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*''Assam District Gazetteers''. Published 1905-1928, Volumes 1-10 by B.C. Allen, 1905-06; Volume 11 written anonymously, 1928. Supplementary volumes published c 1915.
:There is a download available as a pdf file from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset as [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1905-assam-district-gazetteers-vols-1-to-10-by-allen-s-pdf/ ''1905 Assam District Gazetteers Vols 1 To 10'']
:The following are mainly pdf downloads, originally from Digital Library of India, which may have with mirror editions on Archive.org: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463827 ''Cachar Vol. 1''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463827 Archive.org] 1905; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/17352 ''Sylhet Vol. 2''] 1905, [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.463814 Archive.in/handle/2015/463803 org], later reprint edition, ''Sylhet Supplement''] 1915; [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.463803 Archive.in/handle/2015/55772 org] 1915; ''Supplement to Goalpara''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55772 Archive.org] 1914; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463813 ''Kamrup Vol. 4''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463813 Archive.org] 1905; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463808 ''Darrang Vol. 5''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463808 Archive.org] 1905, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463805 ''Darrang Supplement''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463805 Archive.org] 1915; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210366 ''Nowgong Vol. 6''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210366 Archive.org] 1903; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206853 ''Sibsagar Vol. 7''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206853 Archive.org] 1906, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/55771 ''Sibsagar Supplement''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55771 Archive.org] 1915; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206852 ''Lakhimpur Vol. 8''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206852 Archive.org] 1905, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463809 ''Lakhimpur Supplement''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463809 Archive.org] 1916; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463818 ''Naga Hills And Manipur Vol. 9''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463818 Archive.org] 1905; [https://archive.org/details/assamdistrictga00allegoog ''The Khasi and Jaintia Hills, the Garo Hills and the Lushai Hills Vol.10''] 1906 Archive.org., [http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_item.a4d?catId=183535;r=8723 ''Volume10 Supplement''] 1915. British Library EAP file (Tiff images, may require a plug-in); [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/463820 ''Vol.11''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463820 Archive.org] The Sadiya and Balipara Frontier Tract ? 1928. *[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/281526 ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series: Eastern Bengal and Assam''] 1908. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281526 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. .
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149013/page/n3 ''The Eastern Frontier Of British India 1784-1826''] by Anil Chandra Banerjee 2nd edition revised and enlarged 1946 (first published 1943) Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=9YVCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Memoir of the late David Scott, Esq. Agent to the Governor General, on the North- East Frontier of Bengal, and Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit in Assam''] 1832 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistoryassam00gaitgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''A History of Assam''] by Sir Edward Albert Gait 1906 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/n9/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India: Volume 4 North and North-Eastern Frontier tribes''] by Intelligence Branch Army Headquarters India 1907 Archive.org
**''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India: [Volume 7]'' [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1913-official-account-of-the-abor-expedition-1911-12-s-pdf/ ''Official Account of the Abor Expedition, 1911-1912''] by General Staff, India published 1913, is available to download as a pdf file from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]]. It is also available in a reprint edition as a [httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/500051 pdf downloadArchive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India], .*[https://archive.org/details/lifeinindianoutp00cassiala/page/n9 ''Life inan Indian Outpost''] [Buxa Duar, North East India] by Major Gordon Casserly, Indian Army, first published c 1910.ernet.dli.2015.500051 Archive.org version].
*''Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual'' 1911 Archive.org
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass03eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 3 Reserve, Ordnance, Clothing, Guards and Escorts'']
*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map]. The journey took place in 1914.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/404/mode/2up ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce and industrial resources''] by Somerset Playne and J W Bond, edited by Arnold Wright, 1917 Archive.org has a chapter on "The Province of Assam".
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/82581 ''History of Services of Gazetted and Other Officers Serving under the Government of Assam 1921''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82581 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52854 ''The Romance of the Indian Frontiers''] by Lt-Gen Sir George MacMunn, Colonel-Commandant Royal Artillery 1931 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofthefron035444mbp ''History of the Frontier Areas Bordering on Assam: from 1883-1941''] by Sir Robert Reid 1942. Archive.org.
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129 pdf download, Digital Library of India], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. It is also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1945-forgotten-frontier-by-tyson-s-pdf/ pdf download] from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indias-north-east-frontier-in-the-19th-century-by-elwin-s-pdf/ ''India’s North-East Frontier In the 19th Century''] by Verrier Elwin 1959. Pdf download from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
* Industry and Industrial Arts series of Monographs. Pdf downloads, Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/18561 ''Monograph on the Iron and Steel Work [of Eastern Bengal and Assam<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']. 1907.
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n5 ''Pflanzerleben in Indien kulturgeschichtliche bilder aus Assám''] by Oscar Flex 1873 Archive.org. German language. [http://www.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de/index.php/artikel/1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Extract from the book] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. German language. ([https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n71 page 63]), [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de%2Findex.php%2Fartikel%2F1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Google Translate English version of the extract] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. Article with details of the book [https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/an-european-s-account-of-assam/cid/443929 "An European's account of Assam"] by Arup Kumar Dutta 5.03.12 ''The Telegraph (India)''.
*Fiction **[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40751 ''The Old Man of the Mountain''] by Herbert Strang 1916 Gutenberg.org. Partially set in Assam, in the region around [[Dibrugarh]], and an unexplored region of northern India or perhaps part of China. An adventure story for younger readers.**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14076 ''The Elephant God''] by Gordon Casserly 1921 Gutenberg.org.*:[https://archive.org/details/junglegirl00cass_0/page/n5 ''The Jungle Girl''] by Gordon Casserly 1922 Archive.org
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