CONSTRUCTING THE CONCEPT OF THE "GREAT GAME"IN CENTRAL ASIA

Inomjon Mamadaliev

doi:10.71191/centerasia2024.v64.n2.019

Authors

Inomjon Mamadaliev Khujand State University Author https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5794-1913

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71191/centerasia2024.v64.n2.019

Keywords:

Great Game, geopolitics, geostrategy, Central Asia, East and West, emissaries and agents, colonization

Abstract

The study of the problem of Anglo-Russian relations in Central Asia and the Middle East has a fairly solid history. Various aspects of this issue have been considered in both domestic and foreign historiography. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, when the events of Anglo-Russian relations ceased to cause fierce disputes, quite serious scientific research began to come out, for which the source base was much wider, and certain results of the studied processes were evident.

Kipling's famous expression "East and West will never come together" has been confirmed many times, but has been refuted many times, especially by researchers of modern and modern times. And this is understandable, because the process of the most intense rapprochement, or rather active contacts, despite the fact that it was the result of wars, began in the XIX century. This was determined, first of all, by the colonization of Central Asia by the Russian Empire. This issue has almost always been studied one-sidedly: in the Soviet period, as unambiguously positive, it was called the annexation of Central Asia to Russia, which brought civilization and culture here, as it was believed, in the modern period – as unambiguously negative, and is interpreted as the transformation of Central Asia - called Turkestan in the colonial period into a colony and its economic enslavement.

Author Biography

Inomjon Mamadaliev, Khujand State University

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

Department of World History

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