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Behbudiy and the Jadids: 'The Patricide'

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1913 · Samarkand · Asia · Culture

The first Uzbek play warns: without school, a son turns killer

Behbudiy and the Jadids: 'The Patricide'
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Mahmudkhoja Behbudiy, a Samarkand mufti and leader of the Jadid reformers who opened new-method schools, published the play Padarkush ('The Patricide') in 1913. A rich man's uneducated son falls into bad company and kills his father; staged in 1914, it launched Uzbek theatre.

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