IDEAL | The Great Game of Britain: The classic race game along Britain's historic railway networks | Classic Board Games | For 2-6 Players | Ages 7+

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Johnson, K. Paul (1 January 1994). The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge. SUNY Press. pp.XVIII, 244. ISBN 978-0-7914-2063-8. The introduction is aimed at 'Reconsidering Anglo-Russian relations in Asia' (pp. 1–22) by moving through the post-Cold War need to study ‘the Great Game’ (pp. 1–2), various definitions and understandings of the phrase within the history of its study in both Western and Russian traditions (pp. 2-13), the author's purpose and aims (pp. 3 and 13), debates over ‘the chronological frame of the Great Game’ (pp. 13–18), a working definition of ‘the geographical frames’ (pp. 18–19), and a description of the research project and the sources consulted, along with other miscellaneous clarifications concerning monetary units, calendars, etc. (pp. 19–22). The quintessence of all this has been distilled in the introductory overview above.

In like manner, he omits entirely any discussion, let alone even mention, of the Indian National Congress and its essential predecessors. (22) In relation to both the Turkic Russian and Indian contexts, Sergeev could have made at least passing reference to one of the leading Jadid voices, Ismail bey Gaspirali (1851–1914) as well as the anti-British Indian Muslim reformer Abdul Hafiz Muhammad Barakatullah (1859–1927) who traveled internationally opposing Western imperialism while agitating for Indian independence from British rule. Campbell, Hea Ali Masjid and the British Camp, 1878". www.wdl.org. 5 November 1878. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020 . Retrieved 29 February 2020. a b c d Gozalova, Nigar (2023). "Qajar Iran at the centre of British–Russian confrontation in the 1820s". The Maghreb Review. 48 (1): 89–99. doi: 10.1353/tmr.2023.0003. ISSN 2754-6772. S2CID 255523192.Hingorani, Aman M. (2017). Unravelling the Kashmir Knot (2nded.). New Delhi: Sage. pp.57–58. ISBN 9789351509714.

Sam Miller. A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes. Vintage Books, London 2014. p286. Second Anglo-Afghan War | 1878–1880". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022 . Retrieved 29 February 2020. the Transcaspian conquests of the Czar have brought about, and the seal upon which has been set by the completion of the new railway. The power of menace, which the ability to take Herat involves, has passed from English to Russian hands; the Russian seizure of Herat is now a matter not so much of war as of time; and that the Russians will thus, without an effort, win the first hand in the great game that is destined to be played for the empire of the East. [133] Various authors connect British-Russian competition in Iran to the Great Game as well. [79] [12] [80] This competition continued until the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 after which the British and Russian Empires largely moved together in their overtures for imperial influence in the region until the Bolshevik Revolution. [12]Minute by Viceroy, encl. No. 123 of 1875, Government of India, Foreign Department (Political), to Salisbury, 7 June 1875, N.P.123. Clements, Jonathan (11 December 2012). Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy. Haus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908323-18-7.

By the late 19th century London added the argument that Russian success against the Ottoman Empire would seriously embarrass Britain's reputation for diplomatic prowess. a b Milan Hauner. Unwin Hyman, London 1990. What is Asia to Us?: Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today p76 But this is not all. Sergeev’s Great Game narrative is simply incomplete without mention of Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838–97), a Persian Shia Muslim who was to become the preeminent figurehead of the pan-Islamic movement. Al-Afghani, after completing his theological training in Iran, was journeying in India when the Sepoy Uprising took place. His witnessing of that event led him to launch into a career traveling all around the Middle East, with excursions into Central Asia, promoting the pan-Islamic cause. (7) The Shia Persian Afghani would eventually be courted by the Sunni Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876–1908), who himself made significant contributions to Pan-Islamism at time when ‘a conscious Pan-Islamic tendency [was] becoming evident in the Porte’s policy’. (8) This coincided with, one, the Balkan crisis of 1875–6 in which ‘Ottoman counter measures in Bulgaria created a strong anti-Turkish and anti-Muslim feeling, especially in Britain’, and two, the ensuing Russo-Turkish War (1877–8), which hardened Indian Muslim attitudes against the Russians to the point that ‘the Government of India was showered with numerous petitions condemning Russian action and demanding British support for the Ottomans’. (9) But ‘Britain, still under the influence of Gladstone’s [anti-Ottoman] campaign, chose to remain neutral after the Russian assurance that they would not threaten British interests by occupying Istanbul and the Straits’. (10) Thus, both Britain and Russia, as Christian powers, became the objects of Pan-Islamic scorn across much of the Middle East, Central Asia, and India during the 1870 and 1880s in particular. This is essential, but overlooked material in such a study.In 1868, Russia moved against Bukhara and occupied Samarkand. Prince Gorchakov wrote in the Gorchakov Memorandum of 1874 that the Russian Ambassador to Britain offered an explanation that satisfied Clarendon, the British Foreign Secretary. Clarendon replied that the rapid advance of Russian troops neither alarmed nor surprised the British Government, however it did the British public and the Indian Government. Clarendon proposed a neutral zone between Britain and Russia in the region, a view that was shared by the Russian Government. This led to a confidential meeting in Wiesbaden between Clarendon and Count Brunow, the Russian Imperial Secretary. [144] BANERJEE, ANINDITA (2011). "Liberation Theosophy: Discovering India and Orienting Russia between Velimir Khlebnikov and Helena Blavatsky". PMLA. 126 (3): 610–624. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2011.126.3.610. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 41414133. S2CID 153982002. Archived from the original on 27 April 2022 . Retrieved 27 April 2022. Breu, Thomas; Maselli, Daniel; Hurni, Hans (2005). "Knowledge for Sustainable Development in the Tajik Pamir Mountains". Mountain Research and Development. 25 (2): 139. doi: 10.1659/0276-4741(2005)025[0139:KFSDIT]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 131608320. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020 . Retrieved 27 September 2019.