#Khotan

Aydin Anwar

aydinanwar_

Today is East Turkistan's Independence Day, which unfortunately we cannot celebrate the same way a normal free nation would - since we're still brutally occupied. Our ancestors, many of whom

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

#Kanishka I was, the greatest, and certainly the most famous, of the #Kushan kings. He is known, from the combined testimony of the literary, epigraphic, and numismatic sources, to have

Zohra Saed, PhD

ZohraSaed

The Amir of Bukhara found refuge in Afghanistan. Refugees came in droves to the small country of Afghanistan and they were welcomed. At the border make shift desks were set

James Millward 米華健

JimMillward

A thread explaining why we will be finding Uyghur forced labor and Xinjiang abusive institutions involved in more and more things we buy: Starting ca 2010, PRC expanded the 援疆

Indian History

IndianHistory0

Share and RT this thread.. Many people mistakenly think "dasas" "dasyus" of the Rigveda were dark-skinned aboriginal "dravidians" –– this is definitely not true. Most philological research suggests they wer

ꯃꯥꯀꯨ

porbotialora

Thread on the massacre of Sindhi Hindus in Xinjiang by Uyghur Sunnis in 1933Sindhi Hindus were trading acriss Central Asia (Bukhara, Khiva) all the way to the Astrakhan Tatars in

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

How far back can ties between ancient China and early Iranian societies in Central Asia be traced? 1/Sino-Iranian relations go back to at least to 126 BCE, when Han diplomat

Jin Xu

xujnx

1900.6.22 A hidden “library” was found at Mogao Caves in Dunhuang. Sealed behind a wall ca. 1000 AD, it's packed with tens of thousands of manuscripts & paintings dating to

Darren Byler

dtbyler

Excellent overview from @JimMillward & @RianThum of the dispossession, institutional capture, & domination of Uyghur society, which together build a new frontier of global capitalism & state power. CC: @BeijingPalmer

Bad China Takes

BadChinaTake

I'll bite, Mr. Gray. We can even play by your rather finicky rules. Let's begin with some of the things you have said about Xinjiang, notably absent from your more

Gady Epstein

gadyepstein

THREAD: Following our cover this week on Uyghurs, I wanted to highlight scholars, journalists, activists and exiles who have helped expose and explain what is happening in Xinjiang, from the

g katyan misra

kamlesm

beautifull #Shankh #Conch once a musical instrument and also still used in rituals. for sacred rituals such conch are beautifully decorated, engraving done, plating with Gold/silver etc. it is now

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