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*[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.
*''Notes from a Diary: Kept chiefly in Southern India, 1881-1886'' by the Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff 1899. [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary00duffgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/notesfromadiary13duffgoog Volume II] Archive.org. The author was Governor of Madras.
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00drurrich ''Reminiscences of Life and Sport in Southern India''] by Colonel Heber Drury, late Madras Staff Corps and Assistant Resident in Travancore and Cochin 1890 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/roughingitinsout00handrich ''Roughing it in Southern India''] by Mrs M A Handley 1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a [[Forestry|Forest Officer]].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/461199 ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.''] by W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. The author was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version].
*''The Engineering Works Of The Kistna Delta: A Descriptive and Historical Account'' by George Turner Walch, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Madras (Retired). 1899. Compiled for the Madras Government. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt Volume I] with [https://archive.org/stream/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt/The_engineering_works_of_the_Kistna_delt#page/n19/mode/2up Map of the Kistna River Basin], now known as the Krishna River. [https://archive.org/details/TheEngineeringWorksOfTheKistnaDelt1 Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra03holluoft ''The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States''] by Edgar Thurston 1913 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India''.
*[https://archive.org/details/southernindia00pennuoft ''Southern India''] Painted by Lady Lawler, Described by F E Penny 1914 Archive.org
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100500603 ''Southern India, its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources''], comp. by Somerset Playne, assisted by J. W. Bond, ed. by Arnold Wright. 1914 Hathi Trust Digital Library, restricted to those in some areas such as North America. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8WNEcgMr11kC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] including Contents. Google Books
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/281893 ''Routes In Maddras District'' 1922] Title as catalogued. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281893 Archive.org version]. Publications about ''Routes'' were generally published by the Quartermaster General's Department.
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