Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia 1757-1947 by Robert Underwood Johnson

Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia 1757-1947

Robert Underwood Johnson

320 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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'The Great Game' was the struggle between Russia and Britain for imperial influence over southern and central Asia, immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. For the British, the threat to India's frontiers compelled them to dispatch diplo...

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