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RUDN Journal of World History, 2021 In 1541 the Oirats managed to form the Middle Confederation, which was led by the Khoshuts as the most powerful people. In the second half of the same XVI century the Oirats, suffering from attacks of their neighbors - the Turkic peoples from the west ...
Baatr Uchaevich Kitinov
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Framing gender in Mughal South Asia
History Compass, Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Research on gender in Mughal South Asia has tended to focus either on the nature of the harem and elite female seclusion or, alternately, on constructions of elite masculinity. The first body of literature centers on debates as to the degree to which the harem functioned to limit (elite) women and constrain their political, economic, and ...
Emma Kalb
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Oirat-Kalmyk Folk Songs: a History of Recording, Investigating and Publishing in Russia and Europe
Монголоведение, 2020 Introduction. Oirats of China, Mongolia and Kalmyks of Russia live in three different countries — but share common ethnic ancestry. Oirats of China primarily reside in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, and Hara-Muren (Amur River valley).
Danbuerjiafu (Damrinjav) Baljin +1 more
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article is a summary of the scientific expedition on the project «Linguistic and ethno-demographic features of the Oirats (Kalmyks) of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region of the PRC (from July 6 to August 13, 2012). The author describes the aims and
N. Ochirova
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RUDN Journal of World History, 2020 The period starting from the second half of the XIV century. and up to the middle of the 15th century, had held under the sign of the fall of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China, and it was the most important one in the history of the Eastern Mongols and ...
Baatr Uchaevich Kitinov
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Reforms of the Modern Oirat-Kalmyk Language and Literature in the 20th century
Монголоведение, 2020 Introduction. The Oirats are Western Mongols, today living between the Altai mountains, the river Volga, the Kukunor Area, the Ili River and Kyrgyzstan.
Johannes Reckel
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Монголоведение, 2020 Introduction. Oirat folklore traditions include typologically different tales that remain vastly understudied. Folklore materials of Xinjiang Oirats used to be printed in Clear Script type up to the late 1980s, but currently those are primarily ...
Danara V. Ubushieva, Danbuerjiafu
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Seven Decades of Oirat Studies in China: 1949–2019
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Historically, the Oirats of China mainly live in the territory of Xinjiang, in the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and in the Western part of Inner Mongolia. Some of the Olets (descendants of Dzungars) live in the steppe part of the Emin Gol
Alatengaoqier, Baazr A. Bicheev
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Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Contemporary Kalmyk studies are characterized by that there are still a number of insufficiently explored issues dealing with the shaping of the Kalmyk ethnos, including that of identities of their ancestors within materials related to ...
Elza P. Bakaeva
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