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Balochistan, the British and the Great Game : the struggle for the Bolan Pass, gateway to India /

The Great Game for Central Asia led to British involvement in Balochistan, a sparsely-populated area in Pakistan, mostly desert and mountain, and containing the Bolan Pass, the southern counterpart of the more famous Khyber. It occupies a position of great strategic importance between Pakistan, Afgh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Heathcote, T. A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Hurst, 2015.
Subjects:	Balochistān (Pakistan) > History.

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