Central Asia from Khans to Stans (spring 2019) by https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli This is a space to ask questions, compare key ideas, and share your curiosity. en-us 2019-01-27 16:54:46 UTC 2026-01-11 05:53:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886188 I believe that a lot of history is focused on European studies and that is why Asia is interesting to me ]]> 2019-01-28 12:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886188 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886463 I have chosen this module because it is a chance to learn about a part of history that I haven’t previously studied.

]]> 2019-01-28 12:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886463 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886502 I have chosen this module because it’s a new area of history I’ve never studied before ]]> 2019-01-28 12:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886502 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886518 I am interested in Central Asia because I think in order to understand just how the development of Centeal Asia over time has affected the world as a whole and I think to understand international relations we have to understand Central Asia.]]> 2019-01-28 12:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886518 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886551 Chose this one because I don't know a lot about the subject and would like to know more to expand my knowledge]]> 2019-01-28 13:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886551 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886583 Not an area I have looked at previously so quite intrigued to learn about it and expand my interest.]]> 2019-01-28 13:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886583 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886655 I have chosen this module as it is different and sounds very interesting. It is a place in the world I have never studied.]]> 2019-01-28 13:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886655 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886662 I have chosen this module because Asia differs from Europe and I’m hoping it will give a historical context of Asia ]]> 2019-01-28 13:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886662 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886878 Never studied the history of the region in depth, watched Marco Polo and Extra History vids on YT on topics we look at and its quite interesting 

]]> 2019-01-28 13:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/324886878 Thanks to all the students who have left messages. Don't you have questions from w1? https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/326801399
This is a place where week 2 will bring us: https://archnet.org/sites/3057/media_contents/1530#item_associations
And this is another (during the seminar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcBvVIl2ozE
]]> 2019-02-01 17:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/326801399 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/327705778 Could we have more of a background on Ozbek please?]]> 2019-02-05 11:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/327705778 Today we looked at Zunghar involvement in the political balance between two sufi factions, the Ishaqiyya and the Afaqiyya, in Kashgaria. beatrice_penati https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/329924387 The mausoleum of Afaq (Apaq) Khoja mentioned in the readings looks like this: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q617328
For a survey of current events in that region (nowadays Xinjiang in the PRC), see this recent peer-reviewed article: Adrian Zenz (2018) ‘Thoroughly reforming them towards a healthy heart attitude’: China’s political re-education campaign in Xinjiang, Central Asian Survey, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2018.1507997]]> 2019-02-11 15:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/329924387 Kokand (1) beatrice_penati https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330865132 The khan's palace]]> 2019-02-13 15:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330865132 Kokand (2) beatrice_penati https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330865701 The dakhma-i shahan, or the "shrine of the kings": the Ming dynasty in Kokand sought legitimisation by setting up its own 'family' burial ground - and by 'inventing' a genealogy to Chinggis Khan via Babur]]> 2019-02-13 15:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330865701 Kokand (3) beatrice_penati https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330867299 To please the 'ulema' and try to make them digest the 'impious taxes' used to fund mercenary troops, the Kokand khans embarked in a policy of sumptious mosque construction in Kokand - and from 1809 in Tashkent.]]> 2019-02-13 15:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330867299 Kokand (4) beatrice_penati https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330868699 An interview with the author of the most recent (and quite accessible) volume on the history of the Kokand Khanate, Scott C. Levi (the Ohio State University).]]> 2019-02-13 15:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/330868699 Exam https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/337286824 In the exam are we given the gobbet commentary we have to analyse or can we choose which ones we want to do before the exam?]]> 2019-03-03 22:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/337286824 Kazakh Famine c_dean4 https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/340544340 What are the best books and articles for research on the Kazakh famine for the presentation?]]> 2019-03-12 17:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/340544340 Mangyt beatrice_penati https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/360401059 2019-05-15 15:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/360401059 Mangyt & Nadir Shah beatrice_penati https://padlet.com/beatrice_penati/rhaucc6wapli/wish/360401073 In response to a student's query on this:
Now, you should know that the Toqay-Timurids were the last Chingissid dynasty that ruled over Mawara'nnahr, specifically from Bukhara. Although they were not Shibanid, they claimed they had come from another Jochid branch based in Astrakhan. This is why they're also known as Astrakhanid.
The lecture explains (using the excerpt of the 'Ubaydulla-nama as a source) the reasons for discontent of the Uzbeks against the later Toqay-Timurids. Remember that "Uzbek" means, in the XVII-XVIII c. and in Mawara'nnahr, 'members of the tribal military elite'. The Mangyt were one of these Uzbek tribes, and one of them already had the role of atalyq, or regent, of the khan. What happened when Nadir Shah invaded is described in Kashmiri's account.

The Mangyt acted as intermediaries and ended up as the 'agents' of Nadir Shah's influence in Bukhara after its departure. They also later on imitated several aspects of Nadir Shah's rule, in particular the establishment of a standing army. However, the new Mangyt dynasty did not marginalise the palace bureaucracy which Uzbeks in general had criticised: as it emerges from the excerpts from the Majma al-Arkam and Karminagi's account of the enthronement in 1740, the bureaucracy was maintained, and bureucrats (the court) were there at the enthronement.
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