| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 3, 2016 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Central Asia Lecture Series
In the first half of the 18th century, the Bukharan Khanate experienced a crisis that included devastating invasions from the north and the south, a severe fiscal crisis, rebellion and revolution. Setting aside the long-held belief that the crisis was caused by isolation from early modern globalizing trends, this talk will advance a new theory, or set of theories, to explain what caused the crisis, why it unfolded when it did, and how globalizing forces impacted early modern Central Asia and contributed to the rise of the Khanate of Khoqand.
Scott Levi is associate professor of Central Asian history at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Indian Diaspora and Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900 (Leiden, 2002), co-editor (with Ron Sela) of Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Sources (Bloomington, 2010), and has recently published Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road (Gurgaon, 2015). This talk will address conclusions drawn from his current research project, which aims to produce a book tentatively titled, Central Asia on the Frontier of Empires: The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709–1876.
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