This was an initiative by Rudyard Kipling to raise funds to return to England.
A series of cheap, disposable booklets for railway passengers to pass their journey time.
The publisher Wheeler had the monopoly on book sales at Indian ralway stations.
Info from here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Railway_Library
No. 1: Soldiers Three: a collection of stories setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd done into type and edited by Rudyard Kipling., 97 pp: "Reprinted in chief from the Weekās news"
No. 2: The Story of the Gadsbys, 100 pp: "Reprinted in chief from the Weekās news"
No. 3: In Black and White, 108 pp.: "Reprinted in chief from the Weekās news"
No. 4: Under the Deodars, 106 pp.: "Reprinted in chief from the Weekās news"
No. 5: The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales, 114 pp
archive.org/details/kipling-rudyard-the-phantom-rickshaw-and-other-eerie-tales-a.-h.-wheeler-1890/mode/2upNo. 6: Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, 104 pp.: "Reprinted in chief from the Weekās news"
No. 7: The Colonel's Crime: A Story of To-day; and, Jim's Wife - Ivan O'Beirne. 1889.
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Colonel_s_Crime/qEdAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcoverNo. 8: The Heart of a Maid - Bernice Grange, pseud. [= Alice Kipling]. 1890.
archive.org/details/heartamaid00goog/mode/2upNo. 9: Closer than a Brother - G. B. Stuart; [and] Two Broken Hearts. 1890.
No. 10: The Subaltern, the Policeman and the Little Girl: An Anglo-Indian Sketch Written in English - Brownlow Fforde. 1890.
No. 11: Doctor Victor: A Sketch - Ivan O'Beirne. 1891.
No. 12: The Trotter: A Poona Mystery - Arthur Brownlow Fforde. 1890.
No. 13: Whiffs: Anglo-Indian and Indian - Lunkah. 1891.
No. 14: The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places (1888)
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_City_of_Dreadful_Night/oQ4PAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcoverNo. 15: The Maid and the Idol: A Tangled Story of Poona - Arthur Brownlow Fforde. 1891.
No. 16: Dr. Rollison's Dilemma - L. E. Tiddeman. 1892.
No. 17: Major Craik's Craze - Ivan O'Beirne. 1892.
No. 18: Felix Holt Secundus, and A Tosa Monogatari of Modern Times - James Murdoch. [189-?].
No. 19: Cigarette Papers - S. Levett-Yeats [= Sidney Kilner Levett Yeats]. 1893.
No. 20: The Wooing of Webster. Faustus Junior, Ph. D. The Bear Hunt on Fuji-san. - A. M. [= James Murdoch]
indianculture.gov.in/ebooks/wooing-webster-faustus-junior-phd-bear-hunt-fuji-sanNo. 21: The Widow Lamport - S. Levett-Yeats [= Sidney Kilner Levett Yeats]. 1893.
No. 22: A Yoshiwara Episode: Fred Wilson's Fate - James Murdoch
No. 23: A Romance of Bureaucracy - Alpha-Beta. 1893.
No. 24: That Little Owl: A Tale of a Lunatic, a Loafer, and a Lover - Arthur Brownlow Fforde.
No. 25: Bought to Bay - H. D. E. Forbes. 1894.
No. 26: Mr. & Mrs. John Brown at Home - John Brown. 1893.
The One-Eyed Forger, and Other Detective Stories by R. Reid, and Under the Rose by Ivan O'Beirne were announced but probably not published.
Alice Kipling, who wrote No. 8 was the sister of Rudyard Kipling.
scalar.lehigh.edu/kiplings/alice-kipling-trixMore detailed info to follow.