ISSUES OF THE FORMATION OF THE ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF SOUTHERN KAZAKHSTAN FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18- th TO THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19- th CENTURY

Abstract

Based on historical sources and historiographical research, the prerequisites for the socioeconomic and political history of the formation of the multiethnic composition of Southern Kazakhstan in the pre-revolutionary period, which influenced the basis for the formation of the further multiethnic composition of Kazakhstan as a whole, have been studied. The purpose of this study is the history of the formation of the multiethnic composition of Southern Kazakhstan in the pre-revolutionary period, to characterize the source and historiographical base for studying the specifics of the ethnic composition of Southern Kazakhstan7 The causal relationships of the ethnic base of the population, the reasons for the arrival of numerous multilingual ethnic groups in the territory of Southern Kazakhstan, a brief description of the factors of completion of the centuries-old process of formation of the Kazakh nationality, based on based on the economic relations of the nomadic and sedentary type, It shows the main factors of the unification processes of ethnic groups into a single ethnic and socio-political community of the population of Southern Kazakhstan, a look at the colonial policy of tsarist Russia, popular discontent among the Kazakhs and the influence on the growth of the Kenesary Kasimov movement, which played a role in the
growth of the ethnic composition of the population of Southern Kazakhstan. Natural and climatic, socioeconomic conditions, irrigation of land resources, and further commodity-monetary relations, which also accelerated the process of ethnic groups' separation from some areas to others. The research is based on methods of comparing and contrasting historical data, causal relationships of historical events, problemchronological methods, a structural, historical and logical approach to the disclosure of research topics and objectives. The research results reveal the first block of the dissertation's work in a brief form, the features of preparing brief data for the ethnographic map of the period and region under study. The above facts and historical data reveal some facts about the history of the formation of the multiethnic composition of Southern Kazakhstan in the pre-revolutionary period, the objective and subjective reasons for the internal
development of the indigenous population, the reasons for the resettlement policy of foreigners, alien clans and ethnic groups are identified.