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Authors: William Dalrymple
NAM 1968–07–207–1 Milne Diary
NAM 6308–44–30 Outram Papers
NAM 7604/9 Pennycuik Papers
NAM 7101–24–3 Roberts Letters
NAM 9109–45 Rose Correspondence
NAM 6807–48 Shelton Defence
NAM 6912–6 Souter Letter
NAM 9007–77 Stapylton’s ‘Journal’
NAM 1968–07–128–1 Trower Journal
NAM 1965–03–65–2–6 Wade Correspondence
National Archives of India, New Delhi
Secret Consultations
Political Consultations
Foreign Consultations
Foreign Miscellaneous
Secret Letters to Court
Secret Letters from Court
Political Letters to Court
Political Letters from Court
Delhi Gazette
Punjab Archives, Lahore
Delhi Residency Papers
Ludhiana Agency Papers
Private Collections
The Fraser Papers, Inverness
Hugh Johnson Journal, Argyll
Walsh Papers, Abergavenny
2. Unpublished Dissertations
Hanifi, Shah Mahmood, ‘Inter-regional Trade and Colonial State Formation in Nineteenth Century Afghanistan’, unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2001
Kapadia, Eruch Rustom, ‘The Diplomatic Career of Sir Claude Wade: A Study of British Relations with the Sikhs and Afghans, July 1823–March 1840’, unpublished PhD thesis, SOAS
3. Persian and Urdu Sources
Manuscripts
National Archives of India, New Delhi
Karim, Munshi Abdul,
Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar, Kanpur, 1851
Published Texts
Amini, Muhammad Hasan,
Paadash-e-Khidmatguzaari-ye-Saadiqaane Ghazi Nayab Aminullah Khan Logari
(The Letters of Ghazi Aminullah Khan Logari), Kabul, 2010
Azam, Muhammad,
Tarikh-Kashmir Azami
,
Lahore, 1303/1885
Busse, Herbert (trans.),
History of Persia under Qajar Rule Translated from the Persian of Hasan-e-Fasai’s Farsnama-ye Naseri
, New York, 1972
Durrani, Sultan Mohammad Khan ibn Musa Khan,
Tarikh-i-Sultani
, began writing on 1 Ramzan 1281 AH (Sunday 29 January 1865) and published first on 14 Shawwal 1298 AH (Friday 8 September 1881), Bombay, 1881
Herawi, Muhammad Asef Fekrat Riyazi,
Ayn al-Waqayi: Tarikh-i Afghanistan
, written c. 1845, pub. Tehran 1369/1990
Karim, Munshi Abdul,
Muharaba Kabul wa Kandahar
, Kanpur, 1851
Kashmiri, Maulana Hamid,
Akbarnama. Asar-i manzum-i Hamid-i Kashmiri
,
written c. 1844, pub. Kabul,
1330 AH/1951, preface by Ahmad-Ali Kohzad
Kohistani, Maulana Muhammad-Ghulam
Akhund-zada b. Mulla Timur-shah
,
mutakhallis ba
‘Gulam’
(or ‘Gulami’ Mohammad Ghulam),
Jangnameh, Jang-nama. Dar wasfi-i mujahidat-i Mir Masjidi-khan Gazi wa sa ir-i mudjahidin rashid-i milli-i aliya-i mutajawizin-i ajnabi dar salha-yi 1839–1842 i. Asar: Maulina
[sic]
Muhammad-Gulam Kuhistani mutakhallis
?
ba ‘Gulami’
,
Kabul 1336 AH/1957 (
Anjuman-i tarikh-i Afghanistan,
No. 48) [preface by Ahmad-Ali Kohzad, without index]. Idem:
Aryana
,
XXI (1333–4 AH/1955), No. 7, pp. 1–8, No. 8, pp. 1–8, No. 9, pp. 33–40, No. 10, pp. 33–40; XIV (1334–5 AH/1956), No. 1, pp. 29–32, No. 3, pp. 33–40, No. 4, pp. 37–40, No. 5, pp. 41–8, No. 6, pp. 17–24, No. 9, pp. 41–8, No. 10, pp. 41–8; XV (1335–6 AH/1957), No. 1, pp. 41–8, No. 2, pp. 33–40, No. 3, pp. 45–8, No. 5, pp. 49–56, No. 6, pp. 17–24, No. 7, pp. 49–56, No. 8, pp. 41–8, No. 9, pp. 41–8 (see Afshar,
MaQalat
,
I, No. 5861)
Mohammad, Fayz,
Siraj ul-Tawarikh
(The Lamp of Histories), trans. R. D. McChesney (forthcoming) (first pub. Kabul, 1913)
Mohammad, Mirza ‘Ata,
Naway Ma’arek
(The Song of Battles), pub. as
Nawa-yi ma’arik. Nuskha-i khatti-i Muza-i Kabul mushtamal bar waqi at-i asr-i Sadoza i u Barakza i, ta lif-i Mirza Mirza ‘Ata’-Muhammad
,
Kabul, 1331 AH/1952 (
Nashrat-i Anjuman-i tarikh,
No. 22) [with a preface by Ahmad-Ali Kohzad, without index]. Idem:
Aryana
, VIII (1328–9 AH/1950), Nos 7–10, pp. 41–8, No. 11, pp. 46–8, No. 12, pp. 49–56; IX (1329–30 AH/1951), Nos 1–12, pp. 41–8; X (1330–1 AH/1952), Nos 1–9, pp. 41–8, No. 10, pp. 49–56
Popalzai, Aziz ud-Din,
Durrat uz-Zaman
, Kabul, 1959
Priestly, Henry (trans
.
)
, Afghanistan and its Inhabitants, Translated from the Hayat-i-Afghani of Muhammad Hayat Khan
, Lahore, 1874
Qalandar, Turk Ali Shah Turk,
Tadhkira-i Sukhunwaran-Chashm-Didah
, n.d.
Shuja, Shah,
Waqiat-i-Shah Shuja
(Memoirs of Shah Shuja), written in 1836, supplement by Mohammad Husain Herati, 1861, pub. as
Waqiat-i Shah-Shuja. Daftar-i avval, duvvum: az Shah-Shuja. Daftar-i sivvum: az Muhammad-Husain Harati
,
Kabul, 1333 AH/1954 (
Nashrat-i Anjuman-i tarikh-i Afghanistan,
No. 29) [pub. after the text of the Kabul manuscript, without notes or index, with a preface by Ah
?
mad-Ali Kohzad]. Idem:
Aryana
,
X (1330–1 AH/1952), No. 11, pp. 33–40, No. 12, pp. 33–40; XI (1331–2 AH/1953), Nos 1–4, pp. 49–56, No. 5, pp. 49–51, Nos 6–11, pp. 49–56
4. Contemporary Works and Periodical Articles in European Languages
Ali, Shahmat,
The Sikhs and Afghans in Connexion with India and Persia
, London, 1847
Allen, Rev. I. N.,
Diary of a March through Sindhe and Afghanistan
, London, 1843
Archer, Major,
Tours in Upper India and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains
, 2 vols, London, 1833
Argyll, Duke of (George Douglas Campbell),
The Afghan Question from 1841 to 1878
, London, 1879
Atkinson, James,
The Expedition into Afghanistan: Notes and Sketches Descriptive of the Country contained in a personal Narrative During the Campaign of 1839 and 1840 up to the Surrender of Dost Mohamed Khan
, London, 1842
Barr, William,
Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshawar and thence to Cabul
, London, 1844.
Bengal Officer, A,
Recollections of the First Campaign West of the Indus and of the Subsequent Operations of the Candahar Force
,
London, 1845
Benson, Arthur C. and Esher, Viscount (eds),
The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty’s Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
, 3 vols, vol. II:
1844–1853
, London, 1908
Blaramberg, Ivan Fedorovitch,
Vospominania
(Memoirs), Moscow, 1978
Broadfoot, Major W.,
The Career of Major George Broadfoot, CB
, London, 1888
Buckle, Captain E.,
Memoirs of the Services of the Bengal Artillery from the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time with Some Account of its Internal Organization
,
London, 1852
Buist, George,
Outline of the Operations of the British Troops in Scinde and Affghanistan, betwixt Nov. 1838 and Nov. 1841; with Remarks on the Policy of the War
, Bombay, 1843
Burnes, Alexander,
Travels into Bokhara, Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, also a Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea to Lahore
, 3 vols, London, 1834
Burnes, Alexander,
Reports and Papers, Political, Geographical and Commercial, Submitted to Government by Sir Alexander Burnes, Lt Leech, Dr Lord and Lt Wood, Employed on Missions in the Years 1835–36–37 in Scinde, Affghanistan and Adjacent Countries
,
Calcutta, 1839
Burnes, Alexander,
Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City in the Years 1836, 7 and 8
,
London, 1843
Burnes, James,
Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars
, Edinburgh, 1837
Calendar of Persian Correspondence of the Punjab Archives abstracted into English
, 3 vols, Lahore, 1972–2004
Conolly, Arthur,
Journey to the North of India, 1829–31
, 2 vols,
London, 1838
Cumming, James Slator,
A Six Year Diary,
London, 1847
Darmesteter, James,
Chants Populaires des Afghans
, Paris, 1888–90
Dennie, Colonel William H.,
Personal Narrative of the Campaigns in Afghanistan
, ed. W. E. Steele, Dublin, 1843
Durand, Henry Marion,
The First Afghan War and its Causes
,
London, 1879
Eastwick, E. B. (An Ex-Political),
Dry Leaves from Young Egypt, being a Glance at Sindh before the Arrival of Sir Charles Napier
, London, 1851
Eden, The Hon. Emily,
Miss Eden’s Letters
, ed. by her great-niece Violet Dickinson, London, 1927
Eden, The Hon. Emily,
Up the Country: Letters written to her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India
, Oxford, 1930
Eden, Fanny,
Tigers, Durbars and Kings: Fanny Eden’s Indian Journals, 1837–1838
, transcribed and ed. by Janet Dunbar, London, 1988
Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of,
A Political Diary
,
ed. Reginald Charles Edward Abbot, London, 1881
Elphinstone, Mountstuart,
An Account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India; comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy
,
London, 1819
Eyre, Captain Vincent,
Journal of Imprisonment in Affghanistan
, London, 1843
Eyre, Major-General Sir Vincent,
The Kabul Insurrection of 1841–2
, London, 1879
Fane, Henry,
Five Years in India, Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal; a visit to the court of Runjeet Sing, etc.
, London, 1842
Fane, Isabella,
Miss Fane in India
, ed. John Pemble,
Gloucester, 1985
Forbes, Archibald,
The Afghan Wars – 1839–42 and 1878–80
, London, 1892
Forrest, G. W.,
Life of
Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, GCB, GCSI
,
Edinburgh, 1909
Forster, George,
A Journey from Bengal to England through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian Sea
, 2 vols,
London, 1798
Fraser, James Baillie,
A Winter’s Journey from Constantinople to Tehran with Travels through Various Parts of Persia
, 2 vols, London, 1838
Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India, Compiled in the Intelligence Branch Division of the Chief of Staff Army Headquarters, India
,
vol. I:
Tribes North of the Kabul River
,
Simla, 1907
Garrett, Lt-Col. H. L. O. and Chopra, G. L.,
Events at the Court of Ranjit Singh 1810–1817, Translated from the Papers in the Alienation Office, Poona
,
Poona, 1935
Gleig, Rev. G. R.,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
, London, 1843
Greenwood, Lieutenant John,
Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign in Afghanistan under General Pollock
, London, 1844
Griffin, Lepel,
Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Barrier between our Growing Empire and Central Asia
, Oxford, 1892
Harlan, Josiah,
Central Asia: Personal Narrative of General Josiah Harlan, 1823–1841
, ed. Frank E. Ross, London, 1939
Harlan, J.,
A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun, with Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of those Countries
,
Philadelphia, 1842