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050	0	0	_aDK68. _bE393 1885
100	1		_aEdwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland), 1828-1906.
245	1	0	_aRussian projects against India from the Czar Peter to General Skobeleff / _cby H. Sutherland Edwards.
260			_aLondon : _bRemington & Co. Publishers, _c1885.
300			_a295 pages : _bcolor maps ; _c30 cm.
500			_a“With maps”—title page.
500			_a“Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828–1906) was a British author and journalist who over a long career worked in a wide range of genres, producing dramatic pieces, fiction, and serious journalism. In 1856 he went to Russia as correspondent of the Illustrated Times to cover the coronation of Tsar Alexander II. He remained in Moscow to study the language and married the daughter of a Scottish engineer who had settled in Russia. Sutherland developed a lifelong interest in Russian subjects, and wrote numerous essays and articles and several books on Russian themes. Russian Projects against India from the Czar Peter to General Skobeleff is a history of Russian interest in and expansion into Central Asia from the time of Peter the Great (1672–1725) to the late 19th century. Echoing what was a widely held view in Great Britain at the time, Sutherland writes in the preface: “Russian expeditions in Central Asia (supported at critical moments by intriguers in Persia and Afghanistan) have always been undertaken, not with a view to an improved frontier, the Russian frontier on the Central Asian side never having been threatened; nor for commercial purposes, the exports and imports between Russia and the Khanates being of the most trifling value, and quite out of proportion to the cost of occupying and administering the Russian possessions in Central Asia: but simply in order to place Russia in a position to threaten and, on a fitting opportunity, attack India.” Among the Russian expeditions covered in detail by Sutherland are General Vasily Alexseevich Perovsky’s expedition of 1839 to Khiva; Colonel Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev’s mission of 1858 to Khiva and Bukhara; and General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman’s expedition to Khiva of 1872‒73. The concluding chapter, “Projects for the Invasion of India,” discusses several different schemes put forward by Russian military writers in the second half of the 19th century for Russian advances on India through Afghanistan. The book contains a fold-out color map of the Russo-Afghan frontier”—copied from website.
500			_aThe 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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650		0	_aEastern question (Central Asia).
651		0	_aRussia – Foreign relations – India.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_dk68_e393_1885 _zScanned for ACKU.
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