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THE SILK ROAD: Trade, Caravan Serais, Cultural Exchanges and Power Games

Edited By :- Mansura Haidar

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Pages: xxvi+330

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-528-7

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 28cm

Product Year: 2014

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From antiquity to the present day, Central Asia has all along been an important region for India?politically, strategically, culturally and commercially. The region played an important role sometimes serving as a rendezvous or extension of India?s spiritual acquisitions, and sometimes playing as a buffer state or a ground for Great Game or Neo-Great Game affecting India?s political interests in a big way. The Silk Road not only developed and enhanced trade and commerce between the East and the West, but was also a significant factor in facilitating cultural and social interaction across continents. Given the historic and cultural importance of this trans-continental route, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), along with the Eurasia Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India had organised an International Seminar on ?Cities, Roads and Caravansarais? An Emblem of Relations through the Ages? which was held during 8-12 January 2008. This volume contains the proceedings of the seminar. ?Looking back? is an age-old maxim for ?going ahead??as it is the past which often sustains and inspires the future. The cultural encounters at the Silk Road, imparting a continued impetus to the growth and development of ?Dialogue between Civilizations??ideally remain to be in the category of cross-fertilization and not negotiations. Whether by wars or through cultural linkages and brisk exchanges and interactions, India and its surrounding regions had richly contributed to the mosaic of regional and global cultures. It is here that the real significance of this research work lies.

Foreword v Keynote Address xi Introduction xvii Acknowledgements xxi List of Contributors xxxiii SECTION-I THE GREAT SILK ROAD, CARAVAN SERAIS, AND TRADE ROUTES 1. The Silk Route 3 ? Chandra Pant 2. The Silk Route and Historical Memory of Central Asian People 14 ? Sattar F. Mazhitov 3. The Silk Route and the History of Polyconfessionality 21 Formation in Kazakhstan ? Sheikh Absattar Hadji Derbisali 4. Some Early Travellers of the Silk Road 26 ? Saroj Kumar Chaudhuri 5. The Routes between India and Central Asia (16th-17th Century) 35 ? Shoh Niyoz Musoev 6. Tashkent on the Crossroads of the Great Silk Road 40 ? D.A. Alimova 7. The Most Ancient City of Kyrgyzstan Osh in the Sisteme of 46 the Great Silk Road ? Antonina Zaharova 8. Reviving Indo-Central Asian Silk Route Links Through Kashmir 54 ? Mushtaq A. Kaw 9. Indian Caravan Serais 67 ? Pierre Lebigre 10. Caravan Serais in Mughal India 81 ? K.K. Muhammed 11. Some Problems of the History of Uzbekistan?s Caravan Serais 100 (First Half of the 17th-19th Century) ? Gul?chehra Azizovna Agzamovna 12. Silk Road and the Role of the Caravan Serais on the Trade and 106 Social Life: Main Roads Connecting to the Silk Road? Case of Mid-Anatolia ? M. Metin H?lag? and G?khan Bolat SECTION-II ANCIENT TRADITIONS, ART AND CULTURE 13. The Horse on Silk Road and in Kyrgyz Traditional Culture 133 ? Bubuira Akmoldoeva 14. Costume Jewellery in the Turkish Society of South Siberia as 138 Delivered Through the Silk Road during the Middle Ages ? Y.S. Khudyakov and K.Y. Belinskaya 15. Ancient and Medieval Lebap (the Amudarja Basin within 142 Turkmenistan Borders) on the Great Silk Route ? A.A. Burkhanov 16. History, Language and Culture of the Balochs in Central Asia 158 ? Yar Muhammad Badini 17. Cultural and Literary Interactions between India 163 and Uzbekistan ? Qamar Rais 18. The Function of Religion and Culture in Relations 170 between Turkey and Central Asia ? Davut Birg?l 19. Exchanges in the Science of Music as Depicted in a Rare 177 Source on Ajam and Indian Music ? Askarali Rajabov 20. Adab Literature or the Case of ?Abd All?h Ibn 182 al-Muqaffa??s Works ? Baian Rayhanova 21. India: The Common Chain in the Spiritual Life in 189 the Works of Nicholas Roerich and Boris Georgiev ? Blagovesta Ivanova 22. Historical Relationship between the Shawls of Gurin and Iran 202 ? Imir SECTION-III TUSSLE FOR POWER: REFORMS, POLITICS, MODERNIZATION 23. The Battle of Ankara: An Evaluation of Bayezid?s Political 217 and Strategic Mistakes in the Rout of Ankara in AD 1404 ? S?leyman Demirci 24. Sufis as Mediators between India and Bukhara after 1647 228 ? Audrey Burton 25. Exchanges and Interactions in the Political and 251 Commercial Spheres between Bukhara and India and Other Countries (During the First Half of 17th Century to Mid-18th Century) ? Abdukahar Saidov 26. Central Asian Nomads and Eastern Turkestan Cities in 256 16th-18th Centuries ? Anvarbek Mokeev 27. Messenger Services in the Mongol Empire 261 ? Mohd. Rafiuddin Makhdumi 28. Ethnic Turks in Tajikistan and Afghanistan 272 ? Kashinath Pandita 29. Alexander the Great, the Sakas and Timur in the New 284 Cultures of Independence of the Central Asian Countries ? Vincent Fourniau 30. Constitutionalism Beyond Frontier from Calcutta to 293 Tehran En Route Bukhara ? Touraj Atabaki 31. Malaya?s Response to the Rise of Kemal and the 309 Creation of Modern Turkey ? Md. Redzwan 32. Pakistan and the New Great Game 326 ? Azmat Hayat Khan

Professor Mansura Haidar, former Chairperson, Department of History; Coordinator, Centre of Advanced Studies in History; and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, dedicated her life exclusively to the study, teaching and research in the sphere of Indo-Central and West Asia, Turco-Islamic and Eurasian History and Culture. Being well-versed and proficient in several relevant languages of the area of her choice, and having undertaken painstaking research work in the best libraries of the world, the author has so far contributed over 200 articles published in reputed national and international journals and scholarly productions in different languages. She has authored thirteen books in addition to having edited three. She is presently associated with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi as Advisor and In-charge, Central and West Asian Unit.

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