The Great Game


This is an interesting stylised map which shows how the British in India felt vulnerable from the heights of the Himalayas. The British invested enormous quantities of time and effort in trying to protect their Jewel in the Crown from invasion, imagine or real, from the North.


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by Stephen Luscombe