Author: Sir Thomas Douglas ForsythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamir
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth
Author: Sir Thomas Douglas ForsythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamir
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385253292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Pundits
Author: Derek WallerPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.
The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
Author: Bo BeolensPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401355
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Easy to use and filled with addictive--and highly useful--information about the people whose names will be carried into the future on the backs of the world's reptiles, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike.
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History
Author: Rian ThumPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067496702X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr—the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet—have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing’s official national narrative. Rian Thum argues that the roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage dominated understandings of the past. Beyond broadening our knowledge of tensions between the Uyghurs and the Chinese government, this meditation on the very concept of history probes the limits of human interaction with the past. Uyghur historical practice emerged from the circulation of books and people during the Qing Dynasty, when crowds of pilgrims listened to history readings at the tombs of Islamic saints. Over time, amid long journeys and moving rituals, at oasis markets and desert shrines, ordinary readers adapted community-authored manuscripts to their own needs. In the process they created a window into a forgotten Islam, shaped by the veneration of local saints. Partly insulated from the rest of the Islamic world, the Uyghurs constructed a local history that is at once unique and assimilates elements of Semitic, Iranic, Turkic, and Indic traditions—the cultural imports of Silk Road travelers. Through both ethnographic and historical analysis, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History offers a new understanding of Uyghur historical practices, detailing the remarkable means by which this people reckons with its past and confronts its nationalist aspirations in the present day.
Text, with descriptive list of antiques by F. H. Andrews, seventy-two illustrations in text, and appendices by L. D. Barnett, S. W. Bushell, E. Chavannes, A. H. Church, A. H. Francke, L. de Lóczy, D. S. Margoliouth, E. J. Rapson, F. W. Thomas
Author: Sir Aurel SteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hotan (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Catalogue of the United Service Institution of India Library
Author: United Service Institution of India. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Holy War in China
Author: Hodong KimPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804767238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, in northwest China, making international headlines, and introducing many to tensions in the area. But conflict in the region has deep roots. Now available in paperback, Holy War in China remains the first comprehensive and balanced history of a late nineteenth-century Muslim rebellion in Xinjiang, which led to the establishment of an independent Islamic state under Ya'qub Beg. That independence was lost in 1877, when the Qing army recaptured the region and incorporated it into the Chinese state, known today as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Hodong Kim offers readers the first English-language history of the rebellion since 1878 to be based on primary sources in Islamic languages as well as Chinese, complemented by British and Ottoman archival documents and secondary sources in Russian, English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, and Turkish. His pioneering account of past events offers much insight into current relations.
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Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd