Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 19/5
Title
Printed article by Hamilton, 'Our true policy in India - a rejoinder', 1889, on British policy in Afghanistan
Date(s)
- 1889 Mar 25 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
11pp
Scope and content
Offprint of article, 'Our true policy in India-a rejoinder', (from The Fortnightly Review), by 'An Indian officer' [Hamilton], regarding the 'forward policy' in Afghanistan, proposing reinforcement of the British Army in India and a British alliance with Afghanistan, and rebutting an article by Colonel John Frederick Maurice in The Fortnightly Review of Feb 1889, in which Maurice had asserted that a potential Russian invasion of India through Afghanistan was unlikely, and which had advocated blocking Russian expansionism in continental Europe by the cooperation of British military forces with other European powers. 11pp