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**''Alphabetical List of the Honourable East India Company’s Bombay Civil Servants, from 1798, to 1839 ...'' Edward Dodwell and James Samuel Miles 1839
**A similar listing for Bengal is available online , together with a later listing for Madras and Bombay, refer below.
*[httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2abrowse/records.aspx?cat=059r/h/6b309d8d-ab30-iorv_1&cid=140d1-6#1b9d6-6 79a8464ffb9e India Office Serials '''IOR/V/6'''] 1768-1948 This series comprises serials published or printed by, or on behalf of, the East India Company and the India Office. The serials include ''Lists of the Company's Servants'' 1768-1799, the ''East India Register and Directory'' (later ''India List'') 1803-1895, the ''India Office List'' 1886-1947 and the ''India Office Establishment'' 1884-1948. Some are available online, refer '''[[Directories online]]''', including the section '''[[Directories online#India List and India Office List|India List and India Office List]]'''. These Lists usually provide short records of service, providing the date of appointment, promotions and qualifications for individuals. *[httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2adetails/records.aspx?cat=059r/56e0e03f-6565-iorv_5&cid=142aa-1#1ba09-1 b9bb7b324eaf Histories of Services '''IOR/V/12'''] 1875-1955. This series includes records of service for overseas Indian Civil Service personnel and for other civil servants of gazetted rank. For editions available online also see the previously mentioned [[Directories online#India List and India Office List|India List and India Office List]].*[httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2abrowse/records.aspx?cat=059r/h/052f9695-4f4f-iorv_5&cid=149b0-2#1b65e-2 2d52a6469cba Civil Lists '''IOR/V/13'''] 1840-1958. This series includes all the issues of civil lists of the Government of India and of the provincial governments. Coverage is usually restricted to gazetted officers in the main series of lists, but there are a few supplementary lists of subordinate services and also some fuller departmental establishment lists which include non-gazetted appointments, in particular the Telegraph, Indo-European Telegraph, Public Works and Railways departments. For editions available online also see the previously mentioned [[Directories online#India List and India Office List|India List and India Office List]].
*Occasionally a person may have been thought to be part of the Indian Civil Service, including the Indian Political Service, but was in fact "attached", belonging still to the Army, in which case the ''Indian Army List''s may provide information. For editions online, see [[Directories online#Army Lists|Directories online - Army Lists]] including the separate page [[Indian Army List online]].
*Another source of information in the India Office Records at the British Library include [httphttps://wwwdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2abrowse/records.aspx?cat=059r/h/be7a2de3-iorv_4ffce-2&cid=14b2c-1#1b9c9-1 9d0f425fae92 Government Gazettes '''IOR/V/11'''] 1831-1947.
:The Government Gazettes were the official newspapers of the Government of India and its provincial governments. The series held are: ''Gazettes of India'' 1865-1947, ''Calcutta'' 1832-1947, ''Assam'' 1874-1947, ''Bihar and Orissa'' 1912-1947, ''United Provinces'', 1850-1947, ''Fort St George'' 1832-1947, ''Bombay 1831-1947'', ''Punjab'' 1872-1947, ''North-West Frontier Province'' 1932-1947, ''Central Provinces'' 1875-1947, ''Coorg 1885-1947'', ''Sind'' 1869-1947, ''Burma'' 1875-1947. Summaries of the contents of each series are to be found in the handlists in the Reading Room of the British Library.
:Some issues of the ''Gazette of India'' and the ''Calcutta Gazette'' are available online, refer [[Newspapers and journals online]].
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