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Nikolaidou, Dimitra (15 September 2016). "Why the Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom". Atlas Obscura. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021 . Retrieved 1 September 2021. They're based in convenient locations including supermarkets, newsagents and train stations. Plus they're often open late and on Sundays. Silk and spice festival in modern-day Bukhara, Uzbekistan First signs of possible India invasion [ edit ] 1909 map of the British Indian Empire, showing British India in two shades of pink and the princely states in yellow Japanese Spies in Inner Asia during the Early Twentieth Century* | The Silk Road". edspace.american.edu. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021 . Retrieved 1 September 2021.

British-Russian competition also existed in Tibet and " Inner Asia". Strategists of the Russian Empire sought to create a springboard to surround the Qing dynasty in Inner Asia as well as a second front against British India from the northeast direction. [3] Nain Singh Rawat (1830-1882), a surveyor employed by the British to explore the Himalayas Though the Great Game was marked by distrust, diplomatic intrigue, and regional wars, it never erupted into a full-scale war directly between Russian and British colonial forces. [1] However, the two nations battled in the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856, which affected the Great Game. [2] [3] The Russian and British Empires also cooperated numerous times during the Great Game, including many treaties and the Afghan Boundary Commission. The Great Game of Britain Board Game includes 1 playing board, 36 x souvenier cards, 60 x hazard cards, 6 x steam train playing pieces, 12 x counters, 1 x die, 1 x die shaker Here we are, just as we were, snarling at each other, hating each other, but neither wishing for war. – Lord Palmerston (1835) [31] Pakistan: A Country Study edited by Peter R. Blood. Library of Congress Publication 1995. p20-21 ISBN 0844408344Similarly to the British Empire, the Russian Empire saw themselves as a "civilizing power" expanding a purely humanitarian mission among the Turcomans into what they perceived a "semi-barbarous" region, reflecting the ideology of the time. [30] [3] Early explorations and accounts [ edit ] Afghan foot soldiers in British regiment "The Rangers", 1841 East India Company [ edit ]

The Russians had gained all of the lands north of the Amu Darya which included the land claimed by the Khanate of Khiva, including the approaches to Herat, and all of the land claimed by the Khanate of Khoqand, including the Pamir plateau. To ensure a complete separation, this new Afghan state was given an odd eastern appendage known as the Wakhan Corridor. "In setting these boundaries, the final act of the tense game played out by the British and Russian governments came to a close." [103] Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 [ edit ] Influence zones in Iran following the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907Second Anglo-Afghan War | 1878–1880". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022 . Retrieved 29 February 2020. The Great Game: Britain and Russia in Central Asia. Edited by Martin Ewans. Volume II: Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde, by Henry Pottinger. First published by Longman, London, 1816. This edition by RoutledgeCurzon, Milton Park, England 2004. ISBN 0415316405.

As for a Kazakh perspective, Kereihan Amanzholov insists, contra Sergeev, that Russian colonization offered ‘no essential difference with the colonialist policies of Britain, France, and other European powers’ since all of them were ‘Eurocentric’ and exploitative. (50)In the 1850s, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels accused MP and PM Lord Palmerston of colluding with Russia during the Crimean War. At the time, Marx alleged that Palmerston weakened Britain's defense of the Ottoman Empire. [135] [136] [137] Although this view was not otherwise widespread, the same accusation was levied by David Urquhart (1805-1877). [138] [136] [139] 1912 map of Central and South Asia The Indo-European Telegraph Line, which allowed London to communicate with its colony in India from 1870 onward, was built through the territory of the Russian Empire, during the 'Great Game' between Russia and Britain. [140] Nevertheless, an all-British-owned line Eastern Telegraph Company also completed its first India connection in 1870, the same year. Breu, Thomas; Maselli, Daniel; Hurni, Hans (2005). "Knowledge for Sustainable Development in the Tajik Pamir Mountains". Mountain Research and Development. 25 (2): 139. doi: 10.1659/0276-4741(2005)025[0139:KFSDIT]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 131608320. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020 . Retrieved 27 September 2019. I fully agree with your critique of the Eurocentric approach of E. Sergeev. His statements remind me of some pre-Soviet and Soviet publications. …Seems to me, the author disregarded post-Soviet publications of Central Asian historians. (49)