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*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com
*Obituary of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100924063518/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1448007/Charles-Chenevix-Trench.html Charles Chenevix Trench], c 1914 -2003 (telegraph.co.uk, archive.org link) He served as an Indian Army officer in the 1930s, commissioned into [[Hodson's Horse]], and winning an MC during the Second World War . In 1946 he retired from the Army to follow his father into the Indian Political Service for the 18 months until Partition. His 19 books included three classic accounts of British India: ''The Indian Army and the King's Enemies, 1900-1947''; ''The Frontier Scouts''; and ''The Viceroy's Agent'', all published in the 1980s and available at the [[British Library]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170924045343/http://www.defencejournal.com/2001/feb/ethnicity.htm "Ethnicity, Religion, Military Performance and Political Reliability - British Recruitment Policy and The Indian Army - 1757-1947"] by Maj (Retd) Agha Humayun Amin ''Defence Journal'' [Pakistan] February 2001, now an archived webpage. Major Agha Humayun Amin is the author of ''Pakistan Army till 1965''.<ref>
[http://www.lulu.com/shop/agha-humayun-amin/pakistan-army-till-1965/paperback/product-22207306.html ''Pakistan Army till 1965'' by Agha Humayun Amin] lulu.com. Pakistan Army History from its initial creation by English East India Company in 1757 to 1965.</ref>
*[http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/48674/WP24_Shaheed_Hussain.pdf "'Punjabisation' in the British Indian Army 1857-1947 and the Advent of Military Rule in Pakistan"] by Syed Hussain Shaheed Soherwordi, School of History & Classics, University of Edinburgh. ''Edinburgh Papers In South Asian Studies Number 24 (2010)''.
