Articles

Jamshidi: Migration’s Processes in the Russian-Afghan Relations in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century

Vostok/Oriens '2014, №5

 
The article analyses the role of migration processes in the Russian-Afghan relations in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It tells about the Jamshidi as an ethnic group of Northern Afghanistan, one of the four major Aimag tribes, who fled in 1908 from Afghanistan to the territory of Russian Turkistan. Jamshidi’ flight and their settlement in this region of Turkestan led to a sharp deterioration of Russian-Afghan relations. The article traces the difficult Jamshidis’ fate that they had not only in Afghanistan but also in Russia.

Keywords: Afghanistan, Russia, Great Britain, migration, Jamshidi tribe, Afghans, Turkestan

Pages: С. 43–54