| | Allen, Charles | Kipling's Kingdom | Michael Joseph | | 1987 | | |
| | Allen, Charles | Kipling Sahib | Little, Brown | London | 2007 | | India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling |
| | Bennett, Mary | The Ilberts in India | BACSA | Putney | 1995 | | BACSA is Brit. Assoc. for Cemeteries in South Asia. Author is daughter of H.A.L.Fisher and an Ilbert on her mother's side. |
| | Cornell, Louis L | Kipling in India | Macmillan | London | 1966 | | |
| | Hagiioannu, Andrew | The Man who Would be Kipling | Palgrave Macmillan | London | 2003 | | The Colonial Fiction and the Frontiers of Exile |
| | Hunter, Sir William W. | The Thackerays in India & Some Calcutta Graves | Henry Frowde (OUP) | London | 1897 | | First edition. |
| | Kipling, J Lockwood | Beast and Man in India | | London | 1892 second edition | | A prime source for details of Indian animals |
| | MacMunn, Major G.F | The Armies of India - Paintings by A.C.Lovett | A. & C. Black | London | 1911 | | |
| | MacMunn, Lt.Gen. Sir George | The Living India | G. Bell & Sons | London | 1934 | | |
| | MacMunn, Lt.Gen. Sir George | The Romance of the Indian Frontiers | Jonathan Cape | London | 1931 | | |
| | Munson, Arley | Kipling's India | Eveleigh Nash & Co. | London | 1916 | | Illustrated topography. |
| | Pinney, Thomas | Kipling's India, Uncollected Sketches 1884-88 | Macmillan & Co. | London | 1986 | | |
| | Robinson, Phil | In My Indian Garden | Sampson Lowe | London | 1888 | | A book of pen portraits admired by RK and used by him as a source. Author was the son of the first editor of the Pioneer and the elder brother of E.Kay Robinson. |
| | Sanderson, G P | Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India | | London | 1878 | | A source for the Jungle Books He was the original of 'Petersen Sahib' in "Toomai of the Elephants" |
| | Sandison, Alan | The Wheel of Empire | Macmillan | London | 1967 | | |
| | Sleeman, W H | An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in their Dens | | Plymouth | 1852 Reprinted in Zoologist, 3rd series, vol xii. 1888 pp. 87-98 | | A source for the Mowgli stories |
| | Steel, Flora Annie | Tales of the Punjab | Macmillan & Co. | London | 1894 | | Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling. See also life of Steele by Violet Powell. |
| | Sterndale, R A | Seonee, or Camp Life on the Satpura Range | | London | 1877 | | Key source for the Jungle Books |
| | Sterndale, R A | Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon | Thacker Spink | Calcutta | 1884, abridged and revised by Frank Finn, 1929 | | Key source for the Jungle Books |
| | Sterndale, R A | Denizens of the Jungles:A Series of Sketches of Wild Animals, Illustrating Their Forms and Attitudes | | Calcutta | 1886 | | Key source for the Jungle Books |
| | Tennent, Sir J E | The Wild Elephant | | London | 1867 | | A source for the Jungle Books |
| | Tod, Lt-Col James | Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan | | | 1829 and many subsequent reprints | | Source for Kipling when travelling in Rajasthan |
| | Wurgaft, Lewis D. | The Imperial Imagination: Magic and Myth in Kipling's India | Wesleyan UP | Middletown,CT | 1983 | | What psychohistory can and should be. |