index of Places -- Contents -- A Note on Conventions -- List of figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction On the Social in Central Asian History: Notes in the Margins of Legal Records∗ -- Paolo Sartori -- CHAPTER ONE -- Amlākdārs, Khwājas and Mulk Land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest* -- Alexander Morrison -- CHAPTER TWO -- Managing Rural Landscapes in Colonial Turkestan: A View from the Margins* -- Beatrice Penati -- CHAPTER THREE -- Who Should Manage the Water of the Amu-Darya? Controversy over Irrigation Concessions between Russia and Khiva, 1913-1914* -- Akifumi Shioya -- CHAPTER FOUR -- High Rank and Power among the Northern Kirghiz: Terms and Their Problems, 1845-1864* -- Daniel G. Prior -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Performance and Poetics in Kyrgyz Memorial Feasts: The Discursive Construction of Identity Categories* -- Svetlana Jacquesson -- CHAPTER SIX -- Using Turki-Language Qazaq Letters to Reconstruct Local Political History of the 1820s-30s -- Virginia Martin -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- A Month among the Qazaqs in the Emirate of Bukhara: Observations on Islamic Knowledge in a Nomadic Environment -- Allen J. Frank* -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- Creating the Façade of a Despotic State: On Āqsaqāls in Late 19th-Century Bukhara -- Andreas Wilde -- CHAPTER NINE -- Fathers and Sons: Re-Readings in a Samarqandi Private Archive* -- Thomas Welsford -- index of Islamicate Terminologies -- index of Persons and Social Groupings -- index of Places.