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''India’s Army'' by Major D. Jackson 1940 contains a "potted history" of every Regiment & Corps (including the auxiliary & princely state forces). With 70 chapters, over 100 B & W photos & illustrations, 14 full Colour plates. Now available online, refer below, but the inclusion of, and/or standard of, photographs and illustrations is unknown.
''Regiments : Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1758-1993 : a critical bibliography of their published histories'' by Roger Perkins 1994, is available at the BL UIN: BLL01009529783. For those with suitable University access, also available on the HathiTrust Digital Library. (A few sample pages.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200227012142/https://www.rookebooks.com/product?prod_id=44049 ''Regiments : Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth''] by Roger Perkins 1994, rookebooks.com.</ref>) An expanded edition, originally published 1989 as ''Regiments of the Empire: A Bibliography of their published histories''. The 1994 publication is also available in a reprint edition as part of a CD-ROM.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/armies-of-the-crownthe-bibliographies-of-their-regimental-histories-great-britian-the-empire-and-the-commonwealth/ Armies of the Crown. The Bibliographies of Their regimental Histories Great Britian, The Empire and the Commonwealth] Naval & Military Press</ref>For books published after 1993, see External links below, for a page from Durbaronline, the website of the Indian Military Historical Society.
A good source of military information is the annual publication of Indian Army Orders '''IOR/L/MIL/17/5/245-299''' 1903-1947, issued by the Adjutant General's Department and Army Headquarters India. Volumes 245-85 (to 1942, and partially 1943) contain annual indexes.
*First page of an article [http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/lawhst34&div=41 ''The Rare Infliction: The Abolition of Flogging in the Indian Army, circa 1835-1920''] by Radhika Singha says it was abolished in 1920. ''Law and History Review'', August 2016, Vol 34, No 3.
*Pay to view British Pathe Film, [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/good-news-from-china/query/good+news+from+china Good News From China 1927], an indication that Indian troops were leaving China in 1927 "owing to marked improvement of situation in Shanghai."
*[http://books.stonebooks.com/subject/1003209/ India: Regimental histories] stonebooks.com (retrieved 23 April 2014)*[http://durbaronline.co.uk/books.htm Books: Beyond Perkins] Updates of Indian Army regimental histories etc relating to India and Pakistan, published after Roger Perkins' 1994 book ''Regiments : Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1758-1993''. Durbaronline, the website of the Indian Military Historical Society
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8635 ''Swords trembling in their scabbards': A study of Indian officers in the Indian Cavalry, 1858 – 1918''] by Michael John Creese 2007 PhD thesis University of Leicester (retrieved 27 April 2014)
*[https://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Indian_Army_1939_47_Intro.pdf "Introduction" from ''The Indian Army 1939-1947: Experience & Development''] edited by Alan Jeffreys and Patrick Rose.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/10603/14220 ''Partition of the Indian armed forces between India and Pakistan''] by Sharmila Singh 1994. PhD Thesis Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Shodhganga - A reservoir of Indian Theses.
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*Also see [[Indian Army#Historical books online|Historical books online]], below.
