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* ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.'' by W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. He was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''India as I knew it, 1885–1925'' by Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer 1925 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276594 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Additional files are also available. In 1885 he was posted to Shahpur in the Punjab and retired as lieutenant-governor of the Punjab in 1919. His actions during the unrest of 1919 were controversial.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.462477/mode/2up ''The Company Of Cain''] by Al. Carthill (pseudonym) 1922. Archive.org. "An account of certain murder cases". “The facts themselves will be true, although the details may be fictitious or altered”. The author's full name was Bennet Christian Huntingdon Calcraft-Kennedy (1871–1935), sometimes seen as B C Kennedy, who went to India in 1891 and worked as a Collector and Judge in Bombay Presidency, retiring in 1926.<ref>[https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-1/ Kennedy papers] s-asian.cam.ac.uk; [https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/kennedy-papers-box-2/ s-asian.cam.ac.uk link 2]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OZI1aojDb1QC&pg=PA263 Page 263] ''Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930'' by Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.4830/page/n3/mode/2up ''Madampur''] by Al. Carthill (pseudonym, see item above) 1931. Archive.org. Some editions may have had the additional title ''Experiences of a District Officer in India''. Not a real place name, but the author’s "first independent charge" and refers to a time "about a generation ago", possibly c 1911.
*[https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/120/mode/2up ''And that reminds me
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India''] Part III India (page 123)
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915 Archive.org. The author, probably born c late 1850s commenced with the Civil Service in India in 1892, having previously been with the Police in [[Burma]]. He was appointed as Deputy Commissioner at [[Chanda]], the most southerly District of Central Provinces, part of the Nagpur Division [https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/154/mode/2up page 154] He retired on medical grounds in 1906.
*[https://archive.org/details/ignorantinindia00vernrich ''An Ignorant in India''] by R E Venede 1911 Archive.org The author was visiting his brother<ref>[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n14/mode/1up Page ix] ''Letters to his Wife'' by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org</ref> who was a Collector in an indigo region in Bengal.
