Saturday, January 25, 2014
The region lying immediately beyond the northern frontier of our Indian Empire and comprehensively designated Chinese Tartary, has during the last quarter of a century, from time to time, attaracted the attention of Europe, owing to the steady extension of the Russian dominion upon its northern borders.
This attention, at no time very fixed upon the mind of the public, received a fresh impetus by the events and issues of that remarkable revolution which in 1862-63 severed the connection of this region from the rest of Chinese Empire and in the following years led to the conquest of its southern portion by a successful adventurer from an adjoining principality.
It has now for us acquired special interest, no less by reason of the intercourse which, in the efforts to develop a trade in that direction, has sprung up between us in India and ruler of this newly –constituted state of Central Asia, than by that of the peculiar relations in which he stands to his Russian neighbor. And the questions naturally arise – what is the new principality of Kashghar ? And who is its founder Atalik Ghazi?
It is not my purpose in these pages to enter on the theme pages to enter on theme of Central Asian politics, nor to attempt an investigation of the causes which have conduced to the successful establishment of a new Muslim state on the ruins of the Chinese rule in this part of the Asiatic Continent: nor yet to inquire into the motives for the revival of a decayed Islam in this extreme limit of the Muslim polity of Central Asia.
Neither is it any part of my purpose in these pages to discuss the merits, or question the wisdom of one line of policy over another, in respect to the relations we are force of neighborhood involved in with the several states of Central Asia.
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