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India India, Including campaigns on the North-West Frontier, Afghanistan and Burma, the Indian Mutiny and Anglo-Indian colonial life   105 Books
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Army Regulations, India, Volume I. Pay & Allowances & Non-Effective Pay. (This book is corrected up to 1st April 1915.) Govt. of India, Finance Dept. 1915. ix+317pp). Calcutta: Office of the Supt. of Govt. Printing, India. 1918  #68543
[HLMainPic] 1918 reprint of 1915 edition. Detailed statements of pay & allowances for various arms of both Indian Army & British Army serving in India. Orig. dec. printed wraps., some staining, sound, VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £100
General Rules for the Guidance of the Establishment of the Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Kirkee. 1883. 1st Ed., [ii]+30pp. Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla. 1883  #66906
[HLMainPic] Listing the various Departments, rules for Storekeepers, Gatekeepers, Rules to be observed in case of Fire, &c. Contemp. ownership inscrip. of T.R.A.G. Montgomery, Lieut., Bombay Staff Corps. Note: Thomas Roger Arundel Gayer Montgomery was born 1857, commissioned 1878 Cheshire Regt., transferred to IA 1880, Capt. 1889 Commissariat Dept., retired as Major, 1902. Contemp. blue straight grain morocco, VG. Se illustration on our website.   £50
Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India. 2nd Ed., viii+194pp., 1 of 3 fldg. maps. Delhi: Govt. Central Press. 1923  #66876
[HLMainPic] Official account (including precis of operations 1860-1918) with valuable orders of battle &c. This cheaper edition in printed boards was issued without all but three of the illus., panoramas & maps of the 1st Ed., however this copy retains only one of the three fldg. maps (the general map of Waziristan), hence offered as an inexpensive text, VG ex-IWM with withdrawn stamp. 1900 copies printed & still scarce. See illustration on our website.   £65
The India List & India Office List 1897. 581pp. + prelims., adverts &c., fldg. map. Printed by Harrison & Sons. 1897  #66699
[HLMainPic] Official Listings of the Police, Forestry, Marine Dept., Punjab Commission, Public Works, Ecclesiastical, Judiciary &c., &c., also services of officers & the official regulations for the various departments. Modern red cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £65
Army Regulations India. Vol. VII: Dress. Government of India, Military Dept., 1913 [Reprinted December 1919.] [x]+96pp. (+ blank interleaves) Calcutta: Supt. of Govt. Printing. 1919  #67930
[HLMainPic] Dress Regs. for all branches of the IA inc. the Staff, Bodyguards, ADCs &c., Cavalry & Lancers, Corps of Guides, Mountain Artillery, S&M, Infantry (distinguishing those regiments dressed in Scarlet, Green or Drab), PFF, IMS & other corps. Appendices in this edition include: Badges & Devices; Care & preservation of Uniform; Buttons & Lace; Revolver; Swords & Scabbards; Belts & Sword, Knot; Shoulder chains for officers of Cavalry & Royal Horse Artillery, &c. Orig. official red cloth binding, gilt to front & sp., trace of old labels removed from sp., o/w VG ex-RUSI. Rare. See illustration on our website.   £125
The Imperial Guide to India, Including Kashmir, Burma & Ceylon. 1st Ed., xi+244pp. (+ advert section at end), 4 col. plates of native types, 7 col. plates of fauna, num. b/w photos. on 23 plates, fldng. map in end-pocket, 13 maps/diagrams bound in. John Murray. 1904  #68003
[HLMainPic] Concise but comprehensive & well illustrated guide to locations & history of India. Much of interest. Orig. blue & red cloth, gilt, somewhat worn, generally VG. See illustrations on our website.   £30
Supplement to the Indian Army List: January 1939. 1st Ed., 25+385pp. Manager of Publications, Delhi. 1939  #68009
[HLMainPic] Includes War Services of British & Indian Officers of the Indian Army; also Retired Pay lists, Staff College graduates, holders of IOM, MC, OBI &c. Very rare original edition, contemp. qtr. maroon cloth, marbled paper covd. boards, VG. See illustration on our website.   £165
The India List, Civil & Military, January 1887. Issued by Permission of the Secretary of State for India in Council. xcv+636pp. W.H. Allen & Co. Contemp.  #68059
[HLMainPic] Expanded format. Forerunner to the Indian Army List, these contains civil & military officers of all arms, including IA, British Army regiments in India & their date of arrival, location &c., surgeons, ecclesiastical department and invalid establishments, retired lists &c. for the three Presidencies. Also various listings, holders of awards such as OBI & IOM. They were issued twice annually & are fully indexed. Later maroon cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
Government of India, Military Department correspondence, 1897. Approx. 300pp., foolscap. Govt. Central Press, Simla. 1897  #68061
[HLMainPic] A volume of printed copies (mostly around 100-130 printed) relating to administrative matters in the Indian Army, largely relating to accounts & pay, officers' claims for allowances (some granted, many not), purchase or requisition of equipment &c. Chiefly of value in demonstrating the immense burden of official 'red tape' that kept large numbers of staff officers gainfully employed. Take, for instance, the dispute over payment for a typewriter obtained by the Mathematical Instrument Department: "The Military Accounts Department have refused to accept the debit raised by the Mathematical Instrument Department against the Military estimates on this account, on the ground that the transaction is not covered by the sanction of Government as laid down in the resolution of the Government of India in the Finance Department, No. 185, dated 10th January 1883, as modified by the orders in Finance Department Resolution No. 2586, dated 23rd May 1889, and the correspondence is now submitted for the orders of Government." In other words: the typewriter should not have been obtained without prior sanction, but, as the typewriter had already been obtained the Government of India sanctioned - "as a special case" - the cost being met from the contingent grant of the QMG's Department. Spellbinding stuff. Modern three-qtr. Indian calf, a little wormed, generally VG. See illustration on our website.   £60
Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. (Second Edition). Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India. 2nd Ed., viii+194pp., 31 plates (many fldg.), 8 fldg. panoramas, 4 fldg. maps in text, 3 fldg. maps in end-pocket. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing. 1923  #66211
[HLMainPic] The second & very much scarcer edition of this official account, which "cancels the previous (1921) edition, copies of which should be destroyed." As background the work includes operations 1860-1920, with considerable detail on the little-known 1917 campaign, with valuable orders of battle &c. The edition here offered is presumably amended &/or corrected, as its supersedes the original edition. It should not be confused with the cheaper edition issued without most of the maps & plans. Modern blue cloth, gilt title to sp., complete with all maps & plans (one additional to the 1st Edition) including 3 in endpocket. See illustration on our website.   £250

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