Brooke was aged 19, from [https://archive.org/stream/sirvictorbrookes00broorich#page/58/mode/2up page 59]
*[https://archive.org/details/RecordssportSou00Hami ''Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870''] by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892. Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
*''Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West'' by Alexander Kinloch, [[Rifle Brigade]] and later [[60th Regiment of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps]]. ''Part I'' 1869, ''Part II'' 1876. Later editions have titles…''in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India'' (1885) and … ''in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India'' (1892). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aUcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Part I''] 1869 Google Books; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnb61r?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Part II''] 1876 Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshootin00kinl Revised edition 1885] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshooti02kinlgoog 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1892] Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/thirteenyearsamo029922mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation: With an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants''] by GP Sanderson, Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore 6th edition 1907 Archive.org (first published 1878). The author was the model for the Rudyard Kipling character 'Petersen Sahib' in the story [http://archive.org/stream/junglebookkipl#page/216/mode/2up ''Toomai of the Elephants''], [http://www.kiplingjournal.com/textfiles/KJ180.txt Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib'] by Sir Theodore Tasker ''The Kipling Journal December 1971'' [http://www.kipling.org.uk/index.htm Kipling Society]
*''Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ...'' by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879 [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb01pollgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb00pollgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*''India and Tiger-Hunting'' by Colonel Julius Barras Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu02barrgoog Volume I] 1883; [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu01barrgoog Series II] 1885:''The New Shikari at our Indian Stations'' by Julius Barras 1885 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour00barrgoog#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour01barrgoog#page/n4/mode/2up Volume 2]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lettersonsporti00simsgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal''] by Frank B. Simson, Bengal Civil Service (retired) 1886 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924016411831 ''Sport in Bengal and How, When, and Where to Seek It''] by Edward B Baker late Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bengal. 1887 Archive.org. Hunting.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/207488 ''A Guide To Tiger Shooting''] 1920. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tigerhunters029908mbp ''The Tiger Hunters''] by Brigadier-General R G Burton 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/callofthetiger029909mbp ''Call Of The Tiger''] by Colonel A N W Powell 1957 Archive.org . The author was a contemporary of Jim Corbett, the latter was born 1875.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/242993 ''Have You Shot An Indian Tiger?''] by R D Mackay c 1968 Pdf download, Digital Library of India
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pigstickingorhog00baderich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Pigsticking or, Hoghunting: a complete account for sportsmen, and others''] by Captain R. S. S. Baden-Powell [of Scouting fame] Illustrated by the author. 1889 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesoft00raourich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of twenty years' pigsticking in Bengal''] by Raoul 1893 Archive.org
