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*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/frompunjaubpome00dyso/page/n7/mode/2up ''From a Punjaub Pomegranate Grove''] by C C Dyson 1913. Archive.org. The author was the wife of Bob, an Assistant Revenue Collector, and Magistrate, at Hariana, in the "Punjaub irrigation colonies". Republished in 1985 and 1993 under the title ''Fragments from Indian Life''. From the contents, the approximate period covered is 1908-1911. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hariana Hariana] Wikipedia.
* ''Diversions of an Indian Political'' by Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276384 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Experiences of a political officer in Northern India from 1892. He also wrote [https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] 1910, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh, and a further book on [[Iran|Eastern Persia]].
* ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India'' by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Sir John was Governor of United Provinces with many royal friends. Hunting largely between 1907 and 1912, including tiger hunting in the jungles of Tarai, Cooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal. The author joined the Indian Civil Service c 1877 when he was posted to the North-Western Provinces.
