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*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofanafri005386mbp/page/n5 ''Memories Of An African Hunter With A Chapter On Eastern India''] by Denis D Lyell 1923 Archive.org. Missing pages 1-13. He went to a tea garden in 1894, and worked in various locations until c 1899.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromtonkintoindi00orle/page/n7 ''From Tonkin to India by the sources of the Irawadi, January '95-January '96''] by Prince Henri D’Orleans, translated by Hamley Bent. Illustrated by G Vuillier 1898. [https://archive.org/details/fromtonkintoindi00orle/page/n16 Map] Includes Upper Burma and Assam. Archive.org
*[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''] edited by Verrier Elwin 1959. Pdf download from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1959. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3145/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/indiasnortheastf0000elwi/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library]. Chapters by many different authors from the 19th century.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/wildsportsofburm00pollrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Wild sports of Burma and Assam''] By Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/indianhomememori00cottuoft ''Indian & Home Memories''] by Sir Henry Cotton 1910. Archive.org. He spent 35 years in the Indian Civil Service - he arrived in Calcutta in 1867 and resigned in 1902. He became Chief Commissioner for Assam in 1896 (page 226) and experienced the 1897 earthquake (page 228).
*[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".
* ''History of Services of Gazetted and Other Officers Serving under the Government of Assam 1921'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82581 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2253/mode/2up ''Sport and Service in Assam, and Elsewhere''] by Lt.-Col Alban Wilson, late 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles. 1924. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Some of the contents first appeared in the ''Fishing Gazette'' and Indian papers such as the ''Pioneer''. Covers the period from c 1890.
*[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.
*''Tour diary of Captain A. E. G. Davy, Additional Political Officer, Balipara Frontier Tract, December 1st 1944 to March 30th 1945, in connection with exploration and political work in the Dafla Hills''. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1945-tour-diary-of-captain-a-e-g-davy-balipara-frontier-tract-dec-1-1944-to-mar-30-1945-from-microfiche-pdf/ Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset version], pdf download - if download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1945. [http://abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1433977 Abhilekh-patal.in version].
*[http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOADI10470/00001 ''Tour diaries of the Special Officer Subansiri, 1944-45''] by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf 1947 Calcutta. SOAS University of London Digital. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1946-tour-diaries-of-special-officer-subansiri-1944-46-by-von-furer-haimendorf-from-microfiche-pdf/ Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset version], catalogued 1944-46, [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2861/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3375 ''Assam Shikari. A tea planter's story of hunting and high adventure in the jungles of North East India''] by Frank Nicholls 1970. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Nicholls (born 1889) went to India 1911 as an assistant manager to a tea estate in Assam. He retired 1952, and remained in Assam until 1963.
*[https://archive.org/details/enchantedfrontie0000rust/page/n7 ''Enchanted Frontiers: Sikkim, Bhutan, and India's Northeastern Borderlands''] by Nari Rustomji 1971. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1971-enchanted-frontiers-sikkim-bhutan-and-indias-north-eastern-borderlands-by-rustomji-s-pdf/ PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD)](link to a pdf download). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1971. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3398/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. An Indian born c 1918, he was educated in England, and returned, appointed to the ICS, in 1942.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1983-imperilled-frontiers-indias-north-eastern-borderlands-by-rustomji-s-pdf/ ''Imperilled Frontiers–India’s North-Eastern Borderlands''] by Nari Rustomji 1983. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1983.
