Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Duhamel ya yi daidai game da raunin Indiya ga tawaye: Rikicin Indiya ya ɓarke a can a 1857. Yaƙin Crimean ya ƙare tare da rushewar Rasha a 1856 kuma Rasha ba ta ba da tallafi ga 'yan tawayen Indiya a lokacin tawaye. A cikin shekaru masu zuwa Rasha ta karfafa ikonta a tsakiyar Asiya
: ya haɗu da Bukhara a 1868, Khiva a 1873 da Kokand a 1876.