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*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway'']. File created 8 May 1922. British Library: India Office Records IOR/L/PS/18/C208, in Qatar Digital Library . It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208590 ''Old Routes Of Western Iran''] by Sir Aurel Stein 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/br00itishacademytrbritrich ''The British Academy transliteration of Arabic and Persian. Report of the Committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to the languages of the Nearer East''] 1917 Archive.org
