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The Andijan Uprising of 1898 and the Rise of Dukchi Ishan
In May 1898, a Sufi mystic named Muhammad Ali ibn Sulton, better known as Dukchi Ishan, led a rebellion in the Ferghana Valley that briefly rattled Russian colonial rule in Turkestan. This episode explores the religious, economic, and political currents that fueled the uprising — from the dispossession of local landholders by Russian cotton plantations to the millenarian expectations surrounding a holy man who claimed to have visions of the Prophet. We trace the attack on the Russian garrison at Andijan, the swift suppression by General Nikolai Korolkov, and the show trial that followed…
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