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**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000160 ''Persia Intelligence Report. May, 1946'' [Part V<nowiki>]</nowiki>] produced by Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty, May 1946. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/40
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway'']. File created 8 May 1922. IOR/L/PS/18/C208. It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x000019 ''Where's Where in Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia''] by General Staff, India 1916 IOR/L/PS/20/84 . The catalogue description states "The volume serves as an index of places featured on Survey of India degree sheets 2C, 2D, 2G, 2H, 2K, 1L, 2O, 2P, 3A, 3E, 3I, 3J, 3M, 3N, 10A, 10B, and 10C. The places are arranged alphabetically and give the degree sheet reference". Note: Maps [degree sheets] are not included, however the following less detailed maps may '''possibly''' give an indication of location if numbering was consistent over different series. [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/index_map.jpg Index to the Sheets of the India and Adjacent Countries Series] [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/Sheet-2-baghdad-1917.jpg Sheet 2], [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/sheet-10-bushire-persia_arabia_and_turkey_in_asia-1915.jpg Sheet 10]. From [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/ Topographic maps], lib.utexas.edu.*:[https://www.newqdl.dliqa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100040685807.ernet.in0x000002 1915 edition] IOR/R/handle15/20155/208590 383* ''Old Routes Of Western Iran''] by Sir Aurel Stein 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208590 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000880.0x0002d8 ''Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service''] by Sir John Richard Cotton (b 1909). British Library Mss Eur F226/7 . Qatar Digital Library. A photocopy of a typewritten draft written c 1983. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171206135947/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383640/Sir-John-Cotton.html. ''The Telegraph'' Obituary 2002]. After spending his childhood in India, he returned in 1929, initially in the 8th (King George's Own) Light Cavalry, then joined the Indian Political Service in 1934 where he served in the Persian Gulf and in Aden, Addis Ababa in Abyssinia then a series of Indian princely states. After Independence he joined the British Foreign Service.*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. British Library Mss Eur F226/28 Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written c 1980 by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/ ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944. Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739. It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/br00itishacademytrbritrich ''The British Academy transliteration of Arabic and Persian. Report of the Committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to the languages of the Nearer East''] 1917 Archive.org
