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The Great Game: On the practicability of an invasion of British India
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: George De Lacy Evans
Categories: Eastern question (Central Asia)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, wh
Mapping the Great Game
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Riaz Dean
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-19 - Publisher: Casemate

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The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography. In the 19t
The Great Game
Language: en
Pages: 661
Authors: Peter Hopkirk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-27 - Publisher: John Murray

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For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Centr
The Great Game: Documents
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Martin Ewans
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, wh
The Insecurity State
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Mark Condos
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he