Waziristan

See separate articles on

• North Waziristan Agency
• South Waziristan Agency
• Operations in Waziristan November 1936 - December 1937
• North West Frontier Campaigns for an overview of the campaigns

British Library holdings

The following books are available at the British Library

• Official History of operations on the N.-W. Frontier of India, 1920-35 by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1945
• Official History of operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1936-37 by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1943

External links

• Waziristan Wikipedia
• "Waziristan-The Past" by Hamid Hussain 2004 Orbat.com
• "Waziristan 1937-1939" ( 9 page pdf) by Lieut Colonel H E M Newman The Royal Engineer Journal Volume 95, number 2, 1984 from the website A Newman Family Tree, (select HEM Newman)
• These photographs have subjects which are of a Military nature and were taken by Gordon Gibbons during his tour of duty in the Northwest Frontier of India with the RAF from 1937 to 1940. Bob Holland’s Raimpais website

Historical Books on-line

• Waziristan Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908
• From the Black Mountain to Waziristan being an account of the border countries and the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the North-west frontier province, and of our military relations with them in the past by H. C. Wylly 1912 Archive.org
• Operations in Waziristan, 1919-1920 by General Staff Army Headquarters. India 1921 Archive.org
• Waziristan 1936-1937 : The problems of the North-West Frontiers of India and their Solutions by Lieut.-Colonel C. E. Bruce 1938 Archive.org
• "Report on Operations in Waziristan, 25th November 1936 to 16th January 1937 (1st Phase)" London Gazette Supplement 2 November 1937
• "Report on Operations In Waziristan, 16th January 1937 to 15th September 1937 (Second Phase)" London Gazette Supplement 18 February 1938
• "Report on Operations in Waziristan, 16th September 1937 to 15th December 1937 (Final Phase)" London Gazette Supplement 14 June 1938
• "Report on Operations in Waziristan, 16th December, 1937 to the 31st December, 1938" London Gazette Supplement 18 August 1939
• Brief Gazetteer of Most Important and Useful Place Names in Waziristan District. 1935 is available to download as a pdf from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, located under Books, Indian Subcontinent, 1935