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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024089744 ''My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills''] by Major General Sir James Johnstone 1896 Archive.org. The account concerns the period 1873 to the operations in 1885-1886, at the time of the [[3rd Burma War]], when he retired with nearly 28 years’ service in India. Mainly he seems to have worked as a Political Agent, or similar.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofanafri005386mbp/page/n5 ''Memories Of An African Hunter With A Chapter On Eastern India''] by Denis D Lyell 1923 Archive.org. Missing pages 1-13. He went to a tea garden in 1894, and worked in various locations until c 1899.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indias-north-east-frontier-in-the-19th-century-by-elwin-s-pdf/ ''India’s North-East Frontier In the 19th Century''] by Verrier Elwin 1959. Pdf download from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1959.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/wildsportsofburm00pollrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Wild sports of Burma and Assam''] By Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/indianhomememori00cottuoft ''Indian & Home Memories''] by Sir Henry Cotton 1910. Archive.org. He spent 35 years in the Indian Civil Service - he arrived in Calcutta in 1867 and resigned in 1902. He became Chief Commissioner for Assam in 1896 (page 226) and experienced the 1897 earthquake (page 228).
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofupperas00shak#page/n7/mode/2up ''History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier''] by Leslie Waterfield Shakespear 1914 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map]. The journey took place in 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24087/page/n5 ''The North-East Frontier of India 1865-1914''] by D P Choudhury 1978 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/404/mode/2up ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce and industrial resources''] by Somerset Playne and J W Bond, edited by Arnold Wright, 1917 Archive.org has a chapter on "The Province of Assam".
* ''History of Services of Gazetted and Other Officers Serving under the Government of Assam 1921'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82581 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofthefron035444mbp ''History of the Frontier Areas Bordering on Assam: from 1883-1941''] by Sir Robert Reid 1942. Archive.org.
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. It is also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1945-forgotten-frontier-by-tyson-s-pdf/ pdf download] from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
*''Tour diary of Captain A. E. G. Davy, Additional Political Officer, Balipara Frontier Tract, December 1st 1944 to March 30th 1945, in connection with exploration and political work in the Dafla Hills''. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/19591945-indiastour-northdiary-eastof-captain-a-e-g-davy-balipara-frontier-intract-dec-1-1944-theto-19thmar-century30-by1945-elwinfrom-smicrofiche-pdf/ Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset version], pdf download - if download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1945. [http://abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1433977 Abhilekh-patal.in version]. *[http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOADI10470/00001 ''India’s NorthTour diaries of the Special Officer Subansiri, 1944-East Frontier In the 19th Century45''] by Verrier Elwin 1959Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf 1947 Calcutta. SOAS University of London Digital. Pdf download [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1946-tour-diaries-of-special-officer-subansiri-1944-46-by-von-furer-haimendorf-from -microfiche-pdf/ Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Datasetversion], catalogued 1944-46.
* Industry and Industrial Arts series of Monographs. Pdf downloads, Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21540 ''Monograph on the Cotton Fabrics of Assam''] by H F Samman 1897. Also available as a pdf or torrent download [https://archive.org/details/CottonFabricsOfAssam Archive.org].
