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Southern Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier of India is a pamphlet containing two separate works, “Southern Afghanistan. The Tal-Chotiali Route,” and a paper entitled “The North-West Frontier of India.” The first work is a reprint of two articles that appeared originally in Army and Navy Magazine arguing the importance of the Tal‒Chotiali route as a link between southern Afghanistan and British India. The author, Griffin W. Vyse, advocates the permanent stationing of British troops at Tal (in present-day Pakistan) in order to control the eastern terminus of this route ...