The Russo-Afghan question and the invasion of India / (Record no. 41611)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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Classification number D378.
Item number M355 1885
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Personal name Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce),
Dates associated with a name 1825-1898.
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Title The Russo-Afghan question and the invasion of India /
Statement of responsibility, etc by G. B. Malleson.
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Edition statement Second edition.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London ; New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc George Routledge and Sons Broadway, Ludgate Hill,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1885.
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Extent 192 pages :
Other physical details maps ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “George Bruce Malleson was a British army officer and military historian who had served in India and who wrote prolifically on the history of India and Afghanistan. One of his major works was History of Afghanistan from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878, a political and military history of Afghanistan that was published in London in 1879, shortly after the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878−80). The Russo-Afghan Question and the Invasion of India, published six years later, has the same theme as the earlier book, namely the strategic importance to the British Empire of Afghanistan as a buffer against Russian expansionism and the growing seriousness of the Russian threat to Afghanistan and by extension to India. The immediate impetus to Malleson’s writing the second book was the Russian annexation of Merv (in present-day Turkmenistan) and the formation of a joint Anglo-Russian boundary commission to determine the northern frontier of Afghanistan. The author argues that the territories recently seized by Russia historically belonged to the amir of Afghanistan and should be returned to him. The key strategic point, Malleson argues, is Herat, “the outlying redoubt of India” and in his view the next objective in the Russian campaign of expansion. Malleson calls for a forceful response to the threat from Russia, and specifically the concentration of “all our available troops in the Pishin valley, ready for a prompt advance” to Herat. Chapter nine, “The Armies on Both Sides,” contains a detailed accounting of the size, composition, and strength of Russian military units deployed in Central Asia and of the British and Indian troops available for the protection of India. The book presented here is the second edition of The Russo-Afghan Question and the Invasion of India, published in 1885”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Language note English
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Geographic name Afghanistan – Boundaries.
Geographic name Russia – Foreign relations – Great Britain.
Geographic name Great Britain – Foreign relations – Russia.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_m355_1885">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_d378_m355_1885</a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_d378_m355_1885
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 23/01/2018   D378.M355 1885 3ACKU000505650 23/01/2018 23/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.