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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Take a nostalgic race around the historic railway networks of Britain with The Great Game of Britain Board Game. 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.

The report emphasized that ‘Britain must retain its military connection with the subcontinent so as to ward off the Soviet Union’s threat to the area’, citing four reasons for the ‘strategic importance of India to Britain’—India’s ‘value as a base from which forces could be suitably deployed within the Indian Ocean area, in the Middle East and the Far East’; it serving as ‘a transit point for air and sea communications’; it being ‘a large reserve of manpower of good fighting quality’; and the strategic importance of the northwest region to threaten the Soviet Union. [152] The Great Game as a legend [ edit ] Mythologized aspects of the Great Game [ edit ] The box has a moulded plastic insert that keeps everything neatly together when the game is not in use.a b c d Marvin, Charles (1883). The Russians at Merv and Herat, and their power of invading India. London: W.H. Allan & Co. Archived from the original on 15 December 2022 . Retrieved 15 December 2022. Hingorani, Aman M. (2017). Unravelling the Kashmir Knot (2nded.). New Delhi: Sage. pp.57–58. ISBN 9789351509714.

a b The Great Game, 1856–1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia. Evgeny Sergeev Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, ISBN 9781421408095BANERJEE, 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. The Russians had gained all of the lands north of the Amu Darya which included the land claimed by the Khanate of Khiva, including the approaches to Herat, and all of the land claimed by the Khanate of Khoqand, including the Pamir plateau. To ensure a complete separation, this new Afghan state was given an odd eastern appendage known as the Wakhan Corridor. "In setting these boundaries, the final act of the tense game played out by the British and Russian governments came to a close." [103] Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 [ edit ] Influence zones in Iran following the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 American historian David Fromkin argues that by the mid-19th century the British had developed at least nine reasons to expect a major war with Russia unless Russian expansion in Asia could be stopped: And so, Sergeev still carries on not only a long-standing Tsarist tradition, but the post-Stalinist approach of the 1950s and 1960s which he himself highlights when ‘the champions of the so-called concept of the lesser evil advocated the Russian penetration of Central Asia as a progressive development aimed at the reformation of preindustrial societies’ (p. 11). His direct descent from this line of scholarship is only reinforced by the continuation of the same quote which clarifies that

Russia remained a focus for Curzon through and after his time as Viceroy of India. [134] "The British colluded with the Russians over Central Asia" [ edit ]a b c Jelavich, Barbara (1974). St. Petersburg and Moscow: Tsarist and Soviet foreign policy, 1814–1974. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp.200–201. ISBN 0-253-35050-6. OCLC 796911. Special thanks to Dr. Anara Tabyshalieva (co-editor with M. Palat of History of the Civilizations of Central Asia: Volume 6: towards the contemporary period: From the mid-nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, UNESCO, 2005) for offering critical comments on this review before its publication. Responsibility for all content remains my own. Notes

As well as the rules of gameplay the instruction leaflet contains a brief history of the train network in Britain covering the steam engine, the uses of gauges, the network development, use of signals, carriages, development of the railway lines, electrification, speed, and preservation. Game Play Set Up a b c Patrikeeff, Felix (2002). Russian Politics in Exile. pp.121–124. doi: 10.1057/9780230535787. ISBN 978-1-349-40636-4. What this means for the Russian advance into Central Asia is summed up most effectively in one particular passage: Items that are not available in store will take 3-5 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to be delivered to your nominated store. First, the author's discussion of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, drawing on essential post-1950s Soviet scholarship, certainly contains reference to political, economic, and religious (especially pan-Islamic) ties between 19th-century India and the Central Asian states. He, nonetheless, could have added greater depth and clarity to the discussion by highlighting how the process of industrialization in both Russia and Britain along with the Russian ‘imposition of a state banking infrastructure’ in Central Asia ‘effectively remov[ed] Indians from their central role in the Central Asian rural credit system’ so that ‘in just a few short decades, the centuries-old Indian diaspora in Central Asia came to an end’. (4) This in turn, I suggest, must have affected the leverage of India in its political and possibly even religious (Islamic) relations with the Central Asian states, which certainly continued, though with decreasing frequency and economic clout. It must also have impacted the economy and thus even politics of British India, adding to the sense of competition with Russia, not only in general, but particularly in the Central Asian realms.a good number of present-day historians are still unable to rid themselves of the falsely convincing opinions which have been soaked into their heads through the writings of the middle centuries, particularly the chronicles of Ancient Russia. According to them, nomads … cannot even be placed on a level with human beings. They are even ascribed the position of being the offspring of demons and devils who suddenly came forth from hell on the day humanity came into being. (44) 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]