M. WASEEM RAJA
The Traveller and the Great Game; It was around 100 years ago a British army officer Sir Francis Edward Younghusband,
a British
Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer is chosen for the
task of exploring the valley of Kashmir for a handy knowledge of the
‘Switzerland of the East,’ not for any pleasure sport but for very strategic
purpose of thwarting the Geo-political
‘Great Game’ played in Central Asia as the ‘Russian Juggernaut’ was fast
advancing towards the South-Central Asia
and threatening the very ‘Jewel in the British Crown’ i.e.; Colonial British
India. The 19
th
century clash between the two giant was hotting up in the beginning of 20th