Khanate of Kokand

1709–1876 state in Central Asia

Khanate of Kokand

خان‌نشین خوقند
Khānnishīn-i-Khoqand
خوقند خانليغى
Khoqand Khaanlighi

1709–1876

Flag of Kokand

The Khanate of Kokand in the year 1830

Status| Khanate
Capital| Kokand
Common languages| Persian (official, court)[a][b][c]
Chagatai language[1]
Religion

| Sunni Islam
Demonym(s)| Khoqandi
Government| Monarchy
Khan|

• 1709–1722

| Shahrukh Khan

• 1876

| Nasruddin Khan
History|

• Established

| 1709

• Disestablished

| 1876

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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The Khanate of Kokand[d] was a Central Asian polity[2] in the Fergana Valley centred on the city of Kokand between 1709 and 1876. It was ruled by the Ming tribe of Uzbeks.[3] Its territory is today divided between Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.

## History

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The Khanate of Kokand was established in 1709 when the emir of the Ming tribe of Uzbeks, Shahrukh declared independence from the Khanate of Bukhara, establishing a state in the eastern part of the Fergana Valley. He built a citadel as his capital in the small town of Kokand, thus starting the Khanate of Kokand. His son, Abdul Kahrim Bey, and grandson, Narbuta Bey, enlarged the citadel, but both were forced to submit as a protectorate, and pay tribute to, the Qing dynasty between 1774 and 1798.[4][page needed][5][page needed]

Narbuta Bey’s son Alim was both ruthless and efficient. He hired a mercenary army of Ghalcha highlanders, and conquered the western half of the Fergana Valley, including Khujand and Tashkent. He was assassinated by his brother Umar in 1811. Umar's son, Mohammed Ali (Madali Khan), ascended to the throne in 1822 at the age of 12. During his reign, the Khanate of Kokand reached its greatest territorial extent. The Kokand Khanate also housed the Khojas of Kashgar like Jahangir Khoja. In 1841, the British officer Captain Arthur Conolly failed to persuade the various khanates to put aside their differences, in an attempt to counter the growing penetration of the Russian Empire into the area. In November 1841, Captain Conolly left Kokand for Bukhara in an ill-fated attempt to rescue fellow officer Colonel Charles Stoddart, and both were executed on 24 June 1842 by the order of Emir Nasrullah Khan of Bukhara.[6][4][page needed]

Following this, Madali Khan, who had received Conolly in Kokand, and who had also sought an alliance with Russia, lost the trust of Nasrullah. The Emir, encouraged by the conspiratorial efforts of several influential figures in Kokand (including the commander in chief of its army), invaded the Khanate in 1842. Shortly thereafter he executed Madali Khan, his brother, and Omar Khan's widow, the famed poet Nodira. Madali Khan's cousin, Shir Ali, was installed as the Khan of Kokand in June 1842.[7] Over the next two decades, the khanate was weakened by a bitter civil war, which was further exacerbated by Bukharan and Russian incursions. During this period, the Kyrgyz tribes also broke away, forming the Kara-Kyrgyz Khanate under the leadership of Ormon Khan. Shir Ali's son, Khudayar Khan, ruled from 1844 to 1858, from 1862 to 1863, and from 1865 to 1875. In the meantime, Russia was continuing its advance; on 29 June 1865 Tashkent was taken by the Russian troops of General Chernyayev; the loss of Khujand followed in 1867.[8][page needed]

Shortly before the fall of Tashkent, Kokand’s best-known son, Yakub Beg, former lord of Tashkent, was sent by the then Khan of Kokand, Alimqul, to Kashgar, where the Hui Muslims were in revolt against the Chinese. When Alimqul was killed in 1865 during the battle with Russia for Tashkent, many Kokandian soldiers fled to join Yaqub Beg, helping him establish his dominion (known as Yettishar) throughout the Tarim Basin, which lasted until 1877, when Qing reconquered the region.[4][page needed]

The now powerless Khudayar Khan spent his energies improving his lavish palace. Western visitors were impressed by the city of 80,000 people, which contained some 600 mosques and 15 madrasahs. Insurrections against Russian rule and Khudayar’s oppressive taxes forced him into exile in 1875. He was succeeded by his son, Nasruddin Khan, whose anti-Russian stance provoked the annexation of Kokand[9] by generals Konstantin von Kaufman and Mikhail Skobelev. The Khanate of Kokand was declared abolished, and incorporated into the Fergana Oblast of Russian Turkestan.[10]

## Society

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In the 1830s, more than 5 million people lived in the Khanate of Kokand. Roughly 3 million of them were sedentary residents with Turkic and Iranian roots, while the remaining population of 2.0–2.5 million were nomadic tribes, spread across 400,000 households, consisting of various Turko-Mongolian groups such as Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Kalmyks, and Farghani Kipchaks.[11]

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## Military

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The Khanate of Kokand, much like its brother states the Khanate of Khiva and the Emirate of Bukhara, was well known to have used artillery in their military, with the nation beginning to use them after the fall of the Afsharid Empire, and seeing what these weapons could accomplish. The Khanate of Kokand was also known to use both cavalry and firearms in their military, as they could not afford to trade one out completely for the other, out of fears that the Russian Empire would take advantage of their temporary weakness and attack them. Most of the nation’s military advances were undertaken by Irdana Bey, the third Khan of Kokand.

## List of the khans of Kokand

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Muslim couple from Kokand (霍罕回人). Huang Qing Zhigong Tu, 1769 Seyid Muhammad Khudayar Khan, the 1860s Reign  | Ruler

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1709–1722  | Shahrukh Bey
1722–1734  | Abdul Rahim Bey
1734–1751  | Abdul Karim Bey
1751–1752  | Irdana Bey (1st Reign)
1752–1753  | Bobobek
1753–1769  | Irdana Bey (2nd Reign)
1769–1770  | Suleiman Bey
1770–1799  | Narbuta Bey
1799–1811  | Alim Khan
1811–1822  | Muhammad Umar Khan
1822–1842  | Muhammad Ali Khan
1842–1844  | Shir Ali Khan
1844  | Murad Beg Khan
1844–1852  | Muhammad Khudayar Khan (1st Reign)
| Mingbashi Musulmonqul (Regent for Khudayar Khan)
1852–1858  | Muhammad Khudayar Khan (2nd Reign)
1858–1862  | Muhammad Mallya Beg Khan
1862  | Shah Murad Khan
1862–1863  | Muhammad Khudayar Khan (3rd Reign)
1863–1865  | Muhammad Sultan Khan
| Alimqul (Regent for Sultan Khan)
1865  | Bil Bahchi Khan
1865–1875  | Muhammad Khudayar Khan (4th Reign)
1875  | Nasruddin Khan (1st Reign)
1875  | Muhammad Pulad Beg Khan
1876  | Nasruddin Khan (2nd Reign)

Sources:[12][13][14]

## See also

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* List of Sunni dynasties
* Emirate of Bukhara
* Khanate of Khiva
* Russian Turkestan
* Turkestan Autonomy (Kokand Autonomy)

## References

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### Notes

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1. ^ Roy, p. 3. "...the court language was Persian at Bukhara and Kokand, which at the time was seen as the main cultured language. The idea of associating a territory with an ethnic group defined by language was alien to the political ideas of the Muslims of Central Asia. These populations were, and still are widely intermingled, so that infra-ethnic identitics (tribal, clan, locality, family, etc) were more important in determining loyalties than strictly ethnic origin."
2. ^ Roy, p. 4, "Persian was the language of civilisation par excellence from Delhi to Samarkand, passing via Lahore and Kabul, and this remained the case until the early twentieth century. The emirates of Kokand and Bukhara had Persian as their official language right up to their dissolution (in 1876 and 1920 respectively)"
3. ^ History of Civilizations of Central Asia, p. 81.
4. ^

* Classical Persian: خان‌نشین خوقند, Khānniśīn-i-Khoqand
* Chagatay: خوقند خانليغى, romanized: Khoqand Khaanlighi
* Tajik: Хонии Қӯқанд, romanized: Xoniyi Qo‘qand
* Uzbek: Қўқон хонлиғи, romanized: Qoʻqon xonligi
* Kazakh: Қоқан хандығы, romanized: Qoqan handyğy
* Kyrgyz: Кокон хандыгы, romanized: Kokon handygy

### Citations

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1. ^ Grenoble, Lenore (2003). Language Policy of the Soviet Union. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 143\. ISBN 1-4020-1298-5.
2. ^ Golden, pp. 114–115.
3. ^ Levi, Scott (2017). The Rise and Fall of Khoqand. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 45\. ISBN 978-0-8229-6506-0.
4. ^ a b c Starr.
5. ^ OʻzME.
6. ^ Howorth, p. 801.
7. ^ Dubavitski, pp. 31–33.
8. ^ History of Civilizations of Central Asia.
9. ^ Zenkovsky, p. 15
10. ^ Zenkovsky, p. 18
11. ^ Levi & Beisembiev 2023.
12. ^ Bosworth, p. 295.
13. ^ Geiss, pp. 116–117.
14. ^ Levi, The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709 – 1876, p. XIX.

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