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:[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.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/  ''Khyber Caravan–through Kashmir Waziristan Afghanistan Baluchistan and Northern India'']  by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/  ''Khyber Caravan–through Kashmir Waziristan Afghanistan Baluchistan and Northern India'']  by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*''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/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.
*View the [http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&uid=4345922024743697884 FIBIS Google Books Library] and click on the categories Afghanistan and Afghan Wars
*View the [http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&uid=4345922024743697884 FIBIS Google Books Library] and click on the categories Afghanistan and Afghan Wars



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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

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. 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
  • 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.
  • "Chapter XXVIII - Afghanistan" page 512, British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914, Volume IV: The Anglo-Russian Rapprochment, 1903-7 edited by G P Gooch and Harold Temperley 1929. Archive.org
  • The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Afghanistan And Nepal 1908 Archive.org mirror version, originally from the Digital Library of India. Contents: Afghanistan digital page 7, Nepal dp 10, Index dp 141. It is also available to download as a pdf from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
  • 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]. Archive.org mirror version, originally from the Digital Library of India.
  • "Russian Railways towards India" by Colonel C E de la Poer Beresford Proceedings of the Central Asian Society December 1905 Archive.org
  • Beyond Khyber Pass by Lowell Thomas. First published 1925. Some editions were titled Beyond Khyber Pass into Forbidden Afghanistan. Archive.org mirror version, originally from the Digital Library of India.. Lowell Thomas (Wikipedia) American writer and broadcaster.
  • A History Of Afghanistan by Brig-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940 Archive.org Volume I Volume II
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Routes in Afghanistan – South-East by General Staff 1912
1913 Index Map to Routes in S.E. Afghanistan by Quartermaster General, Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
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.

Other

References

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