On the Indian frontier / Lord Curzon of Kedleston ; edited with an introduction by Dhara Anjaria.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2012وصف:xxxv, 283 pages : maps ; 22 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199063575
- 9780199063574
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- History -- 19th century
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- Description and travel
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- Social life and customs
- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century
- Afghanistan -- Social life and customs
- Afghanistan -- Description and travel
- India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
- DS392.N67 C87 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS392.N67 C87 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011141547 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS392.N67 C87 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011141548 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS392.N67 C87 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.3 | المتاح | 30010011141549 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In 1894, the explorer, geographer, geopolitical analyst-and future Viceroy of India, George Nathaniel Curzon, undertook a twelve hundred mile trek across the Pamirs. Over fifty-four days, averaging twenty-one miles a day, he rode across some of the most hostile terrain in Asia, breaking his journey only to stay over with the local chiefs and take the occasional pot shot at the famed Ovis Poli. Curzon's main objective in making this journey, was to see for himself that terrain from which the security of Britain's Indian empire could be breached, engage with the fiercely independent little kingdoms so strategically located at the gateway to the Indian Empire, and thus (hopefully) pre-empt Russian engagement with the same. His observations resulted in a monograph, meant to be one of a series on imperial defence. The work, which went unpublished owing to Curzon's assumption of the Viceroyalty of India, is crucial to an understanding of one of the most well known players of the Great Game, and to his frontier policy as Viceroy of India. It is here reproduced in its entirety, with attendant graphs and tables, and an introduction by Dhara Anjaria.