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**[https://archive.org/details/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore ''Volume IV 1830 to 1843 George Everest'' [Surveyor General and Superintendent<nowiki>]</nowiki>] published 1958 Archive.org
***[https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n11/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n463/mode/2up Biographical Notes] page 415, [https://archive.org/stream/HistoricalRecordsOfSurveyOfIndiaVol4ByPhillimore/Historical%20Records%20of%20Survey%20of%20India%20Vol%204%20by%20Phillimore#page/n529/mode/2up Index] page 477
**''Volume V 1844-1861'', published 1968, (first published 1964) may be downloaded as a pdf from [http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/rarebooks/ Digital Himalaya at University of Cambridge, UK],(scroll down) (as may earlier volumes) (large files up to 47 MB). Also available as a pdf download [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1968-historical-records-of-survey-of-india-vol-5-by-phillimore-s-pdf/PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display locate under Books/Survey Of India/RH Phillimore and the Historical Records. <br>Volume V was withdrawn by the Indian Government soon after it was published, because of political reasons<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141130063031/http://www.abebooks.co.uk/HISTORICAL-RECORDS-SURVEY-INDIA-Volumes-Phillimore/5703551383/bd abebooks.co.uk, now an archived webpage.]</ref> [strategic sensitivity of some of the subject matter], so it is not widely available.
*[https://archive.org/details/GeographicalSurveyingInIndia "Geographical Surveying In India"] by Colonel Sir T H Holdich 1898 Paper XI,'' Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Occassional Papers Volume XX˜IV 1898'' pages 289-305 Archive.org
*''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel Sir T Hungerford Holdich [https://archive.org/details/indianborderlan00holdgoog 1901 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indianborderland00holduoft Second and cheaper edition 1909] Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1988-the-pundits-british-exploration-of-tibet-and-central-asia-by-waller-s-pdf/ ''The Pundits : British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia''] by Derek Waller catalogued 1988, other indications are 1990. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download button does not display, locate under Books/Tibet.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1990-thomas-montgomerie-and-the-trans-himalayan-explorers-of-the-survey-of-india-by-waller-s-pdf/ 1990 ''Thomas Montgomerie and the Trans-Himalayan Explorers of the Survey of India''] by Waller. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download button does not display, locate under Books/Survey of India/(end section). Possibly 1983 article ''Annals Assoc.Asian Stud. Southeast Conf''. 5: 27-35.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SZD9--xYamkC&pg=PA278 Page 278] ''Britain and Tibet 1765-1947: A Select Annotated Bibliography of British Relations with Tibet and the Himalayan States Including Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan'' by Julie G. Marshall, Alastair Lamb 2005</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/greatarcdramatic00keay/mode/2up ''The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest Named''] by John Keay 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/2000-the-great-arc-how-india-was-mapped-and-everest-named-by-keay-s-pdf/ pdf download], PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download button does not display, the file should be able to be located under Books, however category could not be determined.
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