ABSTRACT
The Great Game of geopolitics played out by Britain and Russia in the nineteenth century has undoubtedly made an everlasting mark on the political geography of South, Central and West Asia. The rise in political vigour of the British and Russian Empires in the eastern territories of the federated Persian Empire coincided with the diminishing of the ancient federative system of Iran, and this state of affairs resulted in a political vacuum in those areas. Both Britain and Russia worked hard to exploit this vacuum by trying to remould the existing organization of space there to suite their own geopolitical designs.
