Abdurrahman, Emir of Afghanistan, 129; his pension, 134; Sir B. Frere's opinion thereon, 134. Abiverd, 34.
Acquisitions in Turkestan by Russia,
Affluents of the Murghab River, 78. Afghan friendship, Value of, 128. Afghan Frontier Commission, 82, 83, 85, 111.
Afghanistan and India, 9; a neutral zone, 66.
Akhal, 29; fertility of, 34; work of
the people, 37; civilisation in, 40. Akhal Tekke-Turkomans, 34; mas- sacre of, 36. Ak Sakals, 47.
Alai Mountains in Khokand, 135. Alikhanoff, Col., of Tartar origin, 44;
how he got into Merv, 45; sub- mission of the people, 47; his de- signs on Penjdeh, 88; his action on the Khushk River, 132. Altai, 5, 169.
Anglo-Afghan war, Origin of, 60, 68,
Anglo-Saxon character, Strength of,
Argyll, Duke of, on Russian conquest, 125.
Army, English and Russian, 136.
Asiatic professions, Value of, 133. Asiatics and Russian customs, 33. Ashkabad (abode of love), 39; its re- lation to Merv, 44. Ashurada, Occupation of, 28. Auckland, Lord, and Turkestan, 8. Ayoob Khan, 119.
Bagtche-Sarai, Khans of, 4. Baker and Batoum, 35. Balkans, 28.
Barrier in Asia inevitable, 158. Benefits of British conquest in the East 195.
Bokhara, 4; Emir of, 8; assists Kho- kand, 17; fall of, 25. Bolan Pass, 147.
Borkhut Mountains, 81.
Brahmins and English culture, 151. British civilisation in India, 151. Budjnurd, 33; and Bashkirs, 169. Burnes', Sir Alexander, mission, 8.
Calais to Calcutta, 26. Caspian Sea, The, 22.
Cavagnari, Sir Louis, Murder of, 69. Central Asia, England and Russia in,
Central Asian Railway, 26. Civilisation, Comparison of English and Russian, 165-189; natives disappear before Russia, 169; ef- forts of Muscovy inefficient, 171; condition of the tribes, 171-173; English influence in Asia, 175; an Indian's testimony to, 177. Coming events, 1.
Conquests of Russia, Early, 2-5. Continental writers, Attacks of, 204. Crimean war and its achievements, 142.
defence, 147; a bulwark for India, 148.
English indifference respecting Central Asia, 62.
English opinion variable, 191. English opinion, as to the value of India, 198.
Europeanism in the East, 190. European politics discussed by aliens, 201; sympathy with England in, 202.
Exactions of the Russians, 37.
Deregöz, 33.
Djam, 19.
Djenghis Khan, 3.
Dondukoff Korsakoff, General, 49. Dulcigno, Comedy of, 139.
Eastern Question, Solving the, 163. Egyptian Ophthalmy, 145. Elbirin-Kir, 81. Endedjan, 22. England in Egypt, 139. England's policy in Asia, 56; Franco- Russian designs on India, 57; how frustrated, 58; Lord Palmerston on, 62; indecision of British states- men respecting, 62; occupation of Khiva, 65; a neutral zone, 67; Russian view of, 71-72; the de- batable ground and, 76-78. English and Russian rivalry, 1. English character, Drawbacks of, 202. English critics, Attacks of, 204, 205. English defence of India, 124; sugges-
tions thereon, 128; change of policy necessary, 133; a feasible line of
Famine Commission in India, 178. Fazil Beg and the caravan to Merv, 44. Ferghana, Valley of, 22.
Frere, The late Sir Bartle, on Afghan- istan, 148; on Russian influence at Kabul, 158-160.
Frontier, Afghan, Delimitating Com- mission, 82; English members, 83, 84; Russian members, 85; M. de Giers' instructions, 86; Russian designs and English forbearance, 89; outbreak on the Khushk River, 97, 98; frontier regulations un- known, 98; diplomatic arrange- ments violated, 98, 99, 111.
Galkin's geographical report on Central Asia, 28.
Galtcha, or Persian mountaineers, 112. Geok-Tepe, Siege and capture of, 29;
slaughter at, 30; victory of Sko- beleff at, 32; material and moral advantage of, 26-38.
Gladstone, W. E., on Russian ex-
tension, 125. Goklans, 28.
Gortschakoff, Prince, 16, 65; circular of, 90.
Grand Duchy of Muscovy, 3. Griffin, Sir Lepel, on the military
strength of India, 157. Grodekoff, Colonel, at Herat, 122. Gundámuk, Treaty of, 70. Gurgan River, 28.
Hazreti-Turkestan, 14.
Herat, 9; Russian designs upon, 73; a wedge between Persia and Af- ghanistan, 77-81; Russia and the Afghan clans, 92; the ethnical fron- tier of, 89; Russian claims upon it unfounded, 93-95; Russian pledges valueless respecting it, 97; the key of the gate of India, 99; importance of, 100; distant from India, 127; distant from Penjdeh, 102; strategi- cal position of, 100; the town of, 103; founder of, 104; agricultural produce of, 106; water supply of, 107; aboriginal population of, 110, 111; situation of, 113; political and military value of, 113-117; former splendour of, 116; Russian chances of its conquest, 118; the power it would give, 120; effect on Turkish and Afghan clans, 121; commercial advantages considered, 122, 123. Heri-Rud, The, 77.
Hindoo Koosh, The, 114, 135.
Imperial policy in England, Champions of, 203; apathy respecting, 62, 145, 191, 204.
Increase of Russian influence in Asia,
India, Conquest of, 2; Russia in, 125; English in, 153; route to, 114; General Soboleff on English rule in, 160; Sir R. Temple on a de- fensive boundary for, 161; imperial relations of England with, 162; Russia's march on, 163; the key to, 163; Russia covets, 164; Eng- lish power in, 175; success of civilisation in, 176; an Oriental parable, 177, 178; Famine Com- mission in, 178; suppression of the thagi, dacoity, and soti in, 179; agricultural labour in, 180; irriga- tion canals, 181; famines in India, 183; education in, 184; railways in, 186; English rule preferred in, 188; reasons for England retain- ing, 190; trade with, 192; luke- warmness in England concerning, 199; population of, 198. Indifference to Foreign affairs in Eng- land, 62, 145, 191.
Keyanian Cap, The, 9.
Kheiber Pass, 147.
Khiva, 8; Russia and, 20; the Khan of and Russia, 43; massacre of Khivan Turkomans, 28; occcupa- tion of, 65; English advice to, 66. Khokand, 8; rebellion at, 21. Khorassan, 33.
Khudayar Khan, 17.
Kirghis steppes, 5.
Kirghises, 6; subdued, 14.
Kizil-Arvat, 34, 35.
Kizil-Takir, 28.
Komaroff, General, 43; feeler of, 47;
Koran of the Muscovite, 40.
Krasnovodsk, 27.
Kubbet Mountains, 34.
Kutchum Khan, 4.
Lazareff, General, 29.
Lessar, M., and his mission, 77–80;
on the debatable ground, 96, 97.
Lesseps, M., and the Asiatic railway, 26. Lomakin, General, 29. Lumsden, Sir Peter, 83.
Makhdum-Kuli, Prediction of, 40. Makhdum-Kuli Khan at Geok-Tepe
and Merv, 45; at Moscow, 46. Malleson, Colonel, on the armies of England and Russia, 136. Maruchak Plain, 77.
Marvin Chas., Services of, 29, 45, 53. Mehne, 34.
Merv, Its history and character, 42;
the Khan of Khokand and, 43; the story of its fall, 44-49; honours to Russian agents, 49; voluntary submission of, 48, 74, 77; a clever stroke of policy, 50, 51; import- ance of, strategically, 50-55. Meshed, 33. Mikhailofsk, 126.
Mohammedan Asiatics not to be trusted, 133; their opinion of Russia and England, 138; sym- pathy with co-religionists, 140; Mohammedans in India, 152-154. Moser, M. Henri, at Ashkabad, 48. Moslem and Russian supremacy, 156. Moslem society in India useful to England, 141.
Mongol irruptions, 3.
Muravieff's mission, 271.
Murakoff Col., and the Tedjend
Murder of Sir Louis Cavignari, 69. Murghab River, 42; position of, 77; affluents of, 78.
Namangan, Butchery of, 22. Nasrullah Khan, 8.
Nomads of the desert, 36.
crushed out by Russian civil- isers, 170.
Nurverdi Khan, Widow of, 50.
O'Donovan, Mr., in Merv, 83.
Orenburg to Tashkend, Railway from, 26.
Outworks for defence of India, 148. Oxus, 15, 26, 43.
Tartars, Krim and Nogai, 173.
Tashkend, Capture of, 15; Lord Pal- merston on the situation, 62. Tchardjui, 19.
Tchaush grapes, 105.
Tchekishlar, 28.
Tchernayeff, General, 14. Tchinovnik, 6.
Tchuvashians, a Turkish colony, 171. Teheran and Russia, 10.
Tekke-Turkomans, Massacre of, 28, 29; their character, 30-37; paci- fying the, 36; pillaging the, 37. Temple, Sir R., on the Afghans, 132. on a frontier on the
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