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*''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.
*[httphttps://seasiavisionsdigital.library.cornell.edu/bookreadercatalog/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up sea354 ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar''] by Colonel PollockPollok, [FitzWilliam Thomas PollockPollok] Madras Staff Corps 1896 seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu Southeast Asia Visions Cornell University. [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version] . The author arrived in Madras in early 1849, and was posted to a Native Infantry Regiment. In 1853 he was appointed to the Sappers and Miners in Burma.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W5peAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP3 ''Regulations for the Dress of General, Staff and Regimental Officers of the Army of Fort St George''] 1838 Google Books. Cloth trousers were worn from 15th October to 31st January, and white linen trousers for the remainder of the year.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_wnAIAAAAQAAJ ''Routes in the Peninsula of India Comprising the Whole of the Madras Presidency and Portions of the Adjacent Territories of Bengal and Bombay''] by Major F H Scott, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Madras Army 1853 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sketchesofmostpr00anne/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising, a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East : statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different divisions of the army under the Madras presidency : embracing also the annual rate of mortality, & c. of European troops : and practical observations on the effects of calomel on the alimentary canal, and on the diseases most prevalent in India''] by James Annesley 1825 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/b21460152 2nd edition, with corrections and large additions, 1829] Archive.org
