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*Routes
**''Routes in Asia''. Variant Title: ''Routes in Central Asia''. Calcutta : Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1877-1878. "Compiled under the direction of Major General Fred. S. Roberts, C.B., V.C., Quarter Master General in India ...". [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9PmaJ7H3JLEC&pg=PP7  ''Section 2. Routes in Afghanistan''] compiled ... by F.J.N. Mackenzie Google Books
**''Routes in Asia''. Variant Title: ''Routes in Central Asia''. Calcutta : Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1877-1878. "Compiled under the direction of Major General Fred. S. Roberts, C.B., V.C., Quarter Master General in India ...". [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9PmaJ7H3JLEC&pg=PP7  ''Section 2. Routes in Afghanistan''] compiled ... by F.J.N. Mackenzie Google Books
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1890-military-routes-to-the-indo-afghan-frontier-by-lessar-secret-s-pdf/ 1890 ''Military Routes to the Indo-Afghan Frontier''] by Lessar (secret)]  Notes: At head of title: Secret. "From Russian official "records" of geographical, topographical and statistical materials on Asia. Collected by the Military Scientific Committee of the Headquarters Staff, 1890. Translated for the Intelligence Division of the War Office". HMSO. Author: P. M. Lessar, (Pavel Mikhailovich) Pdf download, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1890-military-routes-to-the-indo-afghan-frontier-by-lessar-secret-s-pdf/ 1890 ''Military Routes to the Indo-Afghan Frontier''] by Lessar (secret)]  Notes: At head of title: Secret. "From Russian official "records" of geographical, topographical and statistical materials on Asia. Collected by the Military Scientific Committee of the Headquarters Staff, 1890. Translated for the Intelligence Division of the War Office". HMSO. Author: P. M. Lessar, (Pavel Mikhailovich) Pdf download, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1202 Archive.org mirror version].
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-routes-from-russian-territory-toward-afghanistan-and-india-the-pamir-line-of-advance-by-robertson-confidential-s-pdf/ 1893 ''Routes from Russian Territory toward Afghanistan and India - the Pamir line of Advance''] by Robertson (confidential). Full title: ''Routes from Russian Territory in Central Asia towards Afghanistan and India. Section 1, The Pamir line of advance''  compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by W.R. Robertson. 1893. Contents: pt. 1. Short military report on the Ferghana province, Kashgar, the Pamirs and Upper Oxus Afghan provinces ... - pt. 2. Includes all routes leading from the Chimkend Kuldja postal road to the Hindu Kush between the Dorah and the Karakorum Passes. Pdf download, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-routes-from-russian-territory-toward-afghanistan-and-india-the-pamir-line-of-advance-by-robertson-confidential-s-pdf/ 1893 ''Routes from Russian Territory toward Afghanistan and India - the Pamir line of Advance''] by Robertson (confidential). Full title: ''Routes from Russian Territory in Central Asia towards Afghanistan and India. Section 1, The Pamir line of advance''  compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by W.R. Robertson. 1893. Contents: pt. 1. Short military report on the Ferghana province, Kashgar, the Pamirs and Upper Oxus Afghan provinces ... - pt. 2. Includes all routes leading from the Chimkend Kuldja postal road to the Hindu Kush between the Dorah and the Karakorum Passes. Pdf download, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1292/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].  
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1912-routes-in-afghanistan-south-east-by-general-staff-s-pdf/  ''Routes in Afghanistan – South-East''] by General Staff 1912
**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1912-routes-in-afghanistan-south-east-by-general-staff-s-pdf/  ''Routes in Afghanistan – South-East''] by General Staff 1912. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1947/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1913-index-map-to-routes-in-s-e-afghanistan-by-quartermaster-general-jpg/ 1913 Index Map to Routes in S.E. Afghanistan] by Quartermaster General, Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1913-index-map-to-routes-in-s-e-afghanistan-by-quartermaster-general-jpg/ 1913 Index Map to Routes in S.E. Afghanistan] by Quartermaster General, Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000112690577?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan''] by  Major H G Raverty, Bombay Native Infantry (Retired) 1880 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38715 Archive.org mirror version] 1888, originally from the Digital Library of India.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000112690577?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan''] by  Major H G Raverty, Bombay Native Infantry (Retired) 1880 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38715 Archive.org mirror version] 1888, originally from the Digital Library of India.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1885-indias-danger-and-englands-duty-history-of-russian-advance-upon-afghanistan-by-russell-s-pdf/ ''India's Danger, and England's Duty with reference to Russia's Advance into the territory upon the borders of Afghanistan''] by Richard Russell 1885.  PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books /Afghanistan.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1885-indias-danger-and-englands-duty-history-of-russian-advance-upon-afghanistan-by-russell-s-pdf/ ''India's Danger, and England's Duty with reference to Russia's Advance into the territory upon the borders of Afghanistan''] by Richard Russell 1885.  PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books /Afghanistan. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1082 Archive.org mirror version].  
*[http://archive.org/stream/englandrussiafac00yate#page/n7/mode/2up  ''England and Russia face to face in Asia: travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission''] by  Lieutenant Arthur Campbell Yate, Bombay Staff Corps  1887 Archive.org  
*[http://archive.org/stream/englandrussiafac00yate#page/n7/mode/2up  ''England and Russia face to face in Asia: travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission''] by  Lieutenant Arthur Campbell Yate, Bombay Staff Corps  1887 Archive.org  
*[http://archive.org/stream/northernafghanis00yaterich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Northern Afghanistan or, Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission''] by Major Charles Edward Yate, Bombay Staff Corps 1888 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/northernafghanis00yaterich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Northern Afghanistan or, Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission''] by Major Charles Edward Yate, Bombay Staff Corps 1888 Archive.org
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:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-4-kabul-by-mason-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 4 Kabul''] by Mason (secret)
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-4-kabul-by-mason-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 4 Kabul''] by Mason (secret)
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-5-farah-and-kandahar-by-elles-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 5 Farah and Kandahar''] by Elles (secret)
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-5-farah-and-kandahar-by-elles-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 5 Farah and Kandahar''] by Elles (secret)
:Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Issued by the Intelligence Branch, Q.M.G.'s Department. Published Calcutta. Secret.  Contents: pt. 1. Badakhshan  by E.G. Barrow - pt. 2. Afghan Turkistan  by E.G. Barrow - pt. 3. Herat  by E.G. Barrow - pt. 4. Kabul  by A.H. Mason - pt. 5. Farah and Kandahar  by E.R. Elles.
:Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28+The+Military+Geography+of+Afghanistan%29&sort=titleSorter Archive.org mirror versions, Parts 1-5]. Issued by the Intelligence Branch, Q.M.G.'s Department. Published Calcutta. Secret.  Contents: pt. 1. Badakhshan  by E.G. Barrow - pt. 2. Afghan Turkistan  by E.G. Barrow - pt. 3. Herat  by E.G. Barrow - pt. 4. Kabul  by A.H. Mason - pt. 5. Farah and Kandahar  by E.R. Elles.


*[https://archive.org/details/lightsshadesofhi00gore ''Lights & Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu Highlands of the Punjab, a Contrast'']  by F St J Gore 1895 Archive.org. With photographs by the author. Part I Kulu. Part II Kuram.  
*[https://archive.org/details/lightsshadesofhi00gore ''Lights & Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu Highlands of the Punjab, a Contrast'']  by F St J Gore 1895 Archive.org. With photographs by the author. Part I Kulu. Part II Kuram.  
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* ''The Frontiers Of Baluchistan'' by G P Tate 1909. Full title: ''The Frontiers of Baluchistan : Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan'' [Seistan (Sistan) Arbitration Mission, 1903-1905]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170320 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India.
* ''The Frontiers Of Baluchistan'' by G P Tate 1909. Full title: ''The Frontiers of Baluchistan : Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan'' [Seistan (Sistan) Arbitration Mission, 1903-1905]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170320 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.88498/page/ii/mode/2up ''Leaves from an Afghan Scrapbook: The Experiences of an English Official and his Wife in Kabul''] by Ernest and Annie Thornton 1910. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.88498/page/ii/mode/2up ''Leaves from an Afghan Scrapbook: The Experiences of an English Official and his Wife in Kabul''] by Ernest and Annie Thornton 1910. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2883/page/n3/mode/2up  ''An American Engineer in Afghanistan from the Letters and Notes of A C Jewett''], edited by Marjorie Jewett Bell 1948. Archive.org, mirror from  Pahar: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. A C Jewett was chief engineer of the Amir from 1911 to 1919 in charge of installing a hydroelectric plant for Kabul.
* ''Beyond Khyber Pass'' by Lowell Thomas. First published 1925. Some editions were titled  ''Beyond Khyber Pass into Forbidden Afghanistan''.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175794 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas Lowell Thomas] (Wikipedia) American writer and  broadcaster.  
* ''Beyond Khyber Pass'' by Lowell Thomas. First published 1925. Some editions were titled  ''Beyond Khyber Pass into Forbidden Afghanistan''.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175794 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas Lowell Thomas] (Wikipedia) American writer and  broadcaster.  
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-pedalling-through-the-afghan-wilds-being-the-experiences-of-kj-kharas-s-pdf/  ''Pedalling Through The Afghan Wilds.  Being the Experiences of K.J. Kharas, R.D. Ghandhi, and R.D. Shroff''] 1935. Link to a pdf download Pahar-  Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-pedalling-through-the-afghan-wilds-being-the-experiences-of-kj-kharas-s-pdf/  ''Pedalling Through The Afghan Wilds.  Being the Experiences of K.J. Kharas, R.D. Ghandhi, and R.D. Shroff''] 1935. Link to a pdf download Pahar-  Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2612/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].  
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77252 ''Across The Highways Of The World''] by  K J Kharas,  R D Gandhi,  R D Shroff. Second edition 1941, first published 1939. Archive.org,  Public Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77252 ''Across The Highways Of The World''] by  K J Kharas,  R D Gandhi,  R D Shroff. Second edition 1941, first published 1939. Archive.org,  Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209132/page/n5/mode/2up ''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India'']  by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/  PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209132/page/n5/mode/2up ''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India'']  by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/  PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936.

Revision as of 12:30, 31 August 2021

Afghanistan in 1993 - click to enlarge the image.

Locations

Wars involving British India

External links

Encyclopedia entries

Archives

  • Historical maps from the University of Texas Austin, including some relating to the First and Second Afghan Wars
  • An article Historical Sources for Afghanistan In the British Library, 2005 by Richard Scott Morel, page 26 of this pdf link
  • Phototheca Afghanica Historical Images
 of Afghanistan. A project of Foundation Bibliotheca Afghanica, CH-4416 Bubendorf.

Historical books online

Search the Qatar Digital Library for other items.
Précis of the principal correspondence, &c., showing the policy and relations of the British Government toward Afghanistan, April 1872-May 1879 Calcutta : Printed at the Foreign Dept. Press, 1879. Variant Title: Afghanistan précis, 1872-1879. PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Afghanistan
Afghanistan (1881) No.1. Further Correspondence Relating to the Affairs of Afghanistan including the recognition of Sirdar Abdul Rahman Khan as Amir of Kabul Presented to both Houses of Parliament. HMSO 1881 Archive.org
A Precis on Afghan Affairs from February 1919 to September 1927 by R R Maconachie, Foreign and Political Department, Government of India. 1928. Archive.org
Precis on Afghan Affairs, Volume II: from the middle of 1927 to the end of 1936 by ADF Dundas, Foreign and Political Department , Government of India. 1938. Archive.org
Other official publications, not known to be available online: Memorandum on Afghanistan affairs. From AD 1700 by J Talboys Wheeler, Assistant Secretary to Government of India, Foreign Department Calcutta: [Govt of India Foreign Dept] 1869. Available at the British Library IOR/L/PS/20/B10. Recent events in Afghanistan [1866-1868]. Continuation of Mr Wyllie's precis by H L Wynne, Under-Secretary to Government of India, Foreign Department [Simla: Govt of India Foreign Dept, 1868]. BL IOR/L/PS/20/B11. Precis on Afghan affairs by Lt-Col C J Windham Calcutta: Govt of India, 1914 [May 1879 to November 1893] BL IOR/L/PS/20/B258
Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab, and Kalât, During a Residence in Those Countries: To which is Added an Account of the Insurrection at Kalât, and a Memoir on Eastern Balochistan by Charles Masson 1844 Google Books Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. Frontier of Afghanistan in 1875, by Colonel C.M. MacGregor. 1879. Volume I HathiTrust Digital Library Archive.org mirror version, originally from the Digital Library of India; Volume II HathiTrust Digital Library, Archive.org mirror version, originally from the Digital Library of India.
1893 The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 2 Afghan Turkistan by Barrow (secret)
1893 The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 3 Herat by Barrow (secret)
1893 The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 4 Kabul by Mason (secret)
1893 The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 5 Farah and Kandahar by Elles (secret)
Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Archive.org mirror versions, Parts 1-5. Issued by the Intelligence Branch, Q.M.G.'s Department. Published Calcutta. Secret. Contents: pt. 1. Badakhshan by E.G. Barrow - pt. 2. Afghan Turkistan by E.G. Barrow - pt. 3. Herat by E.G. Barrow - pt. 4. Kabul by A.H. Mason - pt. 5. Farah and Kandahar by E.R. Elles.
India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma by J Talboys Wheeler 1899 Printed in New York. Volume I, Volume II. Includes a supplementary chapter in Volume II, but otherwise the text is probably the same.
India by Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich 1904 Archive.org
The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
Political Frontiers and Boundary Making by Col. Sir Thomas H Holdich 1916
"Between the Tigris and the Indus" by Colonel Sir Thomas H Holdich The Geographical Review Volume IV September 1, 1917 Archive.org
Across The Highways Of The World by K J Kharas, R D Gandhi, R D Shroff. Second edition 1941, first published 1939. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
Tournament of Shadows : the Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac 1999. Archive.org Lending Library. Also available as a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books/Central Asia.

Other

References

  1. "Letts’s Bird’s Eye View of the Approaches to India" by Anni Qu March 11, 2018. Mappenstance, University of Richmond.