Backwards or forwards?

There will be no Russian invasion of I ndia. .. .R ussia has long understood both our strength and our weakness. There will be no foolish raid as long as India is united in tranquillity and contentment under British rule. Russia well knows that such an attempt would only end in the entire destruction of the invaders. .. .T he danger then is imaginary. Herat is no more the key to India than is Tabreez, or Khiva, or Kokand, or Meshed. .. .N o, the dream is idle: England sdangers are in I ndia, not without; and we trust that it will be in India they will be met, and that there will be no third Afghan campaign. Such a move would be playing Russia sgame. We are safe while we hold our ground and do our duty Sir Henry Lawrence, in 1856 So far as the invasion of India in that quarter, it is the opinion of Her Majesty s Government that it is hardly practicable.
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