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British Agents in Afghanistan is a pamphlet by Sir Owen Tudor Burne that was privately printed in London in 1879 and formed part of the British debate over the origins of and justification for the Second Anglo-Afghan (1878‒80). Burne was an army officer who, after military service in India during the Sepoy Rebellion (1857‒59), held a number of posts in the government of India, including as private secretary to Earl Mayo, viceroy of India from 1869 to 1872, and to Lord Lytton, the viceroy from 1876 to 1880 ...