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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=gAZCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Oriental Field Sports Volume 1''] by Captain Thomas Williamson 1807 With coloured illustrations. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1BlcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Oriental Field Sports Volume 2''] with illustrations 1808 Google Books.
**[https://archive.org/details/illustrationsofi00willrich ''Illustrations of Indian Field Sports selected and reproduced from the coloured engravings first published in 1807 after designs by Captain Thomas Williamson of the Bengal Army''] 1892 Archive.org (Contains 10 plates)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=KmFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals''] by Daniel Johnson 1827 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=MwoFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 ''The Old Forest Ranger, or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and On the Plains''] by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066594338?urlappend=%3Bseq=17 ''Tiger-shooting in India; being an account of hunting experiences on foot in Rajpootana, during the hot seasons, from 1850 to 1854''] by William Rice, Lieutenant 25th Regiment Bombay N I 1857 Hathi Trust Digital Library
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924005747377 ''"Indian Game", (from Quail to Tiger)''] by William Rice 1884 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5kECAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Spear and the Rifle; or Recollections of Sport in India, by an Old Shekarree''] [Henry Astbury Leveson] 1860 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iwkFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Wild Sports of India; with remarks on the breeding and rearing of horses, and the formation of light irregular cavalry''] by Captain Henry Shakespear, Commandant Nagpore Irregular Force. 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=V2AoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The rifle in Cashmere : a narrative of shooting expeditions in Ladak, Cashmere, Punjaub, etc., with advice on travelling, shooting, and stalking : to which are added notes on army reform and Indian politics''] by Arthur Brinckman, late of HM’s 94th Regt. 1862 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/sirvictorbrookes00broorich ''Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist: a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals''] edited by Oscar Leslie Stephen 1894. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on India, including tigers, 1862-63 when Brooke was aged 19, from [https://archive.org/stream/sirvictorbrookes00broorich#page/58/mode/2up page 59]
*[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.
*''Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West'' by Alexander Kinloch, [[Rifle Brigade]] and later [[60th Regiment of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps]]. ''Part I'' 1869, ''Part II'' 1876. Later editions have titles…''in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India'' (1885) and … ''in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India'' (1892). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aUcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Part I''] 1869 Google Books; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnb61r?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Part II''] 1876 Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshootin00kinl Revised edition 1885] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshooti02kinlgoog 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1892] Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich ''Wild Men and Wild Beasts: Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/thirteenyearsamo029922mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation: With an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants''] by GP Sanderson, Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore 6th edition 1907 Archive.org (first published 1878). The author was the model for the Rudyard Kipling character 'Petersen Sahib' in the story [http://archive.org/stream/junglebookkipl#page/216/mode/2up ''Toomai of the Elephants''], [http://www.kiplingjournal.com/textfiles/KJ180.txt Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib'] by Sir Theodore Tasker ''The Kipling Journal December 1971'' [http://www.kipling.org.uk/index.htm Kipling Society]
*''Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ...'' by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879 [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb01pollgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sportinbritishb00pollgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*''India and Tiger-Hunting'' by Colonel Julius Barras Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu02barrgoog Volume I] 1883; [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu01barrgoog Series II] 1885
:''The New Shikari at our Indian Stations'' by Julius Barras 1885 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour00barrgoog#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour01barrgoog#page/n4/mode/2up Volume 2]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lettersonsporti00simsgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal''] by Frank B. Simson, Bengal Civil Service (retired) 1886 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924016411831 ''Sport in Bengal and How, When, and Where to Seek It''] by Edward B Baker late Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bengal. 1887 Archive.org. Hunting.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/shikarsketcheswi00browrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports''] by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders, 1887 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/highlandsindia00newagoog ''The Highlands of India Volume II, being a Chronicle of Field Sports and Travel in India''] by Major General D J F Newall R A (Bengal Retired) 1887 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tigershootingind00fiferich ''Tiger-shooting in the Doon and Ulwar: with Life in India''] by Lt.-Colonel J C Fife-Cookson 1887 Archive.org
*[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
*''Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America'' by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth03bakegoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume I] [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth00unkngoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume II]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878.
*[https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsofshi00brad ''Thirty Years of Shikar''] by Sir Edward Braddon 1895 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024053773 ''Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India''] by Mrs Alan Gardner (Nora Gardner) 1895 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sportinhighlands00darrrich ''Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of an eight months' trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a lady's experiences in the latter country; together with hints for the guidance of sportsmen ...''] by Henry Zouch Darrah, Indian Civil Service 1898 Archive.org
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/524139 ''The Indian Field Shikar Book''] by W. S. Burke, Editor of ''The Indian Field''. First published prior to 1904, the date of the 2nd edition. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] by Major R L Kennion 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh until 1907. He also wrote a book on sport in [[Iran|East Persia]].
*[http://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the [[Forestry|Indian Forest Service]]
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/207488 ''A Guide To Tiger Shooting''] 1920. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiersshikartr00mainiala ''A Soldier's Shikar Trips''] by Brigadier General H G Mainwaring late South Wales Borderers (14th Regiment) 1920 [https://archive.org/stream/soldiersshikartr00mainiala#page/152/mode/2up Chapter V onwards] is about India, from 1899. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b25288?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet''] by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233394 Pdf download, Digital Library of India]
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/211390 ''Shikar Memories''] by Henry Stotesbury Wood. 1934. Full title: ''Shikar Memories. A record of sport and observation in India and Burma''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
*[https://archive.org/details/tigerhunters029908mbp ''The Tiger Hunters''] by Brigadier-General R G Burton 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/callofthetiger029909mbp ''Call Of The Tiger''] by Colonel A N W Powell 1957 Archive.org . The author was a contemporary of Jim Corbett, the latter was born 1875.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/242993 ''Have You Shot An Indian Tiger?''] by R D Mackay c 1968 Pdf download, Digital Library of India
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pigstickingorhog00baderich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Pigsticking or, Hoghunting: a complete account for sportsmen, and others''] by Captain R. S. S. Baden-Powell [of Scouting fame] Illustrated by the author. 1889 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesoft00raourich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of twenty years' pigsticking in Bengal''] by Raoul 1893 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/modernpigstickin00wardrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Modern pig-sticking''] by A. E. Wardrop, Royal Horse Artillery, with chapters by J. Vaughan, F. W. Caton Jones, M. M. Crawford, and H. E. Medlicott 1914 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wVHRpOaH8C4C&pg=PT45 The Kadir <nowiki>[</nowiki>Cup<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Sketches from ''My Sketch Book in the Shiny'' by Snaffles (Charlie Johnson Payne) 1930 Google Books
→Historical Books Online: Transferred to Hunting accounts online
*[http://www.shakariconnection.com/tiger-hunting-books.html Bibliography of Tiger Hunting Books] shakariconnection.com
===Historical Books Online===
*See '''[[Hunting accounts online]]''' for books about hunting, usually called Sport or Shikar, including tiger hunting and pigsticking.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/156/mode/2up ''Glimpses of Old Bombay''] by James Douglas, JP has a section on Bombay Clubs and can be found at Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/soneporereminisc00abborich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Sonepore reminiscences. Years 1840-96''] by Harry E Abbott 1896. Archive.org Horse racing at Sonepore (a native state, South-West Frontier of Bengal, now Orissa state)
*''A Guide to Training and Horse Management in India, with Hindustanee vocabulary'' by M. Horace Hayes Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/aguidetotrainin00hayegoog#page/n6/mode/2up New Edition much enlarged 1878], [http://www.archive.org/stream/traininghorseman00haye#page/n7/mode/2up 6th edition 1905]
