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The ‘Central Asian Question’ in Anglo-Russian diplomacy was less a question put by the Russians to the English than by the English to themselves. What would become of England’s power and position in the East if Russia continued to press southwards towards Persia and into the independent states of Turkestan?
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Baron Jomini, Diplomatic Study on the Crimean War (a Russian official publication, first translated into English in 1882), pp. 12–15.
The most graphic account of these events is still J. W. Kaye, The War in Afghanistan, 3rd ed. (London, 1874), ii, ch. 2, ‘The Great Game in Central Asia’. For a modern account,
Fitzroy Maclean, A Person from England (London, 1958), 43 ff.
Brunnov to Nesselrode, 6/18 May 1841; F. de Martens, Recueil des Traités et Conventions conclus par la Russie avec les Puissances étrangères, xii (St Petersburg, 1898), 77.
J. P. Ferrier, edited and translated by H. D. Seymour, Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan, 2nd ed. (London, 1857) p.469.
A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, ‘The Shadow of India in Russian History’, History, xiii (October, 1929), 224–5.
G. N. Curzon, Russia in Central Asia (London, 1889), p. 325;
Josef Popowski, The Rival Powers in Central Asia (London, 1892), pp. 91, 95–6;
H. Sutherland Edwards, Russian Projects Against India (London, 1885), p.263.
The Circular is printed in W. K. Fraser-Tytler, Afghanistan (Oxford, 1950), pp. 305–9 from A. and P. (1873), lxxv, c. 704, appendix.
e.g., H. Seton-Watson, The Decline of Imperial Russia (London, 1952), p. 86.
Russell to Lumley, 31 July 1865, ibid. no. 23 — marked, ‘Central Asia, Proposed Agreement between two Governments as to Policy’; printed as amended in Sir Edward Hertslet, Recollections of the Old Foreign Office (London, 1901), pp. 117–19;
and cf. B. H. Sumner, Russia and the Balkans, 1870–1880 (Oxford, 1937), pp. 43–4; Popowski, Rival Powers, p. 106.
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Thornton, A.P. (1968). The ‘Central Asian Question’. In: For the File on Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81777-1_16
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