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*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofindia00coll "The Defence of India"] by Lieut.-General Sir Edwin Collen ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' March 1906. Archive.org
*''The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia'' by Peter Hopkirk 1992. [https://archive.org/details/greatgame00pete Book File 1]. [https://archive.org/details/greatgamestruggl00hopk Book File 2] Archive.org Lending Library. “The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia… When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay 2000 miles apart; by the end, this distance had shrunk to twenty miles at some points.”
:[https://archive.org/details/likehiddenfirepl00hopk ''Like Hidden Fire : the Plot to bring down the British Empire''] by Peter Hopkirk 1994 Archive.org Lending Library. WW1 period.
:[https://archive.org/details/settingeastablaz00pete ''Setting the East Ablaze : Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia''] by Peter Hopkirk 1985 Archive.org Lending Library. 1920s-1930s.
: Peter Hopkirk was with ''The Times'' of London for nineteen years, as chief reporter and Middle and Far East specialist.
*[https://archive.org/details/tournamentofshad00meye ''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 [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1999-tournament-of-shadows-the-great-game-and-the-race-for-empire-in-central-asia-by-meyer-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If the download link does not display, locate under Books/Central Asia.
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n7/mode/2up'' Indian Defence Problem: A Study''] by Capt G V Modak 1933 Archive.org. The author “spent many years in active military service in an important Indian State”. [https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n27/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n29/mode/2up Statistical Contents]
