ABSTRACT
The borderline of the twentieth century is not far away and the modern theatre of central Asia finds itself struggling to re-establish roots in the great traditions of the past, roots which were brutally cut during colonial upheavals, which in some instances lasted several hundred years. This area-surrounded by the Hindukus and the great Himalayas and Pamir plateau at its northern borders and by the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean in the south-has given the world some of its great civilizations, civilizations that developed in the Indus valley and on the banks of the Ganges, civilizations that attracted the barbaric ‘kabilas’ of the north and west to attack and loot and finally to settle here in the course of history.
