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*''Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest including Sinde Afghanistan Beloochistan The Punjab and the Neighbouring States'' by Edward Thornton, 1844 [http://books.google.com/books?id=4rgBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 1, A-K], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume 2, L-Z], together with an Appendix containing 'Routes' and an [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA379 Index (A-Z)] Google Books *[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00099264u?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Central Asia Part II: A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, & history of Afghanistan complied (for political and military reference)''] by C.M. MacGregor. 1871 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. Probably this title: Also available [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernetpahar.in/handlewpfb-file/20151871-central-asia-part-2-a-contribution-towards-the-better-knowledge-of-topography-ethnology-resources-and-history-of-afghanistan-by-macgregor-s-pdf/278643 '' PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Part-i Vol-ii''Digital Dataset] Pdf as a pdf download. If the downloadbutton does not display, Digital Library of Indialocate under Books/Afghanistan.*:''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. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408315?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume I] Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library [httphttps://dliarchive.sercorg/details/in.iiscernet.ernetdli.in/handle/2015/.285074 Pdf downloadArchive.org mirror version] , originally from the Digital Library of India; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408323?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40188 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Libraryof India.*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100043188480.0x000001 ''Russian Advances in Asia''] Prepared at the Topographical and Statistical Department, War Office. (The first portion reprinted from a paper prepared by Colonel Cooke.) Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division. [London], 1873. British Library Digital. "For Official Circulation Only"*Routes**''Routes in Asia''. Variant Title: ''Routes in Central Asia''. Calcutta : Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1877-1878. "Compiled under the direction of Major General Fred. S. Roberts, C.B., V.C., Quarter Master General in India ...". [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9PmaJ7H3JLEC&pg=PP7 ''Section 2. Routes in Afghanistan''] compiled ... by F.J.N. Mackenzie Google Books**[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1890-military-routes-to-the-indo-afghan-frontier-by-lessar-secret-s-pdf/ 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. [https://archive.org/details/dli.sercpahar.iisc1202 Archive.ernetorg mirror version].**[http://pahar.in/handlewpfb-file/20151893-routes-from-russian-territory-toward-afghanistan-and-india-the-pamir-line-of-advance-by-robertson-confidential-s-pdf/40188 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. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1292/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version] . **[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1912-routes-in-afghanistan-south-east-by-general-staff-s-pdf/ ''Routes in Afghanistan – South-East''] by General Staff 1912. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1947/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. *:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1913-index-map-to-routes-in-s-e-afghanistan-by-quartermaster-general-jpg/ 1913 Index Map to Routes in S.E. Afghanistan] by Quartermaster General, Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Library of IndiaDataset.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000112690577?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan''] by Major H G Raverty, Bombay Native Infantry (Retired) 1880 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [httphttps://dliarchive.sercorg/details/in.iiscernet.ernetdli.in/handle/2015/.38715 Pdf downloadArchive.org mirror version] 1888, originally from the Digital Library of India.*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1885-indias-danger-and-englands-duty-history-of-russian-advance-upon-afghanistan-by-russell-s-pdf/ ''India's Danger, and England's Duty with reference to Russia's Advance into the territory upon the borders of Afghanistan''] by Richard Russell 1885. PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books /Afghanistan. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1082 Archive.org mirror version].
→Historical books online
====Archives====
*[https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?additional_subjects=Library%20of%20Congress%20Afghanistan%20Project The Library of Congress Afghanistan Project]. World Digital Library. Click on "Narrow results", top left hand side of webpage, to filter by various criteria, or the criteria may be displayed. *[http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/afghanuno Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection] at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=afghanenglish Catalogueto 1998]. Online books to [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/afghanenglish download], by year of being digitised.
*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html#afhistorical.html Historical maps] from the University of Texas Austin, including some relating to the First and Second Afghan Wars
====Historical books online====
*Online books from [https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?languages=eng&item_type=book&additional_subjects=Library+of+Congress+Afghanistan+Project The Library of Congress Afghanistan Project] World Digital Library. Also include publications in respect of the surrounding countries.
*Online books to download from [https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/afghanuno/ Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection] at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, by year of publication.
*[http://pahar.in/books/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset] includes a category Books: Afghanistan, listed by year of publication, some of which are linked below.
*Gazetteers
**''Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest including Sinde Afghanistan Beloochistan The Punjab and the Neighbouring States'' by Edward Thornton, 1844 [http://books.google.com/books?id=4rgBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 1, A-K], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume 2, L-Z], together with an Appendix containing 'Routes' and an [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA379 Index (A-Z)] Google Books
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1988 ''Gazetteer of Afghanistan Part 1 Badakhshan 1914''] 5th edition by General Staff India. Note catalogued as Badakshan. Archive.org.
**''Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan''. Updated editions 1972-1985 of ''Gazetteer of Afghanistan'', compiled 1914. Edited by Ludwig W Adamec.
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3421/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 1 ''Badakhshan Province and Northeastern Afghanistan''] 1972
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3435/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 2 ''Farah and Southwestern Afghanistan''] 1973
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3468/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 3 ''Herat and Northwestern Afghanistan''] 1975
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3537/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 4 ''Mazar-I-Sharif and North-Central Afghanistan''] 1979
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3558/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 5 ''Kandahar and South-Central Afghanistan''] 1980
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3583/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 6 ''Kabul and Southeastern Afghanistan''] 1985
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofafghani00mall/page/n3/mode/2up ''History of Afghanistan : from the earliest period to the outbreak of the war of 1878''] by Colonel G B Malleson 1878. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/afghanistanafgha00bellrich ''Afghanistan and the Afghans: being a brief review of the history of the country, and account of its people, with a special reference to the present crisis and war with the Amir Sher Ali Khan''] by H W Bellew 1879 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77432/page/n11/mode/2up ''Afghanistan from Darius to Amanullah''] (catalogued ''Amasullah'') by Lt Gen. Sir George MacMunn 1929. Archive.org. Lacks map at end.
*''A History of Afghanistan'' by Brig-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940. [https://archive.org/details/historyofafghani031155mbp Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/historyofafghani031122mbp Volume II]. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/afghanistan00020unse_v8y6/page/n7/mode/2up ''Afghanistan : a study of political developments in Central and Southern Asia''] by W K Fraser-Tytler, formerly of the Indian Army and the External Affairs Department of the Government Of India. 1962 reprint of 2nd edition 1953, first published 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100084589627.0x00001c ''Afghanistan Affairs'', 1871] Qatar Digital Library. British Library IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 78-91, part of a larger document.
:[https://www.qdl.qa/en Search the Qatar Digital Library] for other items.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1879-policy-and-relations-of-the-british-government-toward-afghanistan-1872-to-1879-by-plowden-s-pdf/ ''Précis of the principal correspondence, &c., showing the policy and relations of the British Government toward Afghanistan, April 1872-May 1879''] Calcutta : Printed at the Foreign Dept. Press, 1879. Variant Title: ''Afghanistan précis, 1872-1879''. PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Afghanistan
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278725/mode/2up ''Afghanistan (1881) No.1. Further Correspondence Relating to the Affairs of Afghanistan including the recognition of Sirdar Abdul Rahman Khan as Amir of Kabul''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament. HMSO 1881 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206217/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Precis on Afghan Affairs from February 1919 to September 1927''] by R R Maconachie, Foreign and Political Department, Government of India. 1928. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208620/page/n5/mode/2up/ ''Precis on Afghan Affairs, Volume II: from the middle of 1927 to the end of 1936''] by ADF Dundas, Foreign and Political Department , Government of India. 1938. Archive.org
:Other official publications, not known to be available online: ''Memorandum on Afghanistan affairs. From AD 1700'' by J Talboys Wheeler, Assistant Secretary to Government of India, Foreign Department Calcutta: [Govt of India Foreign Dept] 1869. Available at the British Library IOR/L/PS/20/B10. ''Recent events in Afghanistan [1866-1868]. Continuation of Mr Wyllie's precis'' by H L Wynne, Under-Secretary to Government of India, Foreign Department [Simla: Govt of India Foreign Dept, 1868]. BL IOR/L/PS/20/B11. ''Precis on Afghan affairs'' by Lt-Col C J Windham Calcutta: Govt of India, 1914 [May 1879 to November 1893] BL IOR/L/PS/20/B258
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-1797686 "Papers Descriptive of the Countries on the North-West Frontier of India:-The Thurr, or Desert; Joodpoor and Jaysulmeer"] by Alex. Burnes, an article from ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London'', Volume 4. 1834. With maps. Archive.org
*''Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; also, Narrative of a voyage on the Indus, from the sea to Lahore, with presents from the king of Great Britain; performed under the orders of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833'' by Lieutenant Alexander Burnes 1834 [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha01burnuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha02burnuoft Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha03burnuoft Volume III] Archive.org
*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan'' by Lieut. Arthur Conolly 1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*''Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Panjab: including a Residence in Those Countries from 1826 to 1838'' by Charles Masson 1842 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KBAlciGlDMMC&pg=PR3 Volume1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KlJFAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 2], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lFJFAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 3]
:''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 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MtYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RNYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 2], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WNYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 3], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dNYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 Volume 4]
*[http://archive.org/stream/englandrussiafac00yate#page/n7/mode/2up ''England and Russia face to face in Asia: travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission''] by Lieutenant Arthur Campbell Yate, Bombay Staff Corps 1887 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/northernafghanis00yaterich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Northern Afghanistan or, Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission''] by Major Charles Edward Yate, Bombay Staff Corps 1888 Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-1-badakhshan-by-barrow-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 1 Badakhshan''] by Barrow (secret)
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-2-afghan-turkistan-by-barrow-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 2 Afghan Turkistan''] by Barrow (secret)
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-3-herat-by-barrow-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 3 Herat''] by Barrow (secret)
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-4-kabul-by-mason-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 4 Kabul''] by Mason (secret)
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1893-the-military-geography-of-afghanistan-part-5-farah-and-kandahar-by-elles-secret-s-pdf/ 1893 ''The Military Geography of Afghanistan Part 5 Farah and Kandahar''] by Elles (secret)
:Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28+The+Military+Geography+of+Afghanistan%29&sort=titleSorter Archive.org mirror versions, Parts 1-5]. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/lightsshadesofhi00gore ''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.
*[http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/afghanenglish/159/ ''Report on the proceedings of the Pamir Boundary Commission (1897)''] "Afghanistan: The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at the University of Nebraska-Omaha"
*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofin00wheeuoft/page/n5 ''A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma''] by J Talboys Wheeler 1899. Printed in London. Archive.org
:''India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma'' by J Talboys Wheeler 1899 Printed in New York. [https://archive.org/details/indiafrontiersta01whee/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/indiafrontiersta02whee/page/n8 Volume II]. Includes a supplementary chapter in Volume II, but otherwise the text is probably the same.
*[http://archive.org/stream/indianborderlan00holdgoog#page/n124/mode/2up "The Russo- Afghan Boundary Commission"], page 94 ''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel Sir T. Hungerford Holdich, late of the Indian Survey Department 1901 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/india01holdgoog ''India''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich 1904 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/politicalfrontie00holdiala ''Political Frontiers and Boundary Making''] by Col. Sir Thomas H Holdich 1916
:[https://archive.org/details/jstor-207410 "Between the Tigris and the Indus"] by Colonel Sir Thomas H Holdich ''The Geographical Review Volume IV September 1, 1917'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/lightsshadesofhi00gore britishdocuments04greabyu/page/512 "Chapter XXVIII - Afghanistan"] page 512, ''Lights & Shades of Hill Life in British documents on the Afghan and Hindu Highlands origins of the Punjabwar, 1898-1914, Volume IV: The Anglo-Russian Rapprochment, a Contrast1903-7''] edited by by F St J Gore 1895 G P Gooch and Harold Temperley 1929. Archive.org*[https://archive. With photographs org/details/russianrailwayst00bere "Russian Railways towards India"] by Colonel C E de la Poer Beresford ''Proceedings of the author. Part I Kulu. Part II KuramCentral Asian Society'' December 1905 Archive. org*''The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Afghanistan And Nepal'' 1908 is available to read online on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280280 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Contents: Afghanistan computer digital page 7, Nepal cp dp 10, Index cp dp 141. It is also available to [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernetpahar.in/handlewpfb-file/20151908-afghanistan-and-nepal-imperial-gazetteer-of-india-s-pdf-2/280280 Pdf download]. It is also available to download as a pdf ] from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]], located under both Books, Afghanistan, and Books, Nepal. Scroll down to 1908.*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/170320 ''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]. Pdf download[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170320 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India.*[httphttps://archive.org/details/dli.sercgranth.88498/page/ii/mode/2up ''Leaves from an Afghan Scrapbook: The Experiences of an English Official and his Wife in Kabul''] by Ernest and Annie Thornton 1910. Archive.iiscorg.ernet*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.in2883/page/handlen3/2015mode/175794 2up ''An American Engineer in Afghanistan from the Letters and Notes of A C Jewett''], edited by Marjorie Jewett Bell 1948. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. A C Jewett was chief engineer of the Amir from 1911 to 1919 in charge of installing a hydroelectric plant for Kabul.* ''Beyond Khyber Pass''] by Lowell Thomas. First published 1925. Full title: Some editions were titled ''Beyond Khyber Pass into Forbidden Afghanistan''. Pdf download [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175794 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas Lowell Thomas] (Wikipedia) American writer and broadcaster. *[https://archive.org/details/journalroyalartillery1926oct/page/413/mode/2up "Afghanistan" [A visit in 1925<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Major G M Routh page 414 ''The Journal of the Royal Artillery'' Volume 53, No.3 1926 October. Archive.org*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-pedalling-through-the-afghan-wilds-being-the-experiences-of-kj-kharas-s-pdf/ ''A History Pedalling Through The Afghan Wilds. Being the Experiences of K.J. Kharas, R.D. Ghandhi, and R.D. Shroff''] 1935. Link to a pdf download Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2612/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. :[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.2015.209132/page/n5/mode/2up ''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India'' ] by BrigGordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940 pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936.*''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. Published in the UK with title ''The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia''. “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/historyofafghani031155mbp Volume Itournamentofshad00meye ''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.*''The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire c. 1710-1780'' by Jos J. L. Gommans 1995. Link to a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1995-rise-of-the-indo-afghan-empire-c-1710-1780-by-gommans-s-pdf/ pdf download], PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download link does not display locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent /1995; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-2TH8UYeAaoC&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books *[https://archive.org/details/historyofafghani031122mbp Volume II afghanfrontierat0000scho ''Afghan Frontier : at the Crossroads of Conflict'']by Victoria Schofield 2010 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*View the [http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&uid=4345922024743697884 FIBIS Google Books Library] and click on the categories Afghanistan and Afghan Wars
*[http://www.tcoletribalrugs.com/article30PitOcts.html "Prayer Rugs of the Timuri and Their Neighbors"] by Robert Pittenger 1994 briefly mentions the Afghan Border Commission, including a section in the endnotes. "In 1884-85, the Afghan Border Commission was sent to the area north of Herat to delineate the Afghan-Russian border. The staff included a number of British officers, especially surveyors and intelligence officers"
*[http://www.wdl.org/en/search/?regions=central-and-south-asia&item_type=map&countries=AF Maps of Afghanistan] wdl.org
**[http://www.wdl.org/en/item/12993/#regions=central-and-south-asia&item_type=map&page=2 Map: Letts's Bird's Eye View of the Approaches to India [Afghanistan<nowiki>]</nowiki> catalogued c 1920]. Click on the map to enlarge. Although catalogued c 1920s, the scarlet uniforms of the soldiers suggest an earlier date, and elsewhere<ref>[https://blog.richmond.edu/livesofmaps/2018/03/11/lettss-birds-eye-view-of-the-approaches-to-india/ "Letts’s Bird’s Eye View of the Approaches to India"] by Anni Qu March 11, 2018. Mappenstance, University of Richmond.</ref> this map is dated 1900.==References==<references/>
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