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Younghusband s Kashmir Sojourn || Rising Kashmir

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

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