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Russian rule in Samarkand, 1868-1910 : a comparison with British India /

Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much source material translated from Russian, this text uses a comparative approach to examine the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian rule in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morrison, Alexander, 1978-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Samarqand viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan) > Politics and government > 19th century.
Samarqand viloi︠a︡ti (Uzbekistan) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Local government > Uzbekistan > Samarqand viloi︠a︡ti > History > 19th century.
Local government > Uzbekistan > Samarqand viloi︠a︡ti > History > 20th century.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > General.
Local government
Politics and government
Uzbekistan > Samarqand viloi︠a︡ti
Uzbekistan > historia.
1800-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The setting
  • Religion and the problem of Islam
  • The creation of a local administration and the abolition of amlakdari
  • The military bureaucracy
  • The 'living wall' : native administration in Samarkand
  • Irrigation
  • Qazis and the judiciary.