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:[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/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.
*[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/accountofkoonawu00gera ''Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya''] [1817-1818] by Captain Alexander Gerard 1841 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/avariedlifearec00gordgoog ''A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902''] by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. Appointed to the Indian Army Indian Staff Corps 1862, appointed to the Kashgar Mission in 1873.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023493517 ''The Roof of the World : being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir''] by Lieutenant-Colonel T E Gordon, Honorary Aide-De-Camp to the Viceroy of India, lately attached to the Special Mission to Kashghar 1876 Archive.org. Includes Kashghar.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiertraveller00gardiala ''Soldier and traveller; memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh''] [1785-1877] edited by Major Hugh Pearse 1898 Archive.org. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191201171837/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/the-fantastic-adventures-of-the-tartan-turbaned-colonel/# "The fantastic adventures of the tartan-turbaned colonel"] by William Dalrymple 13 May 2017 ''The Spectator'', archived.
*''Routes in Asia''. Variant Title: ''Routes in Central Asia''. Calcutta : Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1877-1878. "Compiled under the direction of Major General Fred. S. Roberts, C.B., V.C., Quarter Master General in India ...". [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=chlg4U-SaQ4C&pg=PP7 ''Section 5. Routes in the territories of the Maharaja of Jummoo and Kashmir, and adjacent countries''] compiled ... by M.H. Saward, Royal Horse Artillery. Google Books
*''Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal'' by Sir Richard Temple 1887 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088752621?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/journalskeptinh01tempgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/highlandsindia00newagoog ''The Highlands of India, Volume II, being a Chronicle of Field Sports and Travel in India''] by Major General D J F Newall R A (Bengal Retired) 1887 Archive.org
*''Hindu-Koh: wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas'' by Major General Donald Macintyre, VC, late Prince of Wales Own Goorkhas [https://archive.org/details/hindukohwanderin00macirich 1889 edition], [https://archive.org/details/hindukohwanderin00maciuoft 1891 edition] Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1892-a-first-bear-shoot-in-kashmir-being-a-guide-for-would-be-sportsmen-by-burrard-s-pdf/ ''A First Bear-Shoot in Kashmir being a guide for would-be sportsmen''] by W Dutton Burrard 1892, published Allahabad. Pdf download PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1239 Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/wherethreeempire00knig_0 ''Where three empires meet : a narrative of recent travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the adjoining countries''] by E F Knight. New Edition 1894 (first published March 1893) Archive.org.
**With a [https://archive.org/stream/wherethreeempire00knig_0#page/n21/mode/1up Map]
*[https://archive.org/details/SportInLadakh/page/n2 ''Sport in Ladakh. Five letters from “The Field”''] by F. E. S. A. [Sir Frederick Edward Shafto Adair] ; illustrated from photographs by R. S. A. 1895 Archive.org. Originally appeared in ''The Field'' newspaper.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023017738 ''A Summer in High Asia, being a record of sport and travel in Baltisan and Ladakh''] by Capt F E S Adair, late Rifle Brigade 1899. [https://archive.org/details/biggameofbaltist00adairich/page/n19 2nd file] images may be marginally better. Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005A720#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=6&z=-569.625%2C0%2C2777.25%2C2737 ''Routes in Jammu and Kashmir arranged topographically with description of routes; distances by stages; and information as to supplies and transport''] by Major-General Le Marquis De Bourbel, R E Retired, late Chief Engineer of the Jammu and Kashmir State 1897. British Library Digital file. Pages may be rotated if required. There is an alternative version available on [https://archive.org/details/routesinjammukas00deborich Archive.org], but note it is may be difficult to readon a fixed computer screen, as most of the pages are printed "sideways". For readers in some areas such as North America, the [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008299734 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library version] has a page rotation facility.
*[https://archive.org/details/sportinhighlands00darrrich ''Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of an eight months' trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a lady's experiences in the latter country; together with hints for the guidance of sportsmen''] by Henry Zouch Darrah, Indian Civil Service 1898 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/onedgeofworld00candrich ''On the Edge of the World''] by Edmund Candler 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/charmofkashmir00oconuoft ''The Charm of Kashmir''] by V. C. Scott O'Connor (Vincent Clarence) 1920 Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1921-camera-shikar-and-guide-for-visitors-to-kashmir-by-brown-s-pdf/ ''Camera Shikar and Guide for Visitors to Kashmir''] by Brown. 1921. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2122/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Full title: ''Camera Shikar and Guide for Visitors to Kashmir : being the wanderings of an artist with camera, brush and pen through the Happy Valley and its mountains'' compiled from the diaries of Browyne Longnose-Brown and some entries by his companion Mac.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag211edinuoft#page/318/mode/2up "A Shooting Trip in Chamba"] by F L Farrer page 318 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 211 January-June 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/kashmirinsunligh00tynd_0 ''Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade : a description of the beauties of the country, the life, habits, and humour of its inhabitants and an account of the gradual but steady rebuilding of a once down-trodden people''] by C E Tyndale-Biscoe, of the Church Missionary Society High School in Srinagar. 1922 Archive.org.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1922-routes-in-western-himalaya-kashmir-c-vol-1-punch-kashmir-ladakh-by-mason-s-pdf/ ''Routes in Western-Himalaya Kashmir &c Volume 1 Punch, Kashmir, Ladakh''] by Kenneth Mason. [''Púnch, Kashmír & Ladákh'']. Published under the direction of the Surveyor General of India, 1922 and printed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, Dehra Dun. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1929-routes-in-western-himalaya-kashmir-etc-vol-1-by-mason-s-pdf/ 2nd edition 1929, Revised and corrected]. Pdf downloads, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2190/page/n1/mode/2up 1922 Archive.org mirror version], [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2402/mode/2up 1929, Second edition], Archive.org mirror version.
*''Beyond Leh: A Shooting Trip in Ladakh, 1926'' by K. W. Dickson, wife of R, a Medical Officer. ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps''
:[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/5/377.full.pdf Part 1] 1933;60:5 377-392. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/6/456.full.pdf Part 2] 1933;60:6 456-461. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/1/61.full.pdf Part 3] 1933;61:1 61-70. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/2/133.full.pdf Part 4] 1933;61:2 133-144. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/4/304.full.pdf Part 5] 1933;61:4 304-309. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/5/379.full.pdf Part 6] 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7: not online. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/2/142.full.pdf Part 8] 1934;62:2 142-150. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/3/224.full.pdf Part 9] 1934;62:3 224-233. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/5/365.full.pdf Part 10] 1934;62:5 365-376. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/6/430.full.pdf Part 11] 1934;62:6 430-440. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/2/127.full.pdf Part 12] 1934;63:2 127-134. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/193.full.pdf Part 13] 1934;63:3 193-206.
:Also see [[Norperforce]] for more about the Kashgar Mission during WW1 prior to 1922.
:[https://archive.org/details/antiqueland00ship ''The Antique Land''] by Diana Shipton 1950. Archive.org Lending Library. A memoir by the wife of Eric Shipton, the last British consul in Kashgar before the consulate closed in 1947.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209132/page/n5/mode/2up ''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India''] by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2641 Archive.org mirror version].*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3164 Archive.org mirror version]. Morris was an officer with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles from 1918 until 1934. Includes chapters when he was transport officer for the 1922 Mount Everest Expedition (page 134 onwards) and in 1927 he trekked in Chinese Turkestan (page 225 onwards).
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/2004-kashmir-and-the-british-raj-1847-1947-by-huttenback-s-pdf/ ''Kashmir and the British Raj 1847-1947''] by Robert A Huttenback 2004. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1961-historical-genesis-of-indias-northern-frontier-problem-by-huttenback-s-pdf/ ''Historical Genesis of India’s Northern Frontier Problem''] by Robert A Huttenback 1961. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent or [http://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=20138 Direct link]. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3182/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Paper presented before the South Asia Colloquium, April 27, 1961.
*[https://archive.org/details/MallinsonRecipes ''Recipes''] by The Mallinson Girls’ School , Srinagar. unknown date, but probably after 1961. Archive.org. This school was established in 1912 as the Girls' Mission High School and was later named after the Church Missionary Society Missionary, Miss Muriel Pauline Mallinson, probably after she retired c 1961. The School is now part of the Tyndale-Biscoe & Mallinson Schools, Srinagar.
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