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L’Afghanistan: les Russes aux portes de l’Inde (Afghanistan: The Russians at the gates of India) is a comprehensive analysis of Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia in the 19th century. The book is intended to help explain this rivalry to a French audience. The author is Charles Simond, an alias for Paul Adolphe van Cleemputte (1837–1916), a French-Belgian publicist, journalist, and novelist. The book was published in Paris in May 1885, two months after the Panjdeh incident, to which reference is made in the introduction. The incident involved ...