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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282843 ''Some Passages In The Life Of An Adventurer In The Punjab''] Printed at Delhi 1842. Easier to read, but missing at least 2 pages, compared to [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.14891/page/n3 version 2] Archive.org.
*''Oakfield or Fellowship In the East'' by W D Arnold [William Delafield], Lieut. 58th Regiment, BNI [Bengal Native infantry]. 2nd edition 1854 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.200691 Volume I] Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KnQQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume II] Google Books. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakfield;_or,_Fellowship_in_the_East ''Oakfield or Fellowship In the East''] Wikipedia, which states "The novel is an indictment of the moral standards of the British regiments in India." Originally published (1853) using the pseudonym Punjabee. Volume II is set in the period of the [[2nd Sikh War]].
*''Chronicles of Dustypore; a Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society'' [by H S Cunningham [Henry Stewart], Sir] 1875. [https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofdust01cunn/page/n7 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofdust02cunn/page/n8 Volume II] Archive.org [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._S._Cunningham H. S. Cunningham] Wikipedia. Born 1832, he went to India in 1866 as Government Advocate and Legal Advisor to the Punjab, based at Lahore. He became Advocate-General of Madras Presidency 1872 and judge of the Calcutta High Court1877-1887. :[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.169320/page/n89 Review of ''Chronicles of Dustypore''] page 73 ''Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, K.C.I.E.'' by Margaret M. Verney 1923 Archive.org.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000045A5C ''The Dead Man's Gift: a Tea-planter's Romance''] by Herbert Compton (London) 1890. British Library Digital Collection. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Eastwick_Compton Herbert Eastwick Compton] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/borderofbladesan00foraiala ''The Border of Blades : an Anglo-Indian Romance''] by Captain Bedford Foran 1916 Archive.org. Author is cataloged as William Robert Foran. Set in Peshawar and the North West Frontier. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Robert_Foran W. Robert Foran] Wikipedia. [https://aussiehunter.org/hunting/hunting-books/great-white-hunters/w-r-foran/ W R Foran] (aussiehunter.org) indicates he was in India with the British Army for a short time in the early 1900s.
