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'Military Report on Russian Turkistan or Central Asia' [42v] (91/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (80 folios). It was created in 1905. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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74
Important
towns.
Native
feeling.
Khanates.
t
» Khiva (approximately)
Russian subjects in Khiva
Rokhara (approximately) -
Russian subjects in Bokhara
500,000
3,951
2,500,000
12,1£0
Estimated total population in'!
Russian Turkistan (ap- > 8,270,500 souls,
proximately). J _____________
The following details of certain important towns may
be of interest as showing their development (with one or
two exceptions) according to the census of 1897 and
more recent data of 1901 :—
1897.
1901.
Tashkend
- 156,414
163,264
Khokand -
- 82,054
66,604
Namangan
- 61,906
61,388
Samarkand
- 54,900
58,194
Andijan
- 46,690
49,682
Old Margilan-
- 36,592
42,855
Osh
- 36,474
37,397
Khojend
- 30,076
31,103
Vierni
- 22,982
22,982
Askhabad
19,428
22,935
Turkistan -
11,592
14,085
It is difficult to ascertain the actual state of feeling
on the part of tho natives towards the Russian Govern
ment. Though apparently satisfied with their lot, there
are (indications of a certain amount of secret or sullen
hostility. ‘ The mountaineers, and’ Turkomans, on the
Russo-Bersian frontier, occasionally damage the railway
line, hilt t<5 what extent Such acts of hostility might
he carried, ill certain eventualities, it is impossible to
3a y- , .
It is equally difficulty to arrive at the Russian
estimation of the various classes of natives subject to
them. One will say that the Tekkes are the best of
all, while the Sarts are unruly and troublesome ; another,
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A confidential report on Central Asia, compiled by Captain H H Dowding, Captain of the General Staff, War Office, 1905.
Contained within the report are chapters on the history, geography, administration, communications, resources, ethnography, and military of the region. Also included is a preface by Major-General J M Grierson, General Staff, War Office (folio 3), appendices (folios 63-78), including detailed information on the railways of the region, and a colour map of Central Asia (folio 81).
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- 1 volume (80 folios)
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The volume contains a table of contents (folios 4-6) which refers to the original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 81; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The file has one foliation anomaly, f 34a.
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- 'Military Report on Russian Turkistan or Central Asia'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:34v, 34ar:34av, 35r:79v, back-i, 81r:81v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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