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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq Iraq] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Mesopotamia British Mandate of Mesopotamia] 1920-1932 Wikipedia
*"The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley ''Asian Affairs Volume XL, no. I'', March 2009 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:0gD5Jm4dgMsJ:socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf+ Pdf]. :Onley wrote the book ''The Arabian frontier of the British Raj: merchants, rulers, and the British+Agency+Baghdad+1890s&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj2sXzwFwN4gOHMx5z5ibUCaO5oC4NoPg0MPdQipi8Jg4_iqHfzFqctlZEin the nineteenth-sMa6pC9UXe5StHHavd2BZdWN_49UADUt-8fRqvB5mBzZJBZov7QLhW5vn2FOWI_TIEIYNbUodDXR&sig=AHIEtbSejff11oEcC0XAzsRkhzsli2P_Hw html version], century Gulf'' by James Onley 2007 [httphttps://socialsciencesbooks.exetergoogle.accom.ukau/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf original pdfbooks?id=8qISDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages]*This Google Books including [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=EtyOMcKnPdUC8qISDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 linkpage 118] is showing in a table which shows the Persian Gulf Division of the Bombay Postal Circle (Bombay GPO) and the Sindh Postal Circle (Karachi GPO), in Basrah and Baghdad <ref> . *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://bookswww.sis.googleorg.comuk/bulletin/books?id=EtyOMcKnPdUC&pg=PR9 ''The Arabian frontier of the British Raj: merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf''], page 118 by James Onley 2007 Google Books<92/ref>*Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell" ] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society No. 92 (2007''), pages 17-18. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Cf2W-vME38AJ:www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf+British+Raj+Telegraph+Baghdad&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShGH8XAHtbY8D0csv7zFY5xPGhGTwFY9zHWU_E2naeRgl8WfV2OKVL8ea4XonbuVzCiGvUz6yvZdrUM_yuw1TZLaoGycOJlai7bnhKy0K9K_oX84t-rF1tw8VjcrX0qGD6xbxQ1&sig=AHIEtbQp2F9jb0L6nPbTQs2Tlyi46CFweA html version],[http://wwwnow archived.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf original pdf]
:Briefly mentions the Indo-European Telegraph Department connecting India with Baghdad, in the early 1860’s, the route being Karachi, Gwadur (Baluchistan), Fao (now Fawr, Iraq), Basra, Baghdad, (then part of greater Turkey), and from there to Europe.
*This [http://www.sothebys.com/appen/liveauctions/ecatalogue/2009/english-literature-history-children39s-books-illustrations-l09773/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159542701 6.html link] (Sothebys) gives details of the papers and career of Sir Harford Jones. At the age of 19, Jones was posted to Basra in the service of the East India Company, to be assistant factor. He remained in the post for a decade (1783-1794). He was Resident in Baghdad from 1798 to 1804.*This [httphttps://wwwbooks.archiveeditionsgoogle.cocom.ukau/books/about/titledetailsMemoirs_of_Baghdad_Kurdistan_and_Turkish.asphtml?tidid=62 d4hfAAAACAAJ link] gives details of the book ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857'' by J. F Jones , Indian Navy, a 1998 facsimile re-publication ,one of the volumes in a series of Bombay Government Records, no. XLIII, new series published 1857. It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011403809
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/iraq.htm Iraq] Britishempire.co.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010170201/http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Iraq/iraq_041115_britsinmesopotamia.htm The British in Mesopotamia] stanford.edu, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121101232233/http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Old_Iraq Old Magazine Articles: Iraq 1920s] oldmagazinearticles.com, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160625115053/http://www.casahistoria.net/iraq.htm The British in Mesopotamia/Iraq] casahistoria.net, now archived.*[httphttps://www.timesonlineweb.coarchive.uk/tolorg/newsweb/world20120508134151/article1114071.ece "Tea and travellers - Baghdad's lost British past Recalling the heyday of the British Embassy"] The Times February 28, 2003*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/22/worlddispatch.iraq "Echoes of the Past", a Baghdad graveyard] Guardian.co.uk 22 June 2004, now archived.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://www.mespot.co.uk / Grandpa’s Journal] , now archived. Harry James Goulter Pearman was with the Army Audit Staff in Mesopotamia. A sample page, now archived, is headed [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042646/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.12.18.shtml Sunday 18 December 1921]:Most of the diary entries are for 1921. (Note: It is difficult to navigate this site for some/all browsersto navigate this website, see hints below if you want to read additional entries. <ref>The dates of the entries of the diary are in the top LH corner of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://mespot.co.uk/ Home webpage] now archived, from 21 December 1920 to 1 February 1922. The links for Before being archived, the entries from the journal are were in the format <nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/ab.cd.ef.shtml</nowiki> , where, for a particular entry, ab is the year, cd is the month, ef is the first mentioned day in the month (all two digits)). A sample page typical example is [<nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.1204.18.shtml Sunday 18 December </nowiki> , and most entries are similarly from 1921. Construct your own URL, using the relevant date, then use "Browse History" in the [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Internet Archive Wayback Machine] to obtain the archived URL. Alternatively using the Internet Archive (archive.org) link [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mespot.co.uk/* mespot.co.uk]scroll down to entries containing the word journal, and then click on the link. However, these links are not all in date order.</ref>
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77433 ''Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist''] by Friedrich Rosen, 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. The author was born 1856. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rosen Friedrich Rosen] Wikipedia.
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