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*[http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20627 Postcard to Germany from Ahmednagar POW camp 1919] stampcommunity.org. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131128053807/http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20627 archive.org] link)
*[http://www.gaebler.info/2014/07/tucher-3/ Ahmednagar] from ''German Missions in British India Nationalism: Case and Crisis in Missions'' by Paul von Tucher 1980. From the website "Gaebler info and Genealogy" section Indien
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313145717/http://gaebler.info/politik/indien-1.htm Reports of Germans about the time of the First World War in British India] Includes two reports concerning Ahmednager, and reports from missionaries in the camps. In German language, but use with [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20120313145717%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fgaebler.info%2Fpolitik%2Findien-1.htm&edit-text=&act=url Google translateTranslate English version], or Google Chrome provides an automatic translation. From the website "Gaebler info and Genealogy", section Indien.*[http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3072/ ''Prisoners of war and civilian internees captured by British and Dominion forces from the German colonies during the First World War''] by Mahon Murphy. A thesis submitted to the Department of International History of the London School of Economics for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, London, July 2014. The references to Indiaappear to be minor, but Ahmednagar is mentioned on pages 59 and 67, and Belgaum is also mentioned on page 59. There is a map, which includes camps in India and Ceylon, on page 7, with a description on page 9.
*Turkish POWs at [[Deolali]] are mentioned in [http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19] by Ruth Rae. Australian War Memorial website. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131020125644/https://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp archive.org] link)
**From notes in the Australian Archives regarding 34 Welsh General Hospital in Deolali : Sister Alma L. Bennett, Matron in 1917, said: ‘containing 3000 beds – 4 hrs train journey from Bombay'. ... Our cases were all from Mesopotamia – some direct – others individually coming from various Bombay Hospitals… We also had 200 Turkish Prisoners of War, almost all Surgical cases, some with shocking wounds – septic.’ Matron Gertrude Davis said: ‘When we became a P. of W. hospital our number of beds was increased to 700, 200 for British and 500 for prisoners as later we had the German prisoners from East Africa also an occasional one from Mespot’. <ref> Great War Forum [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112227&p=2022171 post] by 'KateH' dated 23 January 2014, part of a thread 'Concentration Camp Deolali'</ref>
