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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2014
    31 July 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107589513
    9781108075466
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107589513
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.49kg, 388 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, South Asian History, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, South Asian History, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Aged sixteen, Alexander Burnes (1805–41) took up a post in the Bombay army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His skills led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country, but also to observe the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. In 1832, he set off, with an army doctor, and two Indians as surveyor and secretary. They travelled in local dress and adopted whatever personas a situation required. Having reached Bukhara, they continued overland to the Caspian Sea, and then to Tehran, returning to Bombay by sea in 1833. This three-volume account of his adventures, published in 1834, was an instant bestseller. Volume 1 describes the journey to Bukhara, through Afghanistan into barely explored territory. Burnes continued his diplomatic activities in Afghanistan, but was murdered there by a mob in 1841.

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