In 1847, there was a national uprising in TashkentViktor Dubovitskii and Khaydarbek Bababekov, "The Rise and Fall of the Kokand Khanate", in S. Frederick Starr, ed., Fergana Vally: The Heart of Central Asia (Taylor & Francis, 2011), p. 64. against the Khanate of Kokand, which had ruled the city since 1810.Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Indiana University Press, 2007). The governor, Aziz Parvonachi, was driven from the city, creating a vacuum in which various Kokand potentates vied for power. The Khojas of Chinese Turkestan took advantage of the absence of Khan Muhammad Khudayar Khan on campaign in Tashkent to launch the Holy War of the Seven Khojas against the Qing dynasty.Kwangmin Kim, Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market (Stanford University Press, 2016), p. 151.
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Further reading R. N. Nabiev, Tashkentskoe vosstanie 1847 g. i ego sotsial'noekonomischeskie predposylki, 1966.