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*''History of the Madras Army'' by Lieutenant-Colonel William John Wilson [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/YI2HHUN2PHE6PZICICDLMLREI5RZ6OFY ''Volume1''] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek . Covers the period 1746-1780. [http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar00wilsgoog#page/n4/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] 1882 Covers the period 1780-1799. [http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar01wilsgoog#page/n4/mode/1up ''Volume 3''] 1883. Covers the period 1799-1817. Archive.org. Volumes 4 and 5 are available at the [[British Library]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/presidentialarmi00carnrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Presidential Armies of India''] by Colonel S Rivett-Carnac 1890 Archive.org has chapters on the Madras Army
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5jNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Head Quarters, Choultry Plain, thirteenth July, MDCCXCVI [1796<nowiki>]</nowiki>. General Orders: by the Commander in Chief [Madras Army''<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Google Books. A restructure of the Regiments.
*[https://archive.org/details/stringerlawrence00bidd ''Stringer Lawrence, the Father of the Indian Army''] by Colonel J Biddulph 1901 Archive.org. The subject arrived at Fort St David in January 1748, He had been earlier appointed Major of the Garrison at Fort St George , which had since been taken by the French. By 1752 he was Commander-in Chief of all the Company’s military forces in the East Indies.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoircorrespond00fras ''Memoir and correspondence of General James Stuart Fraser of the Madras Army''] by Colonel Hastings Fraser, 2nd edition 1885. Archive.org. General Fraser was in India 1799 to February 1853, the last fourteen years as Resident at Hyderabad
*''Ten Years in India: or, The Life of a Young Officer'' by Albert Henry Andrew Hervey of the 40th Regiment Madras Infantry (1850), [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mrlFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZnQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oHQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume III] Google Books. A later edition was published in 1988 as ''A soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign, 1833-43''.
*General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1837-1871. His Army career is detailed in the [https://archive.org/stream/RecordssportSou00Hami#page/viii/mode/2up Preface] page ix ''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.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2RRXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Revised Index of all General Orders from 1800 to 1839 inclusive…''] by a Staff Officer ,Madras 1841 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qDRYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP2 ''Revised Standing Orders, Sections II, III, IV, V and XI for the Native Infantry of the Madras Army''] 1866 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras Army: including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the Supreme Court'']. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office 1842 Google Books
