ABSTRACT
Since this work is aimed at the study of the role of the Khozeimeh amirdom in the Anglo-Russian Great Game of geopolitics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the study of the evolution of political geography of the lands on which this game was played out, and as the partitioning of Sistan and Baluchistan in early 1870s was justified in terms of political developments of the post-Nader Shah events in Khorasan, no positive assessment of the evolution of the said political geography can escape an adequate study of these developments. In other words, since the partitioning of lands forming the chessboard on which the Great Game was played was, in reality, but an aftermath of the partitioning of Khorasan and the creation of Afghanistan in the preceding two decades or so, a better understanding of these events is crucial.
