Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia

Download or read book Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia written by Thomas Welsford and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the seventeenth century, a new dynastic party established authority across Central Asia. In Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia, Thomas Welsford offers the first detailed account of how and why this happened. By examining some of the ways in which various social groupings helped to facilitate the Tūqāy-Tīmūrids’ acquisition of power, Welsford considers how such an instance of dynastic change might reflect the shifting loyalties, beliefs and preferences of an often overlooked wider subject population.