Abstract

Our Future Highway to India

The article focuses on the book "Our Future Highway to India," by Verney Lovett Cameron. Commander Cameron's journey was begun in September, 1878, when jingoism was at its height, the Anglo-Turkish convention had transpired, and the Chamberlain embassy had been refused admittance to Afghanistan, his expedition, though unofficial, was in sympathy with the popular sentiment of the day, and everywhere he moved in Syria he had almost flattering testimony of the great expectations of administrative reform which the news of the convention with England had inspired in the long-suffering victims of Turkish misrule in the far East. The present narrative, on the contrary, is published to what it is not too much to call a different England, in the midst of the difficult retreat from Afghanistan, and on the eve of a naval demonstration against Turkey directed by a British admiral.