The Great Game In Afghanistan

Author : Kallol Bhattacharjee
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789352644407

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The Great Game in Afghanistan by Kallol Bhattacharjee Pdf

At the height of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, a complex multinational diplomacy had proposed setting up a coalition government in Kabul as a solution to the 'Afghan problem'. Even as all sides worked on the coalition, the US took steps that India considered a 'stab in the back'. With the help of the official papers collected by US ambassador John Gunther Dean and conversations with Ronen Sen, Rajiv Gandhi's diplomatic aide during those crucial years, the author recreates the falling apart of the India-US cooperation and the catastrophic effect it had on South Asian history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : OCLC:466863835

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The Great Game by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Afghan Wars
ISBN : 0192802321

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The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

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 Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. When play firstbegan the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.This book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horsetraders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence, and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some neverreturned.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015084102089

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The Great Game: Afghanistan by Anonim Pdf

Will be performed between April 17th and June 14th 2010 as part of the Tricycle Theatre's Afghanistan.

Author : Suhash Chakravarty,Susash Chakravarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052346122

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Afghanistan and the Great Game by Suhash Chakravarty,Susash Chakravarty Pdf

Dealing With The Crucial Period From 1869 To 1880, The Work Begins By Examining The British Attempts To Come To A Negotiated Settlement With The Russian Government Regarding The States And Frontiers Of Afghanistan And Ends With An Analysis Of The Shifts In Policy And Power That Led To Lord Lytton`S Futile Military Adventure. A Rich Range Of Original Material Drawn From Public Archives As Well As From Family Papers Has Been Sifted In Order To Achieve What Must Be A Comprehensive Study Made So Far On The Subject.

Author : Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134383788

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The Small Players of the Great Game by Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh Pdf

This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local players in that game. Looking at the territorial consequences of the Great Game for the local players is a unique approach, which deserves a special place in the studies of history, geography, politics and geopolitics of the age of modernity.

Author : Edmund James Yorke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 0709091966

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Playing the Great Game by Edmund James Yorke Pdf

Playing the Great Game explores and analyzes the tension between the British political and military authorities that has been generated by the impact of all these wars. It argues that excessive political interference in the conduct of such wars, which is often resource-driven, has been the predominate cause of the many difficulties encountered.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848544772

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The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk Pdf

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 Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today.

Author : Martin Ewans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415316391

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The Great Game: Documents by Martin Ewans Pdf

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, which effectively marked the end of the confrontation.

Author : Tamim Ansary
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610390958

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Games without Rules by Tamim Ansary Pdf

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out, and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation undermined by its own demons while, every 40 to 60 years, a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made. Told in conversational, storytelling style, and focusing on key events and personalities, Games without Rules provides revelatory insight into a country at the center of political debate.

Author : Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786736782

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Tournament of Shadows by Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac Pdf

From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. Many believed that control of the vast Eurasian heartland was the key to world dominion. The original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, but the geopolitical struggles in Central Asia continue to the present day. In this updated edition, the authors reflect on Central Asia's history since the end of the Russo-Afghan war, and particularly in the wake of 9/11.

Author : Lutz Kleveman
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802141722

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The New Great Game by Lutz Kleveman Pdf

In the tradition of The Prize, Lutz Kleveman gives us the twenty-first-century chapter on the history, passion, and politics of oil and gas resources, and the struggle to control them in a critical part of the world. Using the concept of the "Great Game" that Rudyard Kipling immortalized in his novel Kim, Kleveman argues that there is now a new Great Game in the region, a modern variant of the nineteenth-century clash of imperial ambitions of Great Britain and Tsarist Russia. Traveling thousands of miles, from Turkmenistan (where statues of the country's leader are made of gold and line the thoroughfares) to the Afghan Hindu Kush, Kleveman met with the principal Great Game actors between Kabul and Moscow: oil barons, generals, diplomats, and warlords. Based on extensive research and travel in the Caucasus, the Caspian, and Central Asia, The New Great Game is a thrilling travel narrative through one of the world's last unexplored frontiers, and a savvy and incisive analysis of the power struggle for the world's remaining energy resources.

Author : Alok Bansal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 9390095492

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Afghanistan by Alok Bansal Pdf

Examines the circumstances surrounding the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Authors from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan analyse the circumstances that enabled the Taliban to stage a comeback, the new game being played in Afghanistan, its possible impact on the region and people, and the global power dynamics.

Author : Craig Murray
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857902511

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Sikunder Burnes by Craig Murray Pdf

This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the most accomplished spies Britain ever produced and the main antagonist of the Great Game as Britain strove with Russia for control of Central Asia and the routes to the Raj. There are many lessons for the present day in this tale of the folly of invading Afghanistan and Anglo-Russian tensions in the Caucasus. Murray's meticulous study has unearthed original manuscripts from Montrose to Mumbai to put together a detailed study of how British secret agents operated in India. The story of Burnes' life has a cast of extraordinary figures, including Queen Victoria, King William IV, Earl Grey, Benjamin Disraeli, Lola Montez, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Among the unexpected discoveries are that Alexander and his brother James invented the myths about the Knights Templars and Scottish Freemasons which are the foundation of the Da Vinci Code; and that the most famous nineteenth-century scholar of Afghanistan was a double agent for Russia.

Author : Sébastien Peyrouse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230114357

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China and India in Central Asia by Sébastien Peyrouse Pdf

This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. 'Great Game' at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theatres on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level.