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==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=aberigh1875>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3SsPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42 Notes on Western Turkistan: Some Notes on the Situation in Western Turkistan] By George Aberigh-Mackay. Thack, Spink & Co, Calcutta, 1875. p42</ref> <ref name=Andreeva2007>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5PmSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202806/https://books.google.com/books?id=5PmSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 |date=24 January 2023 }}. By Elena Andreeva. Routledge, Abington, England. 2007. p21</ref> <ref name=barthorp2002>{{cite book |last=Barthorp |first=Michael |title=Afghan Wars and the North-West Frontier 1839β1947|orig-year=1982 |year=2002 |publisher=Cassell |location=London |isbn=978-0-304-36294-3 |pages=66β67}}</ref> <ref name=baten2016>{{cite book|author=Baten, JΓΆrg |title=A History of the Global Economy. From 1500 to the Present.|date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=253|isbn=9781107507180}}</ref> <ref name=bayly1996>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8bqEzPPp8xIC&pg=PA138 Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India:1780-1870] By Christopher Alan Bayly. Cambridge University Press, 1996. p138</ref> <ref name=bayly2016>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cJgZDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA258 Taming the Imperial Imagination:Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808β1878] By Martin J. Bayly. Cambridge University Press 2016. p258</ref> <ref name=blood1995>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DRMTO7mn7hIC&pg=PA20 Pakistan: A Country Study] edited by Peter R. Blood. Library of Congress Publication 1995. p20-21 {{ISBN|0844408344}}</ref> <ref name=chakravarty1973>[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1976-from-khyber-to-oxus-study-in-imperial-expansion-by-chakravarty-s-pdf/ From Khyber to Oxus: Study in Imperial Expansion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328043418/http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1976-from-khyber-to-oxus-study-in-imperial-expansion-by-chakravarty-s-pdf/ |date=28 March 2019 }} by Suhash Chakravarty. Orient Longman, 1976 p 123</ref> <ref name=clements2003>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bv4hzxpo424C&pg=PA198 Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia] By Frank Clements. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, California 2003. p198</ref> <ref name=conolly1834>Journey to the North of India through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan Lt. Arthur Conolly. London, Richard Bentley, 1834. [http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1137&context=afghanuno Volume 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917215739/https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1137&context=afghanuno |date=17 September 2021 }} and [https://archive.org/stream/journeytothenort025018mbp#page/n0/mode/2up Volume 2]</ref> <ref name=curzon1889>George N. Curzon, Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question, London 1889, pp. 356β7.</ref> <ref name=davies1932>C. Collin Davies (1932) Cambridge University Press. p. 158 [https://books.google.com/books?id=PfrXAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 The Problem of the North-West Frontier:1890β1908]</ref> <ref name=dodswell1935>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iAQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA808 Cambridge shorter history of India] by H.H. Dodswell. Cambridge University Press 1935. p808</ref> <ref name=ewans2004b>The Great Game: Britain and Russia in Central Asia. Edited by Martin Ewans. Volume II: [https://books.google.com/books?id=TGTeemW3sHYC&pg=PA9 Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde], by Henry Pottinger. First published by Longman, London, 1816. This edition by RoutledgeCurzon, Milton Park, England 2004. {{ISBN|0415316405}}.</ref> <ref name=forster1798>A Journey from Bengal to England through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia by the Caspian Sea by George Forster. [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CSkQAAAAYAAJ Volume 1] 1798 and [https://archive.org/details/ajourneyfromben01forsgoog Volume 2] 1808 R.Faulding, London.</ref> <ref name=gazetteer1908>{{Harvnb|Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV|1908|p=5}} Quote: "The history of British India falls ... into three periods. From the beginning of the 17th to the middle of the 18th century, the East India Company is a trading corporation, existing on the sufferance of the native powers, and in rivalry with the merchant companies of Holland and France. During the next century the Company acquires and consolidates its dominion, shares its sovereignty in increasing proportions with the Crown, and gradually loses its mercantile privileges and functions. After the Mutiny of 1857, the remaining powers of the Company are transferred to the Crown ..." (p. 5)</ref> <ref name=gebb1983>{{cite journal|author=Gebb, Michael|title=Review:Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia, 1810β1895|journal=UCLA Historical Journal|volume=4|year=1983|url=http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1835h23d#page-2|pages=130β132|quote=(..) "The final balance was formalized by the Joint Pamirs Boundary Commission in 1895."|access-date=29 July 2016|archive-date=12 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312145829/https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1835h23d#page-2|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name=geographer1983>[http://www.juldu.com/Pamir/Wakhan.pdf International Boundary Study No. 26 (Revised) Afghanistan β U.S.S.R. Boundary (Country Codes: AF-UR)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712200043/http://www.juldu.com/Pamir/Wakhan.pdf |date=12 July 2018 }} The Geographer, Office of the Geographer, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, United States of America. 15 September 1983. p4-11</ref> <ref name=gerard1897>Gerard, M. G., [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=afghanenglish "Report on the proceedings of the Pamir Boundary Commission (1897)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510150548/https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=afghanenglish |date=10 May 2022 }}. Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection. Paper 25.</ref> <ref name=gosset2010>David Gosset, 2010. [http://www.ceibs.edu/ase/Documents/zhangqian.htm Beyond the "Great Game" stereotype, the "Zhang Qian's Diplomacy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819160447/http://www.ceibs.edu/ase/Documents/zhangqian.htm |date=19 August 2016 }}.</ref> <ref name=hauner1990>Milan Hauner. Unwin Hyman, London 1990. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Td3aAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 What is Asia to Us?: Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today] p76</ref> <ref name=hussain2015>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4PfOBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49 Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202724/https://books.google.com/books?id=4PfOBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49 |date=24 January 2023 }} By Shafqat Hussain. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015. p49-53</ref> <ref name=ingram1980>{{cite journal |author-link=Edward Ingram (historian) |first=Edward |last=Ingram |title=Great Britain's Great Game: An Introduction |journal=The International History Review |volume=2 |number=2 |date=April 1980 |pages=160β171 |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd. |doi=10.1080/07075332.1980.9640210 |jstor=40105749 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105749 |issn=0707-5332 |access-date=4 December 2017 |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417003930/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105749 |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name=ingram1984>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fr9cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 In Defence of British India: Great Britain in the Middle East, 1775-1842] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202707/https://books.google.com/books?id=Fr9cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 |date=24 January 2023 }} By Edward Ingram. Frank Cass & Co, London, 1984. {{ISBN|0714632465}}. p7-19</ref> <ref name=kazemzadeh1968>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aWEBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 Russia and Britain in Persia: Imperial Ambitions in Qajar Iran] By [[Firuz Kazemzadeh]]. Yale University Press, 1968. p33</ref> <ref name="kipling">Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (London: Macmillan, 1949).</ref> <ref name=laruelle2011>Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies. By MarlΓ¨ne Laruelle and SΓ©bastien Peyrouse. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, England, 2011. {{ISBN|9781409409854}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=tLrAzOpomrUC&pg=PA9 Chapter 1 β Foreign Policy and Myth Making: Great Game] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202742/https://books.google.com/books?id=tLrAzOpomrUC&pg=PA9 |date=24 January 2023 }}, p9</ref> <ref name=laruelle2013>Globalizing Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development. By Marlene Laruelle, Sebastien Peyrouse. Routledge, Abington, England, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-7656-3504-4}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=S2-mBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 Part I β Great Games and Small Games], p7</ref> <ref name=loftus1874>Loftus to Derby, 17 November 1874, Correspondence; F.O. 65/1202</ref> <ref name=manning2000a>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/24590437 The Myth of the Caspian Great Game and the "New Persian Gulf"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827024107/http://www.jstor.org/stable/24590437 |date=27 August 2016 }} by Robert A. Manning. The Brown Journal of World Affairs Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2000), pp. 15β33</ref> <ref name=manning2000b>The Asian Energy Factor: Myths and Dilemmas of Energy, Security and the Pacific Future by Robert A. Manning. Palgrave Macmillan (11 November 2000)</ref> <ref name=marshall2005>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SZD9--xYamkC&pg=PA134 Britain and Tibet 1765β1947] by Julie G. Marshall. Routledge Curzon, Abingdon, England, 2005. p134</ref> <ref name=masson1842>[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofvario015070mbp Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab: Including a Residence in Those Countries from 1826β1838] Charles Masson. Richard Bentley, London 1842-3. 4 volumes.</ref> <ref name=middleton2005>{{cite web|last=Middleton|first=Robert|title=The Earl of Dunmore 1892β93|publisher=Pamirs Org|year=2005|url=http://www.pamirs.org/a%20summary%201892%20dunmore.pdf|access-date=25 July 2010|archive-date=28 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428054050/http://www.pamirs.org/a%20summary%201892%20dunmore.pdf|url-status=dead}} a commentary on "The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and Foot through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary and Russian Central Asia" by [[Charles Adolphus Murray]], the Eighth Earl of Dunmore.</ref> <ref name=noelle1997>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ylTi-e2C_0IC&pg=PA101 State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826β1863)] By Christine Noelle. Routledge, Abingdon UK, 1997. p101</ref> <ref name=outram1860>[https://archive.org/details/lieutgeneralsir00outrgoog ''Lieut.-General Sir James Outram's Persian Campaign in 1857'']. Outram, Lieut. General Sir James. 1860. London: Smith, Elder and Co. p=iii</ref> <ref name=penzev2010>{{cite web|author=Konstantin Penzev|title=When Will the Great Game End?|year=2010|publisher=Oriental Review Org|url=http://orientalreview.org/2010/11/15/when-will-the-great-game-end/|access-date=22 August 2012|archive-date=13 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213202528/http://orientalreview.org/2010/11/15/when-will-the-great-game-end/|url-status=live}} web article, no page numbers.</ref> <ref name=rowe2010>{{cite book|title=Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-state|url=https://archive.org/details/borderlinesborde00hage|url-access=limited|editor=Alexander C. Diener |editor2=Joshua Hagen|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2010|author=William C. Rowe|chapter=Chapter 4: The Wakhan Corridor β The endgame of The Great Game|page=[https://archive.org/details/borderlinesborde00hage/page/n74 64]|quote= In setting these boundaries, the final act of the tense game played out by the British and Russian governments came to a close.}}</ref> <ref name=secret1830>Secret committee to governor-general in council, 12 January 1830, India Office Records, Ltes/5/543</ref> <ref name=seigel2002>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sY2UYtcAfd8C&pg=PA18 Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202709/https://books.google.com/books?id=sY2UYtcAfd8C&pg=Pa18 |date=24 January 2023 }}. [[Jennifer Siegel]]. I.B.Tauris, London 2002. p18</ref> <ref name=sergeev2013>The Great Game, 1856β1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia. Evgeny Sergeev Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, {{ISBN|9781421408095}}</ref> <ref name=sicker2001>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BzMJys65u9wC&pg=PA156 The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.] By Martin Sicker. Praeger, London, 2001. p156</ref> <ref name=siemens>[http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/information_and_communications.htm Indo-European Telegraph Line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307105708/http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/information_and_communications.htm |date=7 March 2012 }} Siemens History site</ref> <ref name=snedden2015>[https://books.google.com/books?id=a19eCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT55 Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124202755/https://books.google.com/books?id=a19eCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT55 |date=24 January 2023 }} by Christopher Snedden. C. Hurst & Co, London, 2015. p55-62</ref> <ref name=storey2012>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Tf2CAs85w-AC&pg=PA29 Great British Adventurers] by Nicholas Storey. Pen and Sword Books Ltd, Yorkshire, UK, 2012. {{ISBN|9781844681303}} p29-32</ref> <ref name=tate1911>[http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=afghanuno The Kingdom of Afghanistan: A Historical Sketch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827014207/http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=afghanuno |date=27 August 2016 }}. By George P. Tate. Bennet, Coleman & Co, Bombay, 1911. p213-4</ref> <ref name=vescovi2014>[https://doaj.org/article/1c3f8d825ffd4e00b18dccf517f42deb Beyond East and West: the Meaning and Significance of Kim's Great Game] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816183357/https://doaj.org/article/1c3f8d825ffd4e00b18dccf517f42deb |date=16 August 2016 }} by A. Vescovi (2014), p.12. cited in Other Modernities, by the University of Milan</ref> <ref name=viceroy1875>Minute by Viceroy, encl. No. 123 of 1875, Government of India, Foreign Department (Political), to Salisbury, 7 June 1875, N.P.123.</ref> <ref name=warikoo2009>[https://books.google.com/books?id=w_Z8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 Himalayan Frontiers of India: Historical, Geo-Political and Strategic Perspectives] edited by K. Warikoo. Routledge, Abingdon, 2009. p14</ref> <ref name=wolff1845>[https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16713/ Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843β1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826064654/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16713/ |date=26 August 2016 }} by Reverend Dr. Joseph Wolff. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1845. p235</ref> <ref name=wood1872>[https://archive.org/details/ajourneytosourc00woodgoog Journey to the Source of the River Oxus] by Captain John Wood. John Murray, London, 1872.</ref> <ref name=yate1887>Yate, Lieutenant Arthur Campbell. ''[https://archive.org/details/englandrussiafac00yate England and Russia Face to Face in Asia: Travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission.]'' W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1887.</ref> <ref name=yate1888>[[Sir Charles Yate, 1st Baronet|Yate, Major Charles Edward]]. ''[https://archive.org/details/northernafghanis00yaterich Northern Afghanistan; Or, Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission]'' W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1888.</ref> }}
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