British Afghanistan

British Afghanistan its possible?


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In the early 1880s, Great Britain (which at that time effectively controlled the foreign policy of Afghanistan) and the Russian Empire opened negotiations to define the northern border of Afghanistan. The two sides formed a Joint Boundary Commission, which began work in the fall of 1885. By January 1888, the commission had set up 79 boundary markers along the 630-kilometer frontier from the Du’l-Feqar Pass to the Amudar’ya River. This annotated map of the western half of Afghanistan shows the route taken by the British (i.e., Indian) half of the commission from Quetta in British India to Herat, where it set up its headquarters, and further north where the survey work was undertaken. Colored lines are used to indicate “Boundary as actually demarcated," "Boundary as required by the Russians," and "Boundary as required by the Afghans.” The author referred to in the title of the map is most likely Sir Joseph West Ridgeway (1844–1930), who succeeded Sir Peter Stark Lumsden as the head of the Indian side of the commission and played a large role in both the survey work and in negotiations concerning the border with the Russian government in Saint Petersburg.
 
Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush and Passes Between the Kabul and Oxus



This map originally appeared in the February 1879 issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography in connection with an article by C.R. Markham entitled “The Upper Basin of the Kabul River.”
The Hindu Kush is a range of high mountains that extends some 800 kilometers in a northeast-to-southwest direction from the Pamir Mountains near the Pakistan-China border, through Pakistan, and into western Afghanistan.

The range forms the drainage divide between two great river systems, the Amu Darya to the northwest, and the Indus to the southeast.

The ancient Greeks called the Amu Darya the Oxus, the name used on this map.
The passes through the Hindu Kush historically have been of great military significance. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)
crossed these mountains with his army in 329 BC, most likely over the Khawak Pass, during a campaign to suppress a revolt against his authority in Bactria,
an eastern province of the Persian Empire.






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© Courtesy of Library of Congress
 
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View Poll Results: British Afghanistan its possible? Become in a British Colony
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17 31.48% It's Not would have able to maintain Afghanistan as a British colony
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15 27.78% Only able to control the south, the rest is either controlled by the Russians or tribal war lords
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29 53.70% Result : Has win the third option.





 
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