Writing Travel in Central Asian History

Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Writing, Travel, and the Global History of Central Asia \ Nile Green 1 Part I. Identity, Information, and Trade, c. 1500–1850 1 Early Modern Circulation between Central Asia and India and the Question of “Patriotism” \ Sanjay Subrahmanyam 43 2 Prescribing the Boundaries of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Russian Diplomatic Missions to Central Asia \ Ron Sela 69 3 Central Asians in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples \ Laura Hostetler 89 4 The Steppe Roads of Central Asia and the Persian Captivity Narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi Ashtiyani \ Abbas Amanat and Arash Khazeni 113 Part II. Empire, Archaeology, and the Arts, c. 1850–1940 5 “The Rubicon between the Empires”: The River Oxus in the Nineteenth-Century British Geographical Imaginary \ Kate Teltscher 135 6 Buddhist Relics from the Western Regions: Japanese Archaeological Exploration of Central Asia \ Imre Galambos 152 7 A Russian Futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov’s Travelogue in Verse \ Ronald Vroon 170 8 Narrating the Ichkari Soundscape: European and American Travelers on Central Asian Women’s Lives and Music \ Tanya Merchant 193 Index 213 Contributors 219 This page intentionally left blank ...