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On the Indian Frontier
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On the Indian Frontier Hardcover - 2012

by George Curzon; Dhara Anjaria

From the publisher

In 1894, the explorer, geographer, geopolitical analyst-and future Viceroy of India, George Nathaniel Curzon, undertook a twelve hundred mile trek across the Pamirs. Over fifty-four days, averaging twenty-one miles a day, he rode across some of the most hostile terrain in Asia, breaking his journey only to stay over with the local chiefs and take the occasional pot shot at the famed Ovis Poli. Curzon's main objective in making this journey, was to see for himself that terrain from which the security of Britain's Indian empire could be breached, engage with the fiercely independent little kingdoms so strategically located at the gateway to the Indian Empire, and thus (hopefully) pre-empt Russian engagement with the same. His observations resulted in a monograph, meant to be one of a series on imperial defence. The work, which went unpublished owing to Curzon's assumption of the Viceroyalty of India, is crucial to an understanding of one of the most well known players of the Great Game, and to his frontier policy as Viceroy of India. It is here reproduced in its entirety, with attendant graphs and tables, and an introduction by Dhara Anjaria.

Details

  • Title On the Indian Frontier
  • Author George Curzon; Dhara Anjaria
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New Delhi
  • Date 2012
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780199063574 / 0199063575
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 8.4 x 0.6 in (13.97 x 21.34 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects India - History - British occupation,, Afghanistan - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011329596
  • Dewey Decimal Code 954.035

About the author


Dhara Anjaria read History at the University of Melbourne, her doctorate being researched at Royal Holloway College. Her research interests are nineteenth century European imperialism in Asia and the nature of the colonial state, in particular its administrative and political facets. She is currently working on an account of George Curzon's Indian Viceroyalty (1899-1905) as well as researching a comparative account of the divers European colonial powers in South East Asia between 1800-1914. She is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

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