NOTE: I have referred to some of these books in the text and they have all provided helpful background information.
Harry Abbot, Reminiscences of Sonepore, Star Press, Calcutta, 1896.
Salim Ali, The Book of Indian Birds, Bombay Natural Society, Bombay, 1979.
George Franklin Atkinson, Curry and Rice: The Ingredients of Social Life at ‘Our Station’ in India, Day and Day, London.
R. D. Banerji, History of Orissa, vols 1 & 2, Calcutta, 1931.
A. L. Basham, The Wonder that was India, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1954.
Hilaire Belloc, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, Duckworth, London, 1938.
J. Moray Brown, Shikar Sketches with Notes on Indian Field Sports, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1887.
Richard Carrington, Elephants, Chatto & Windus, London, 1958.
Jane Dunbar (ed.), Tigers, Durbars and Kings: Fanny Eden’s Indian Journals 1837–1838, John Murray, London, 1988.
Gerald Durrell, Rosie is my Relative, William Collins, London, 1968.
Emily Eden, Up the Country: Letters from India, Curzon Press, London, 1978.
Franklin Edgerton (tr.), The Elephant-Lore of the Hindus: The Elephant Sport (Matanga-Lila) of Nilakantha, Yale University Press, 1931.
Abu ’L-Fazl, Ain-I-Akbari, translated by H. Blochmann, Calcutta-Asiatic Society of Bengal, Bengal, 1927.
Robert Fermor-Hesketh, Architecture of the British Empire, The Vendome Press, New York, 1986.
Bamber Gascoigne, The Great Moghuls, Jonathan Cape, London, 1971.
C. F. Holder, Ivory King, Samson, Low, Marston Searle & Rivington, London, 1886.
Samuel Israel and Bikram Grewal (eds), Insight Guides: India, Harrap, London, 1985.
Ramchandra Jain (ed.), McCrindle’s Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian, Today & Tomorrow’s, New Delhi, 1972.
Anne Morrow, Highness: The Maharajahs of India, Grafton Books, London, 1986.
Cynthia Moss, Elephant Memoirs: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family, Elm Tree Books, London, 1988.
Naveen Patnaik, A Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life 1590–1947, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1985.
An Old Planter, Reminiscences of Behar by an old Planter, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta, 1887.
Louis Rousselet, India and Its Native Princes: Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal, revised and edited by Lieutenant-Colonel Buckle, Scribner Armstrong, New York, 1876.
G. P. Sanderson, Pack Gear for Elephants, Calcutta, 1887.
G. P. Sanderson, Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India, W. H. Allen, London, 1890.
Ivan T. Sanderson, The Dynasty of Abu, Cassell, London, 1963.
E. O. Shebbeare, Soondar Mooni, Victor Gollancz, London, 1958.
P. D. Stracey, Elephant Gold, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1963.
Sir J. Emmerson Tennant, Bt., The Wild Elephant, Longmans Green, London, 1867.
Edward Topsell, The History of Foure-Footed Beastes, describing the True and Lively Figure of Every Beast … Collected out of all the Volumes of C. Gesner and all other Writers of the Present Day, W. Jaggard, London, 1607.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, arranged and translated by Edward MacCurdy, George Braziller, New York, 1954.
Francis Watson, A Concise History of India, Thames & Hudson, London, 1974.
J. H. Williams, Big Charlie, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1950.
J. H. Williams, Elephant Bill, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1959.
Colonel Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, John Murray, London, 1903.
Bengal District Gazetteer – Gaya, 1906.
Bengal District Gazetteers – Saran, 1908.
Bengal District Gazetteers – Singhbum, Sareikela and Kharsawan – Calcutta, 1910.
Bihar and Orissa District Gazetteers – Saran, 1930.
Bihar and Orissa District Gazetteers – Cuttack, 1933.
Bihar District Gazetteer – Singhbum/Patna – Bishar, 1958.
Bihar District Gazetteer – Saran, 1960.
Bihar District Gazetteer – Ranchi, 1970.
Bihar District Gazetteer – Patna, 1970.
Hazaribagh Old Records (1761–1878), 1957.
Orissa District Gazetteers – Puri District.