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* ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series: Kashmir and Jammu'' 1908. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207011 Archive.org version] mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookpanjbwe01eastgoog#page/n6/mode/1up ''Handbook of the Panjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper Sindh''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1883 Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1876-kashmir-hand-book-a-guide-for-visitors-by-ince-s-pdf/ ''The Kashmir Handbook: a guide for visitors''] by John Ince , 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1876. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0833/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
:*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1876-map-of-vale-of-kashmir-to-accompany-dr-inces-hand-book-of-kashmir-jpg/ 1876 Map of Vale of Kashmir to accompany Dr. Ince’s ''Hand Book of Kashmir'']. Download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:[http://books.northwestern.edu/viewer.html?id=inu:inu-mntb-0006016994-bk ''Kashmir and Jammu: A Guide for Visitors''] by Joshua Duke, late Resident Surgeon in Kashmir. Thacker, Spink 1903. There was a later edition 1910. Cover title: ''Kashmir Handbook''. Northwestern University Libraries Digitized Books [USA]. [https://search.library.northwestern.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01NWU_ALMA51601520160002441&context=L&vid=NULVNEW&search_scope=NWU&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US Catalogue entry]. It is stated that it is practically a new book although based on Ince’s work (editions at the end of the 1860s, 1876 and 1888. Titles are ''The Káshmir Handbook: a guide for visitors'' by John Ince 1867, 1872, 1876; ''Ince's Kashmir Handbook : a guide for visitors'', rewritten and much enlarged by Joshua Duke 1888).[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100328869 1910 edition] HathiTrust Digital Library, available only to North American etc viewers.*[https://archive.org/details/guideforvisitors00colluoft ''A Guide for visitors to Kashmir by John Collett. Enlarged, revised and corrected up to date''] by A. Mitra, Chief Medical Officer, Kashmir 1898. Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003503A British Library Digital]. Previously published as Collett, John, ''A Guide for Visitors to Kashmir'', 1884
*''The Tourist's Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Skardo, &c.'' Edited by Arthur Neve. Originally published c 1890.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1918-tourists-guide-to-kashmir-ladakh-and-khardo-by-neve-s-pdf/ 1918]; [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1927-tourists-guide-to-kashmir-ladakh-skardo-14th-ed-by-neve-s-pdf/ 1927, 14th edition]. Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2074 1918 11th edition Archive.org version], mirror from Pahar; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.112435 1927 14th edition Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283816 1933 15th edition Archive.org version] revised by E F Neve, mirrors from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280272/page/n1/mode/2up ''Handbook for Visitors to Kashmir''] by J L K Jalali 1933. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-a-i-s-a-kashmir-guide-by-kotak-s-pdf/ ''A.I.S.A. Kashmir Guide''] [All India Spinners' Association] catalogued 1935 by M H Kotak. Pdf download, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2590 Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/provincialgeogra01holluoft ''The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir''] by Sir James Douie 1916 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India ''
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofnatu00adam/page/n7/mode/2up ''Wanderings of a Naturalist in India : the Western Himalayas, and Cashmere''] by Andrew Leith Adams, Surgeon 22nd Regiment. 1867. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/medicalmissionsa00elms/page/n5 ''Medical Missions : as illustrated by some letters and notices of the late Dr. Elmslie.''] Printed for the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society 1874. Archive.org. Dr. Elmslie (William Jackson) arrived in Srinagar in 1865 to work for the Kashmir Medical Mission, and died in 1871.
*1987 reprint edition titled [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.a0009787946?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Sikkim. With hints on mountain and jungle warfare. Exhibiting also the facilities for opening commercial relations through the state of Sikhim with Central Asia, Thibet, and western China''] by Colonel J. C. Gawler originally published 1873 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available as a pdf download of the original edition titled ''Sikhim...'' [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1873-sikhim-with-hints-on-mountain-and-jungle-warfare-by-gawler-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset], [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0761 Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/visitstohightart00shaw_0 ''Visits To High Tartary, Yarkand, And Kashghar (formerly Chinese Tartary), and Return Journey Over the Karakoram Pass''] by Robert Shaw 1871 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/kashmirkashgharn00bellrich ''Kashmir and Kashghar. A narrative of the journey of the embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74''] by H W Bellew, Surgeon-Major, Bengal Staff Corps 1875 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5334/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Trip to Kashmir''] by James Arbuthnot 1900. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/innermostasiatra00cobbiala ''Innermost Asia : travel & sport in the Pamirs''] by Ralph P Cobbold (late 60th Rifles) 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b29351960/page/n3/mode/2up ''Picturesque Kashmir''] by Arthur Neve, illustrated by Geoffrey W Millais 1900 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/b29351443/page/n9/mode/2up ''Thirty years in Kashmir''] by Arthur Neve, Church Missionary Society 1913. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/irenepetriemissi00unse/page/n7 ''Irene Petrie, Missionary to Kashmir''] by Mrs Ashley Carus-Wilson 1901 Archive.org. Irene Petrie, 1864-1897, was with the Church Missionary Society.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022906311/page/n9/mode/2up ''Robert Clark of the Panjab : pioneer and missionary statesman''] by Henry Martyn Clark 1907 Archive.org. Includes chapters on the Cashmere Mission. Born 1825, Robert Clark joined the Church Missionary Society and was sent to India where he arrived in 1852 and was posted to [[Amritsar]]. He partially retired in 1898, completely in 1900, but died soon after.
*[http://archive.org/stream/romanticeastburm00delmrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir''] by Walter Del Mar 1906 "Containing sixty-four full page illustrations from photographs" Archive.org
*[https://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/8/3/308.full.pdf "Two Months in Kashmir"] by Captain T H Stevenson, Royal Army Medical Corps, page 308 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps March 1907''. jramc.bmj.com. Hunting.
*[https://archive.org/details/aholidayinhappy00swingoog/page/n8/mode/2up ''A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil''] by T. R. Swinburne 1907 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] by Major R L Kennion 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh until 1907.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/kashmiryounghusb00youniala#page/n9/mode/2up ''Kashmir''] described by [[Francis Younghusband|Sir Francis Younghusband KCIE]] and painted by Major E Molyneux. DSO. 1911 Archive.org
