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:Listen to the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/philip-mason/ 1978 interview Philip Mason, with transcripts]. He talks of his training for the ICS, his work as a court official and map surveyor, and of his life as an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210179 ''The Jewel In The Lotus''] by Sir Basil John Gould 1957. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection (catalogued 1921). Full title: ''The Jewel in the Lotus: Recollections of an Indian Political''. Gould's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Gould Wikipedia page] advises he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1907, and served as a Political Officer in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet from 1935 to 1945.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiaweleftcharl0000trev/page/n5 ''The India we left: Charles Trevelyan, 1826-65. Humphrey Trevelyan, 1929-47''] by Humphrey Trevelyan 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. Charles Trevelyan was in the Bengal Civil Service, Humphrey Trevelyan was in the Madras Civil Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/youngmanscountry0000smit/page/n7 ''A Young Man's Country : letters of a subdivisional officer of the Indian Civil Service 1936-1937''] by W. H. Saumarez Smith 1977. Archive.org Lending Library. The author was in the Indian Civil Service 1934-1947. The letters were written when he was at Madaripur, in the district of [[Faridpur]], in East Bengal (now Bangladesh).
*[http://apnaorg.com/books/english/reminiscences-discreet-indiscreet/book.php?fldr=book ''Reminiscences, Discreet and Indiscreet''] by T. N. Kaul (Triloki Nath), 1982. Website of "Academy of the Punjab in North America". An Indian, he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1937.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1978-peacocks-calling-one-mans-experience-of-india-1939-1947-by-cowley-s-pdf/ ''Peacocks Calling: one man’s experience of India. 1939-1947''] by Bill [William] Cowley, 1978. Published in India 1977? Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/cowley-papers/ Description of the contents of the book] based on papers at the Centre of South Asian Studies. s-asian.cam.ac.uk. Appointed to the ICS 1939 and became a Magistrate in the Punjab with promotions to lst class Magistrate. Became involved with the Boy Scouts and took over administration of Youth Movement and Boy Scouts.
