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Abstract

This article discusses the new school of Uzbek historiography and its scientific conclusions on the ethnic composition of the Governor-General of Turkestan. New theoretical and methodological approaches to historiography and, on this basis, scientific views on the activities of Afghan citizens of Turkestan ethnic group in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century’s and their role in the socio-economic, political and cultural life of the country.