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*[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html#index Index of place names for Constable's 1893 Area Maps] from Ian Poyntz’s [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html Historical Maps of India]
 
*[https://archive.org/details/TravellersCompanion ''The Travellers Companion, containing a brief description of places of pilgrimage and important towns of India''] by Abdur Rasheed. Compiled under the orders of the Railway Board. 1907 Archive.org
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===Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia===
*Four out of six volumes of a reprint edition of ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer , published 1908 to 1915. Volume I, Historical consists of Part I being the 'Arabian' portion of the History and Part II being the 'Persian' section of the History. Both Parts of Volume I, Historical, have the same extensive index, covering all Parts.**Four out of six volumes of a reprint edition are available to read online at [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011590480 Hathi Trust Digital Library] . The volumes are Volume I: Historical: Part I (in two parts) and Volume II: Geographical and Statistical (in two parts)**The Qatar Digital Library contains copies of the original editions held at the British Library. Note: these webpages may be very slow to load at times***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023575941.0x00000d Volume I: Historical: Part I] IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1. The 'Arabian' portion of the History***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514760.0x00000b Volume I: Historical: Part II] IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2. The 'Persian' section of the History***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023515185.0x00000f Volume I: Historical: Part III] Geneaological Tables and a Map IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023515711.0x00000d Volume II: Geographical and Statistical] IOR/L/PS/20/C91/4. Includes alphabetical entries for tribes, towns and regions, from ‘Abdalilah to Zubārah. It also contains fifty-six reproductions of photographs taken by British colonial officers and others. ***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023463659.0x000001 1905-1908 Map of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia] compiled in the Foreign Office, Simla, by Lieut. F.F. Hunder IOR/L/PS/20/C91/6***Click on “About this record” for information about the contents. To select a particular page, click on “View all items”.**Three volumes of the ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer, Indian Civil Service, are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, being Parts I and II (missing Part III), of Volume 1, Historical, published 1915 and the Geographical section of Volume II, Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer, published 1908.::Both Parts of Volume I, Historical, have the same extensive index, covering all Parts. Part I consists of the 'Arabian' portion of the History. ***Part I Contents computer pages 12-137. Text commences cp 138. Part II consists of the 'Persian' section of the History. Part II Contents computer pages 10-133. Text commences cp 134. Appendix "Published books and articles" cp 1210. Part III (a portfolio of genealogical trees of the ruling families) is not available online.::Volume II Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer. There is no Index. Introduction pages i-iii are missing. The text is cp 8-2047 and appears to be all Geographical. The Statistical portion is perhaps another volume, which is not available online. :The Qatar Digital Library contains (at October 2014), copies of the original editions of ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer::**[http://wwwnla.qdlgov.qa/enau/archive/81055/vdc_100023514760nla.0x00000b map-vn2552250 Volume I: Historical: , Part IIIII] and::of a reprint edition is available on the National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps [http://wwwnla.qdlgov.qa/enau/archive/81055/vdc_100023515711nla.0x00000d Volume II: Geographical and Statisticalcat-vn2552250 Catalogue entry]: Click on “About this record” for information about . It contains two maps (including the map of the contents. To select a particular pagePersian Gulf, click on “View all items”Oman and Central Arabia) and genealogical trees.
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