Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of maps and tables vii
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Note on translation, transliteration and dates xiv
7. Glossary and abbreviations xv
8. Map ix
9. Editors’ introduction 1
10. 1 Why in Central Asia, why in 1916? 27
11. 2 The exemption of peoples of Turkestan from universal military service as an antecedent to the 1916 revolt 45
12. 3 The 1916 uprisings in Jizzakh 71
13. 4 The “virtual reality” of colonial Turkestan 95
14. 5 Fears, rumours, violence 126
15. 6 When the nomads went to war 145
16. 7 Scales of violence 169
17. 8 Violent acculturation 191
18. 9 Refugees, resettlement and revolutionary violence in Semirech’e after the 1916 revolt 209
19. 10 Links across time 227
20. 11 Making political rebellion “primitive” 256
21. 12 From rebels to refugees 289
22. 13 A Qırghız verse narrative of rebellion and exile by Musa Chaghatay uulu 308
23. 14 Domesticating 1916 327
24. Select bibliography 347
25. Index 356