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Paul's great game: Russia's plan to invade British India / Oye, David Schimmelpenninck van der   Journal Article
Oye, David Schimmelpenninck van der Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract This article examines the ill-fated Russian expedition to conquer British India in 1801 with a Cossack host via Central Asia. Undertaken by Emperor Paul I during his brief diplomatic dalliance with Napoleon, the enterprise proved highly unrealistic and was abandoned less than a month after it began. I pay special attention to the knowledge that officials in Saint Petersburg had about the regions to be traversed. I conclude that, despite British fears of a tsarist overland invasion of their South Asian possessions during much of the nineteenth century, this poorly planned mission was the only Russian attempt ever made.
Key Words Military Intelligence  Central Asia  India  Russia  Napoleonic Wars  Cossacks 
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STATUS OF ASIAN STUDIES AND THE FUTURE OF RUSSIAN SINOLOGY / KOBZEV, Artem   Journal Article
KOBZEV, Artem Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The objective duality of the world and humanity should correspond to the juxtaposition of Oriental and Western studies, but science and pedagogy know only the former, i.e., Orientalism. This monopoly was a consequence of the formation of the modern system of sciences in an era of global domination by the West, which presented the East as its opposite, the non-West, and/or interpreted its relations with it in value-asymmetric categories of culture and barbarism. The publication in 2006 of the Russian translation of E. Said's famous book Orientalism and the scientific and educational reforms of 2010-2013 led to a discussion among Russian Orientalists about the meaning of
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