Abstract

This article examines the methods of police surveillance over the spread of Islam in the Turkestan region. In official papers, secret instructions and in circularic letters of the Police department, there were instructions on data gathering about frame of mind of a local population, it’s attitude to administration of the territory, what position they could accept in the international conflicts, whether an idea of independence was kept in memory, who was supported by youth, what could be expected from them in the future, who taught in schools and medreses, how many schools taught by new methods, how many teachers and pupils were in them, what subjects they taught, etc. Each year these objects of information were gathered through the secret agents, privately by policemen.One of such methods was eradication the ideas of independence, religions etc. from the memory of local population. The idea ofuselessness of resistance to police – administrative authority had to be strengthened in consciousness of native population.

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