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By Alexander Morrison

Russian Rule in Samarkand makes use of a comparative method of research the constructions, body of workers, and ideologies of Russian imperialism in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the encompassing area as a case-study. The construction of a colonial management in primary Asia offered Russia with comparable difficulties to these confronted by way of the British in India, yet diversified methods to governance intended that the 2 regimes frequently stood in stark distinction to each other. whereas the Russian management was once characterized by way of corruption and inefficiency, British rule in India used to be even more violent, and its matters even more seriously taxed.

Opening with the historical past to the political state of affairs in relevant Asia and a story of Russian conquest itself, the e-book strikes directly to examine legit attitudes to Islam and to pre-colonial elites, and the earliest makes an attempt to set up a functioning method of profit assortment. Uncovering the non secular and ethnic composition of the army forms, and the social history, schooling and coaching of its team of workers, Alexander Morrison assesses the competence of those officials vis-á-vis their Anglo-Indian opposite numbers. next chapters examine the function of the so-called 'native management' in governing the nation-state and accumulating taxes, the try to administer the advanced structures of irrigation best from the Zarafshan and Syr-Darya rivers, and the character and features of the Islamic judiciary below colonial rule.

Based on broad archival learn in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing infrequent resource fabric translated from the unique Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand might be of curiosity to all these attracted to the background of the Russian Empire and ecu Imperialism extra ordinarily.

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Viii Timur Beisembiev, ‘Farghana’s Contacts with India in the 18th and 19th Centuries (According to the Kokand Chronicles)’, JAH, 28, (1994), 124–34. ix Punjab, Sindh, and the North-Western Provinces were areas acquired and held by military conquest rather than by commercial penetration. Their annexation came fairly late, between 1803 and 1849, in the case of Sindh and Punjab only twenty years before the Russian annexation of the settled areas of Turkestan. Even in areas with a low Muslim population, where the Mughal heritage was weak, the basic problems of a colonial administration remained the same: how to control an alien society, raise revenue, and administer justice without constant (and expensive) recourse to the bayonet upon which, ultimately, both regimes rested.

Cultural, Economic and Political Links (Calcutta, 2001); Scott Levi, ‘India, Russia and the Transformation of the Central Asian Caravan Trade’, JESHO, 42: 4, (Nov. 1999), 519–48 and The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550–1900 (Leiden, 2002). vii Richard Foltz, Mughal India and Central Asia (Karachi, 1998). viii Timur Beisembiev, ‘Farghana’s Contacts with India in the 18th and 19th Centuries (According to the Kokand Chronicles)’, JAH, 28, (1994), 124–34. ix Punjab, Sindh, and the North-Western Provinces were areas acquired and held by military conquest rather than by commercial penetration.

Skrine, and E. Denison Ross, The Heart of Asia (London, 1899), 414. xviii This remark was originally made by Skobelev to the British journalist Charles Marvin in 1881 and recorded in the latter’s The Russian Advance Towards India (London, 1882), 98–9; it was later repeated by, among others, Curzon, Russia in Central Asia, 85. 476 p. 1. xx The American consul at St Petersburg, Schuyler was an acute and well-informed observer, who enquired closely into the fledgling Russian administration which was being established under General von Kaufman when he made his journey in 1871–2.

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