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*"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+British+Agency+Baghdad+1890s&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj2sXzwFwN4gOHMx5z5ibUCaO5oC4NoPg0MPdQipi8Jg4_iqHfzFqctlZE-sMa6pC9UXe5StHHavd2BZdWN_49UADUt-8fRqvB5mBzZJBZov7QLhW5vn2FOWI_TIEIYNbUodDXR&sig=AHIEtbSejff11oEcC0XAzsRkhzsli2P_Hw html version], [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/downloads/Onley_Raj_Reconsidered.pdf original pdf]
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=EtyOMcKnPdUC&pg=PA118 link] is 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> [http://books.google.com/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</ref>
*"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://www.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/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159542701 link] (Sothebys) gives details of the papers 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 [http://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/titledetails.asp?tid=62 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. It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Available at the [[British Library]]
