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London Gazette and the Gazette of India
=====''London Gazette'' and the ''Gazette of India''=====
The ''[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/ London Gazette]'' may be searched online for official correspondence relating to operations in Afghanistan. As an example examples, the ''following correspondence been noted for 1880 (there may be other correspondence).*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London Gazette'' /issue/24801/page/209 dated Publication date: 16 January 1880] Issue:24801 Page:209*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24838/page/2719 27 April 1880] Issue:24838 Page:2719*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24841/page/2836 4 May 1880] Issue:24841 Page:2836*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24869/page/4197 30 July 1880] Issue:24869 Page:4197*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24892/page/5283 15 October 1880] Issue:24892 Page:5283*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24894/page/5377 22 October 1880] Issue:24894 Page:5377*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24903/page/5799 19 November 1880] Issue:24903 Page:5799*[http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24909/page/6519 Friday 3 December 1880] Issue:24909 Page:6519 contains correspondence relating to events from approximately 28 July 1880 including the siege of Kandahar and the sortie made by the garrison on 16 August 1880.*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24919/page/7003 31 December 1880] Issue:24919 Page:7003
The ''Gazette of India'' also contains some official correspondence relating to operations in Afghanistan which is not mentioned in the London Gazette. See [[Newspapers and journals online# Gazette of India| Newspapers and journals online-Gazette of India]] for some online editions. Also available at the [[British Library]] . As an example, the ''Gazette of India ''from the Digital Library of India website for the period September-December 1880 has an entry on computer page 150 from the ''Gazette of India'' dated 11 September 1880 concerning Major W Jacob of the 19th Bombay Native Infantry and the march to Chaman 29-30th July 1880.
This account is now available at [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.24050/2015.24050.The-Gazette-Of-India-1880-September---December#page/n148/mode/1up Archive.org], pages 440-442.
 
=====Fiction=====
*''The Far Pavilions'' by M.M. Kaye 1978. "...a 1,000 page epic of war and romance set in 19th century India; the book sold in its millions and was adapted for television in 1984..."
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