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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=-PdWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA45 ''Lives of Indian Officers: Illustrative of the History of the Civil and Military Service of India''] Volume 1 by John William Kaye (1867) gives, from p45, the background to the Civil Service. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-PdWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR15 Contents Volume 1] Google Books [http://www.archive.org/stream/livesofindianoff02kayeiala#page/n5/mode/2up Contents Volume 2] Archive.org
*''Thirty-eight years in India : from Juganath to the Himalaya Mountains'' by William Tayler, late Commissioner of Patna. 1881 Archive.org. [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924021024835 Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/details/thirtyeightyear03taylgoog Volume 2]. The author commenced work in the Bengal Civil Service in 1829.
:[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/03/our-hero-is-a-sportsman-british-domestic-interiors-in-19th-century-india.html "‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India"] British Library blog “Untold Lives” 05 March 2014. Includes three images by William Tayler from his 1842 publication ''Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians'', one of which "The Young Lady's Toilet" is also available from [http://blogs.bl.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef01b8d2ac7fe2970c-pi another BL blog]
:[https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?contributors=Tayler%2C%20William%2C%201808-1892 18 watercolours by William Tayler] Brown University Library on World Digital Library.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6wbmMHtf-FwC&pg=PP11 ‪''Memorials of Service in India‬: ‪from the correspondence of the late Major Samuel Charters Macpherson‬ Political Agent at Gwalior during the Mutiny, and formerly employed in the suppression of human sacrifices in Orissa''].1865 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/memorialsofservi00macprich Archive.org] (has better maps) He initially joined the Madras Army in 1827. In 1831 he was appointed assistant surveyor-general and was engaged in both military and survey work. In 1841 he was appointed as Assistant to the Agent at Ganjam, Political Agent at Bhopal in 1853, and Political Agent at Gwalior in 1854.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reynelltaylorcbc00gamb#page/n9/mode/2up ''Reynell Taylor, C.B., C.S.I. a biography''] by E. Gambier Parry 1888 Archive.org. The subject joined the Bengal Army in 1840 , serving as a Cavalry Officer until c 1846. He subsequently served as Commissioner in various areas in the North West until his retirement in 1877.
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