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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0lMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains''] by [A.H. Irby].  1863 Google Books. Kashmir and adjacent countries, principally Ladak.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0lMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains''] by [A.H. Irby].  1863 Google Books. Kashmir and adjacent countries, principally Ladak.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofpedestria00knigrich  ''Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet''] by Captain Knight, Forty-Eighth Regiment 1863 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofpedestria00knigrich  ''Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet''] by Captain Knight, Forty-Eighth Regiment 1863 Archive.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.a0009787946?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Sikkim. With hints on mountain and jungle warfare. Exhibiting also the facilities for opening commercial relations through the state of Sikhim with Central Asia, Thibet, and western China'']  by Colonel J. C. Gawler 1873  HathiTrust Digital Library.  Also available as a pdf download [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1873-sikhim-with-hints-on-mountain-and-jungle-warfare-by-gawler-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset].
*[https://archive.org/details/visitstohightart00shaw_0 ''Visits To High Tartary, Yarkand, And Kashghar (formerly Chinese Tartary), and Return Journey Over the Karakoram Pass''] by Robert Shaw 1871 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/kashmirkashgharn00bellrich ''Kashmir and Kashghar. A narrative of the journey of the embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74''] by H W Bellew, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Staff Corps 1875 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/avariedlifearec00gordgoog ''A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902''] by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org.  Appointed to the Indian Army Indian Staff Corps 1862,  appointed to the Kashgar Mission in 1873.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023493517 ''The Roof of the World : being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir''] by Lieutenant-Colonel T E Gordon, Honorary Aide-De-Camp to the Viceroy of India, lately attached to the Special Mission to Kashghar 1876 Archive.org. Includes Kashghar.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiertraveller00gardiala ''Soldier and traveller; memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh''] [1785-1877] edited by Major Hugh Pearse 1898 Archive.org. [https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/the-fantastic-adventures-of-the-tartan-turbaned-colonel/# "The fantastic adventures of the tartan-turbaned colonel"] by William Dalrymple 13 May 2017 ''The Spectator''.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiertraveller00gardiala ''Soldier and traveller; memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh''] [1785-1877] edited by Major Hugh Pearse 1898 Archive.org. [https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/the-fantastic-adventures-of-the-tartan-turbaned-colonel/# "The fantastic adventures of the tartan-turbaned colonel"] by William Dalrymple 13 May 2017 ''The Spectator''.
*''Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal'' by Sir Richard Temple 1887 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088752621?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/journalskeptinh01tempgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*''Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal'' by Sir Richard Temple 1887 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088752621?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/journalskeptinh01tempgoog Volume II] Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] by Major R L Kennion 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh until 1907.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] by Major R L Kennion 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh until 1907.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/kashmiryounghusb00youniala#page/n9/mode/2up ''Kashmir''] described by [[Francis Younghusband|Sir Francis Younghusband KCIE]] and painted by Major E Molyneux. DSO. 1911 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/kashmiryounghusb00youniala#page/n9/mode/2up ''Kashmir''] described by [[Francis Younghusband|Sir Francis Younghusband KCIE]] and painted by Major E Molyneux. DSO. 1911 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/acrossroofofworl00etherich ''Across the roof of the world; a record of sport and travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia''] by Lieut P T Etherton, 39th Garhwal Rifles (Indian Army) 1911 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/acrossroofofworl00etherich ''Across the roof of the world; a record of sport and travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia''] by Lieut P T Etherton, 39th Garhwal Rifles (Indian Army) 1911 Archive.org. Percy T. Etherton subsequently became the British consul in Kashgar, Xinjiang, in 1918-1922, see [[Norperforce]].
*[https://archive.org/details/b29353014  ''Beyond the Pir Panjal : life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir'']  by Ernest F. Neve 1912.  Archive.org. The author was a doctor who worked at the Kashmir Medical Mission.
*[https://archive.org/details/b29353014  ''Beyond the Pir Panjal : life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir'']  by Ernest F. Neve 1912.  Archive.org. The author was a doctor who worked at the Kashmir Medical Mission.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/173082 ''The Realm Of The Gods''] by Captain C M  Enriquez 1915. Full title: ''The Realm of the Gods; a tale of travel in Kangra, Mandi, Kulu, Chamba, Kishtwar, Kashmir, Ladakh and Baltistan''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173082 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/173082 ''The Realm Of The Gods''] by Captain C M  Enriquez 1915. Full title: ''The Realm of the Gods; a tale of travel in Kangra, Mandi, Kulu, Chamba, Kishtwar, Kashmir, Ladakh and Baltistan''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173082 Archive.org version].
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*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1921-camera-shikar-and-guide-for-visitors-to-kashmir-by-brown-s-pdf/ ''Camera Shikar and Guide for Visitors to Kashmir''] by Brown. 1921. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Full title: ''Camera Shikar and Guide for Visitors to Kashmir : being the wanderings of an artist with camera, brush and pen through the Happy Valley and its mountains''  compiled from the diaries of Browyne Longnose-Brown and some entries by his companion Mac.  
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1921-camera-shikar-and-guide-for-visitors-to-kashmir-by-brown-s-pdf/ ''Camera Shikar and Guide for Visitors to Kashmir''] by Brown. 1921. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Full title: ''Camera Shikar and Guide for Visitors to Kashmir : being the wanderings of an artist with camera, brush and pen through the Happy Valley and its mountains''  compiled from the diaries of Browyne Longnose-Brown and some entries by his companion Mac.  
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag211edinuoft#page/318/mode/2up "A Shooting Trip in Chamba"] by F L Farrer  page 318 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 211 January-June 1922  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag211edinuoft#page/318/mode/2up "A Shooting Trip in Chamba"] by F L Farrer  page 318 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 211 January-June 1922  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/kashmirinsunligh00tynd_0 ''Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade : a description of the beauties of the country, the life, habits, and humour of its inhabitants and an account of the gradual but steady rebuilding of a once down-trodden people''] by  C E Tyndale-Biscoe, of the Church Missionary Society High School in Srinagar. 1922 Archive.org.  
*[https://archive.org/details/kashmirinsunligh00tynd_0 ''Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade : a description of the beauties of the country, the life, habits, and humour of its inhabitants and an account of the gradual but steady rebuilding of a once down-trodden people''] by  C E Tyndale-Biscoe, of the Church Missionary Society High School in Srinagar. 1922 Archive.org.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1922-routes-in-western-himalaya-kashmir-c-vol-1-punch-kashmir-ladakh-by-mason-s-pdf/  ''Routes in Western-Himalaya Kashmir &c Volume 1 Punch, Kashmir, Ladakh''] by Kenneth Mason. [''Púnch, Kashmír & Ladákh'']. Published under the direction of the Surveyor General of India, 1922 and printed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, Dehra Dun.  Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*''Beyond Leh: A Shooting Trip in Ladakh, 1926'' by K. W. Dickson, wife of R, a Medical Officer. ''Journal of the  Royal Army Medical Corps''   
*''Beyond Leh: A Shooting Trip in Ladakh, 1926'' by K. W. Dickson, wife of R, a Medical Officer. ''Journal of the  Royal Army Medical Corps''   
:[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/5/377.full.pdf Part 1] 1933;60:5 377-392. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/6/456.full.pdf Part 2] 1933;60:6 456-461. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/1/61.full.pdf Part 3] 1933;61:1 61-70. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/2/133.full.pdf Part 4] 1933;61:2 133-144. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/4/304.full.pdf Part 5] 1933;61:4 304-309. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/5/379.full.pdf Part 6] 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7: not online. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/2/142.full.pdf Part 8] 1934;62:2 142-150. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/3/224.full.pdf Part 9] 1934;62:3 224-233. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/5/365.full.pdf Part 10] 1934;62:5 365-376. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/6/430.full.pdf Part 11] 1934;62:6 430-440. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/2/127.full.pdf Part 12] 1934;63:2 127-134. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/193.full.pdf Part 13] 1934;63:3 193-206.   
:[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/5/377.full.pdf Part 1] 1933;60:5 377-392. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/6/456.full.pdf Part 2] 1933;60:6 456-461. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/1/61.full.pdf Part 3] 1933;61:1 61-70. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/2/133.full.pdf Part 4] 1933;61:2 133-144. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/4/304.full.pdf Part 5] 1933;61:4 304-309. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/5/379.full.pdf Part 6] 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7: not online. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/2/142.full.pdf Part 8] 1934;62:2 142-150. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/3/224.full.pdf Part 9] 1934;62:3 224-233. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/5/365.full.pdf Part 10] 1934;62:5 365-376. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/6/430.full.pdf Part 11] 1934;62:6 430-440. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/2/127.full.pdf Part 12] 1934;63:2 127-134. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/193.full.pdf Part 13] 1934;63:3 193-206.   
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1973-macartney-at-kashgar-by-skrine-s-pdf/ ''Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918''] by  C.P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale. 1973. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in  ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan''  first published 1931. A later biography is ''The Diplomat of Kashgar: A Very Special Agent. The Life of Sir George Macartney, 18 January 1867-19 May 1945'' by James McCarthy.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403 ''Chinese Central Asia''] by C P Skrine. Indian Civil Service, British Consul General in Chinese Turkistan  1922-1924. First published 1926 Archive.org. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001872231  Hathi Trust Digital Library version] where images are rotatable.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarmont_Percival_Skrine Clarmont Percival Skrine] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403 ''Chinese Central Asia''] by C P Skrine. Indian Civil Service, British Consul General in Chinese Turkistan  1922-1924. First published 1926 Archive.org. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001872231  Hathi Trust Digital Library version] where images are rotatable.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarmont_Percival_Skrine Clarmont Percival Skrine] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/MallinsonRecipes ''Recipes''] by  The Mallinson Girls’ School , Srinagar.  unknown date, but probably after 1961. Archive.org. This school was  established in 1912  as the Girls' Mission High School and was later named after the Church Missionary Society Missionary,  Miss Muriel Pauline Mallinson, probably after she retired c 1961. The School is now part of the Tyndale-Biscoe & Mallinson Schools, Srinagar.
*[https://archive.org/details/MallinsonRecipes ''Recipes''] by  The Mallinson Girls’ School , Srinagar.  unknown date, but probably after 1961. Archive.org. This school was  established in 1912  as the Girls' Mission High School and was later named after the Church Missionary Society Missionary,  Miss Muriel Pauline Mallinson, probably after she retired c 1961. The School is now part of the Tyndale-Biscoe & Mallinson Schools, Srinagar.

Revision as of 01:32, 24 February 2018

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This article convers Kashmir and other nearby countries of Central or High Asia.

Kashmir and Jammu was a Princely State which was created in 1846 after the 1st Sikh War. The British annexed the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan and tranferred it to Maharajah Gulab Singh for an indemnity payment. The capital of Kashmir was Srinagar.

Spelling variants

Modern name: Kashmir Variants: Cashmere

FIBIS resources

External links

  • Jammu and Kashmir Wikipedia (retrieved 16 June 2016)
  • Heritage tag for 110-yr-old power project by Majid Jahangir. The second oldest power project, the Mohura [Mohra] Power House located in the Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, was commissioned in 1902. The Tribune Saturday, September 1, 2012, Chandigarh. The Mohura Power House was situated midway between Uri and Baramulla.
  • Kashmir Photograph Collection flickr.com Contains 190 photographs taken 1911-c 1946.
  • "Returning to Kashmir, where our parents were shot in front of us" by Andrew Whitehead 16 November 2017 from Baramulla, Kashmir. BBC com. Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Dykes of the Sikh Regiment, and his wife Biddy, and four others were shot dead at St Joseph's Catholic Mission Hospital in the riverside town of Baramulla. Kashmir in October 1947.

Historical books online

Gazetteer Of Kashmir And Ladak 1890 . Full title: Gazetteer of Kashmír and Ladak : together with routes in the territories of the Maharaja of Jamu and Kashmir compiled (for political and military reference) under the direction of the Quarter Master General in India in the Intelligence Branch 1890. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version
1918; 1927, 14th edition. Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
1927, 14th edition; 1933, 15th edition Revised by E.F. Neve. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India. 1927 Archive.org version, 1933 Archive.org version.
Narrative of a journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo pass, in the Himalaya Mountains viâ Gwalior, Agra, Delhi, and Sirhind; by Major Sir William Lloyd. And Captain Alexander Gerard's account of an attempt to penetrate by Bekhur to Garoo, and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from the late J.G. Gerard, esq. detailing a visit to the Shatool and Boorendo passes, for the purpose of determining tte line of perpetual snow on the southern face of the Himalaya. Ed. by George Lloyd, published 1840. Volume I [1821-1822] Google Books. Volume II Captain Alexander Gerard’s Narrative 1821 Archive.org. Article about the book, page 421 The Monthly Review, From January To April Inclusive. 1840 Google Books.
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III Google Books
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III British Library Digital Collection. Images can be rotated.
Some sources give her names as Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. [1] There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. Article about the book by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu
The Roof of the World : being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir by Lieutenant-Colonel T E Gordon, Honorary Aide-De-Camp to the Viceroy of India, lately attached to the Special Mission to Kashghar 1876 Archive.org. Includes Kashghar.
Part 1 1933;60:5 377-392. Part 2 1933;60:6 456-461. Part 3 1933;61:1 61-70. Part 4 1933;61:2 133-144. Part 5 1933;61:4 304-309. Part 6 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7: not online. Part 8 1934;62:2 142-150. Part 9 1934;62:3 224-233. Part 10 1934;62:5 365-376. Part 11 1934;62:6 430-440. Part 12 1934;63:2 127-134. Part 13 1934;63:3 193-206.
  • Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918 by C.P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale. 1973. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan first published 1931. A later biography is The Diplomat of Kashgar: A Very Special Agent. The Life of Sir George Macartney, 18 January 1867-19 May 1945 by James McCarthy.
  • Chinese Central Asia by C P Skrine. Indian Civil Service, British Consul General in Chinese Turkistan 1922-1924. First published 1926 Archive.org. Hathi Trust Digital Library version where images are rotatable. Clarmont Percival Skrine Wikipedia.
  • Recipes by The Mallinson Girls’ School , Srinagar. unknown date, but probably after 1961. Archive.org. This school was established in 1912 as the Girls' Mission High School and was later named after the Church Missionary Society Missionary, Miss Muriel Pauline Mallinson, probably after she retired c 1961. The School is now part of the Tyndale-Biscoe & Mallinson Schools, Srinagar.
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References

  1. Snippet Search result from ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books