By the start of the 19th century, the British East India Company had become the dominant power across the subcontinent. Britain came to realise the vast productive potential of India and sought to protect this asset by any means necessary. At the same time, Russia’s imperial expansion started to gain real momentum by the 1820s. Russia’s rise worried the British. This Great Game rivalry placed the mountainous Kingdom of Afghanistan in the middle. The ever ambitious Afghan ruler, Dost Mohammad Khan made every effort to take advantage of this predicament he found himself in. But in the end, his intrigues and plans were not wellreceived by the British whose paranoid belligerence lead them to invade Afghanistan in 1839.

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0:00 Intro
1:21 Great Game Context
5:01 Road to War 183538
8:52 British Invasion 183839
10:12 British Occupation 'Honeymoon' Period 183940
12:44 Afghan Uprising 184142
18:06 British Revenge & Pullout
19:52 Outro