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Book Synopsis Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth by : Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth
Download or read book Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth written by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Pundits written by Derek Waller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by : Bo Beolens
Download or read book The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles written by Bo Beolens and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History by : Rian Thum
Download or read book The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History written by Rian Thum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis 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 by : Sir Aurel Stein
Download or read book 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 written by Sir Aurel Stein and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the United Service Institution of India Library by : United Service Institution of India. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the United Service Institution of India Library written by United Service Institution of India. Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holy War in China written by Hodong Kim and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Sotheran's Price Current of Literature by : Henry Sotheran Ltd
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Ancient and Early Medieval Kingdoms of the Pamir Region of Central Asia by : Muzaffar Zoirshoevich Zoolshoev
Download or read book Ancient and Early Medieval Kingdoms of the Pamir Region of Central Asia written by Muzaffar Zoirshoevich Zoolshoev and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This focused study is one of the few analytical resources in English that covers the ancient and early medieval history of one of the least studied areas of the vast mountainous Pamir region of Central Asia: Shughnān. The book brings together scattered fragments of information from a wide range of early Greek, Chinese, Persian, and Arabic sources, the accounts of early European travellers and the scholarly contributions of Soviet and post-Soviet authors, as well as personal accounts and oral history material from the region. Drawing on historical, archaeological, linguistic, and ethnographic data, it provides a holistic overview of the kingdom of Shughnān. It also attempts, for the first time, to identify and locate the town of Kǔhán, which the Chinese historical chronicle, the Táng Shū (Book of the Tang Dynasty, 618–907 CE) describes as the ‘first capital’ of Shughnān. Many archaeological sites are examined and offered as potential candidates for the location of the town of Kǔhán, providing a foundation for future archaeological and ethnolinguistic research in the area. Ancient and Early Medieval Kingdoms of the Pamir Region of Central Asia: Historical Shughnān and its Lost Capital is suitable for students, scholars, and historians studying ancient and early medieval Central Asia, particularly the Pamir region, as well as those interested in Central Asian history and archaeology more broadly.
Book Synopsis Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by : Edward Whymper
Download or read book Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator written by Edward Whymper and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis v.2, supplementary appendix. Imprint varies; v.2 London, John Murray, 1891 by : Edward Whymper
Download or read book v.2, supplementary appendix. Imprint varies; v.2 London, John Murray, 1891 written by Edward Whymper and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper by : Edward Whymper
Download or read book Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper written by Edward Whymper and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies: Vocabularies by : Thomas Wright
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies: Vocabularies written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The University Library. Papers Contributed to the Cambridge University Gazette, 1869 by : Henry Bradshaw
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Book Synopsis A Madagascar Bibliography by : James Sibree
Download or read book A Madagascar Bibliography written by James Sibree and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
