Journey to the North of India : Overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun Paperback / softback
by Arthur Conolly
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History series
Paperback / softback
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The Great Game, a coinage credited to the British officer Arthur Conolly (1807–42), refers to the nineteenth-century rivalry between Britain and Russia as each power sought supremacy in Central Asia.
In a climate of tension and suspicion that the Russians might attempt to invade India via Afghanistan, Conolly, returning from sick leave in England, embarked in 1829 on an expedition through the region.
His narrative provides observations on the various Asiatic peoples he encountered, including the social, religious and political aspects of their cultures.
He describes also the many dangers he had to deal with, requiring him to assume a series of false identities.
The risks that Conolly faced were underscored some years later, when he was captured and executed in Bukhara.
Volume 2 recounts the time Conolly spent in Afghanistan.
Included also are appendices addressing the possible overland invasion of India as well as the history of Afghanistan.
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- Pages:456 pages, 1 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/08/2014
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- ISBN:9781108069236
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:456 pages, 1 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/08/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108069236
