The nineteenth century Tsarist Russia colonial policy to conquer Herat

Authors

  • Asadullah Asil Social Science Faculty, Herat University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61438/jsrqj.v7i2.3.8

Keywords:

هرات, استعمار, روسیه تزاری

Abstract

Tsarist Russian for improvement of their colonial policy, and protection of central Asia from their antagonist: the government of British India, and also reaching to Fertilized India coveted to Herat, which was on their way to India. Russian once in Tillist Peace Treaty in 1807 synchronized with Napoleon to conquer British India from Great Britain, they planned to invade via Herat, but it had no result. Then Tsarist Government wanted to dominate Herat with two planes. The first plan was to conquer Khiva, to open their path through Marv, and finally through Fertilized valley of Herat, and use the capacity of this city, which had Capabilities of cereals storages to equip the army to invade India. The second plan was to instigate Iranian government according their pretension and request to attach Herat to its lands, and pave the ways to dominate the city. They wanted to use Golistan and Turkmen Chai Treaty to break into Herat easily and start their planes to invade India. In this research which based on Descriptive-analytic method and leaned on library, tried to show how Herat in nineteenth century was a strategic place for Tsarist Russians to reach their imperialistic purposes. The research findings show that Russians did not stop trying to dominate Herat in nineteenth century, until the Tsarist government and Britain Empire sought an alliance against the emerging a new Empire of Nazi, and gradually put an end dot to disputes with Britain in Asia with treaty of 1907.

 

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Author Biography

Asadullah Asil, Social Science Faculty, Herat University

 

 

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Published

2023-06-29

How to Cite

Asil, A. (2023). The nineteenth century Tsarist Russia colonial policy to conquer Herat. Jami Scientific Research Quarterly Journal, 7(2.3), 159–173. https://doi.org/10.61438/jsrqj.v7i2.3.8

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