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‘Alien’ Lamas: Russian Policy toward Foreign Buddhist Clergy in the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (Inner Asia, 2012)

This article analyses the Russian policy towards foreign Buddhist clergy who penetrated into the Russian Empire from Mongolia and Tibet between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on archive materials, ...
‘Applied Orientalism’ in British India and Tsarist Turkestan

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2009-07)

‘We cannot promise to those who may choose Oriental scholarship, that they shall find themselves abreast, in all the various high-roads of life which lead to profit and distinction, with the men who shall have devoted ...
Camels and Colonial Armies. The Logistics of warfare in Central Asia in the early 19th century

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2014)

This article explores the use of camels for baggage transport by European colonial armies in the nineteenth century. It focuses in particular on two episodes: the Russian winter expedition to Khiva, and the march of the ...
Central Asia as a part of the Russian Empire

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2011)

An excessively lengthy review article analysing the collectively-authored volume 'Tsentral'naya Aziya v Sostave Rossiiskoi Imperii', published by 'Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie' in 2007
FACT-TRACKING BELIEF AND THE BACKWARD CLOCK: A REPLY TO ADAMS, BARKER AND CLARKE

WILLIAMS, JOHN (Manuscrito, 2018-09-08)

In “The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, and Safety” (2015), Neil Sinhababu and I gave Backward Clock, a counterexample to Robert Nozick’s (1981) truth-tracking analysis of knowledge. In “Knowledge as Fact-Tracking True ...
Introduction

Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (Etudes Mongoles et Siberiennes, Centrasiatiques et Tibetaines, 2016)

Present-day scholarship on the Buryats, or Buryat-Mongols, consciously or otherwise considers the people in question and the areas they inhabit as a marginal part or periphery of the Mongolian or Russian worlds ; the logic ...
The Ismaili of Central Asia

Beben, Daniel (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History., 2018)

The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili ...
Metropole, Colony, and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2012)

This article reviews recent literature on legal and civic ideas of citizenship within the Russian empire, arguing that much of it fails to take into account the many legal and administrative inequalities which existed ...
A NATION’S HOLY LAND: KAZAKHSTAN’S LARGE-SCALE NATIONAL PROJECT TO MAP ITS SACRED GEOGRAPHY

Tsyrempilov, Nikolay; Bigozhin, Ulan; Zhumabayev, Batyrkhan (Nationalities Papers, 2022)

This article focuses on the project Sacred Geography of Kazakhstan, launched in 2017 in Kazakhstan as part of the nationwide program Ruqani Zhangyru (Modernization of Spirituality). The officially stated goal of the project ...
‘Nechto Eroticheskoe’, 'Courir après l'ombre'? – logistical imperatives and the fall of Tashkent, 1859 – 1865

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2014-05)

This article explores the debates that preceded the Russian conquest of Tashkent in 1865. It argues that none of the explanations usually given for this – the ‘men on the spot’, ‘cotton hunger’, or the Great Game with ...
A neonatal perspective on Homo erectus brain growth

Cofran, Zachary; DeSilva, Jeremy M. (Journal of Human Evolution, 2015-04-01)

Abstract The Mojokerto calvaria has been central to assessment of brain growth in Homo erectus, but different analytical approaches and uncertainty in the specimen's age at death have hindered consensus on the nature of ...
Noble Paganism. Orientalist Discourse on Tibetan Buddhism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Polemic Literature

Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (Inner Asia, 2016)

Tibetan Buddhism, in the eyes of Orthodox Christian polemicists, was always seen as a harmful paganism, and fifighting against this ‘superstition’ was a high priority. Based on analysis of nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox ...
On the Local Origins of the Soviet Attack on “Religious” Waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927)

Penati, Beatrice (Acta Slavica Iaponica, 2015)

This article studies when, how, and by whom the decision to nationalise land properties the rent from which supported mosques, shrines, and hostels (rather than schools) was first taken in Soviet Uzbekistan. Through a ...
On the Soviet discovery of rural Central Asia. The Karp commission in context

Penati, Beatrice (Revue Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 2013)

In 1925, the USSR communist party’s Central Asian Bureau ordered an inquiry on the countryside, resulting in the series The Modern Central Asian Village. It combined pre-revolutionary methods with Soviet attention to social ...
Peasant settlers and the ‘civilizing mission’ in Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2015)

This article provides an introduction to one of the lesser-known examples of European settler colonialism, the settlement of European (mainly Russian and Ukrainian) peasants in Southern Central Asia (Turkestan) in the late ...
The Role of Experts in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Limits of Their Epistemic Authority in Democracy

Lavazza, Andrea; Farina, Mirko (Frontiers Media, 2020-07-14)

In the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, medical experts (virologists, epidemiologists, public health scholars, and statisticians alike) have become instrumental in suggesting policies to counteract the spread of coronavirus. Given ...
Russia, Khoqand, and the search for a "Natural" Frontier, 1863–1865

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2014)

Abstract Russian expansion into Central Asia in the nineteenth century is usually seen either as the product of lobbying by big capitalist interests in Moscow or as a wholly unplanned process driven by “men on the spot” ...
Russian Rule in Turkestan and the Example of British India ca1865 - 1917

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2006)

This article argues that Russia's Empire in Central Asia is best understood in comparison with the other Western Colonial Empires of the nineteenth century, specifically Britain's Indian Empire. It examines nineteenth-century ...
The Sangho in the Age of Degradation. Responses of the Russian Buddhists to the Russian Revolution and Civil War

Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019-01)

The Buriat Buddhists who constituted the majority of the Buddhist population of the former Russian Empire did not stay away from the revolutionary events. The secular segment of the Buriat society viewed the collapse of ...
“Sowing the Seed of National Strife in This Alien Region”: The Pahlen Report and Pereselenie in Turkestan, 1908–1910

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2012)

This article examines the institutional background to the decision to send Senator Count K. K. Pahlen's Commission of Inspection to Turkestan in 1908. It concentrates on the divisive issue of 'pereselenie', or peasant ...