Medal Rolls

The medals article has details of medals awarded for various military campaigns. Most of the nominal medal rolls for these awards are at the British Library. Many of the rolls are reprinted in books on the open access shelves. Details of the India Office Records' reference numbers can be found at Your Archives - Medal Rolls in the India Office Library.
Naval And Military Press has a book called India General Service Medal 1895 Casualty Roll compiled by Anthony Farrington. Within the link there is a pdf file of the first 15 pages of the book, including some names.

FIBIS resources

Medal roll transcriptions:

• China Campaign, 1842 (Madras Artillery & Staff only) - 495 recipients of the medal for the 1st China War
• Indian Mutiny Medal Roll (British Forces) 1857-1859 Over 50,000 names of British Army soldiers awarded medals after the Indian Mutiny, transcribed by Kevin Asplin.