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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=KmFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals''] by Daniel Johnson 1827 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MwoFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 ''The Old Forest Ranger, or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and On the Plains''] by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5kECAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ‪''The Spear and the Rifle; or Recollections of Sport in India, by an Old Shekarree''] [Henry Astbury Leveson] 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
*[http://www.archive.org/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich ''Wild Men and Wild Beasts Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 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]
*''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://www.archive.org/stream/shikarsketcheswi00browrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports''] by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders, 1887 Archive.org
*''Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America'' by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth03bakegoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume I] [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth00unkngoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume II]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024053773 ''Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India''] by Mrs Alan Gardner (Nora Gardner) 1895 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the [[Forestry|Indian Forest Service]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/soneporereminisc00abborich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Sonepore reminiscences. Years 1840-96''] by Harry E Abbott 1896. Archive.org Horse racing at Sonepore (a native state, South-West Frontier of Bengal, now Orissa state)
*''A Guide to Training and Horse Management in India, with Hindustanee vocabulary'' by M. Horace Hayes Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/aguidetotrainin00hayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up New Edition much enlarged 1878], [http://www.archive.org/stream/traininghorseman00haye#page/n7/mode/2up 6th edition 1905]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianracingremi00haye#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Racing Reminiscences''] by M. Horace Hayes , illustrated by J.K.Ferguson 1883 Archive.org
*[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/cu31924024053773 ''Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India''] by Mrs Alan Gardner (Nora Gardner) 1895 Archive.org
*[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
*[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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/soneporereminisc00abborich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Sonepore reminiscences. Years 1840-96''] by Harry E Abbott 1896. Archive.org Horse racing at Sonepore (a native state, South-West Frontier of Bengal, now Orissa state)
*''A Guide to Training and Horse Management in India, with Hindustanee vocabulary'' by M. Horace Hayes Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/aguidetotrainin00hayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up New Edition much enlarged 1878], [http://www.archive.org/stream/traininghorseman00haye#page/n7/mode/2up 6th edition 1905]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianracingremi00haye#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Racing Reminiscences''] by M. Horace Hayes , illustrated by J.K.Ferguson 1883 Archive.org
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