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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 HathiTrust Digital Library.
:''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] HathiTrust Digital Library [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285074 Pdf download] Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285074 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408323?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] HathiTrust Digital Library, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/40188 Pdf download] Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40188 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India.
*''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://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. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/38715 Pdf download] 1888, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38715 Archive.org mirror version]1888, originally from the Digital Library of India.
*[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
:Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. 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.
*[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/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 ''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://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/280280 ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Afghanistan And Nepal''] 1908 Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280280 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India. Contents: Afghanistan computer digital page 7, Nepal cp dp 10, Index cp dp 141. It is also available to [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1908-afghanistan-and-nepal-imperial-gazetteer-of-india-s-pdf-2/ download as a pdf] from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.*[http://www.new.dli.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, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170320 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/russianrailwayst00bere "Russian Railways towards India"] by Colonel C E de la Poer Beresford ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' December 1905 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175794 ''Beyond Khyber Pass''] by Lowell Thomas. First published 1925. Some editions were titled ''Beyond Khyber Pass into Forbidden Afghanistan''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [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.
*''A History Of Afghanistan'' by Brig-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/historyofafghani031155mbp Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/historyofafghani031122mbp Volume II ]
*[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.
