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Tables of Contents for The Sands of Oxus
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
26
Reminiscences
27
2
Author's Foreword
29
2
Author's Introduction
31
6
The Celebration
37
5
After the Celebration
42
6
The Halva Factory
48
2
The Shifting Sands
50
4
Battling the Shifting Sands
54
4
In Soktare
58
4
The Clever Orphan and the Wicked Landlord
62
5
A Time and a Place for Everything
67
3
Demons and Dragons
70
3
Khaibar
73
3
Usto Amak
76
6
Lutfillo Guppon
82
5
A new Channel for the Shofirkom
87
10
The Greening of Shofirkom
97
3
Schooldays
100
11
Secondary Schooling
111
6
Learning to Write
117
5
Fasting and Breakfasting
122
3
The Darveshobod Fair
125
13
``Lord Provider''
138
4
My Father
142
9
First Impressions of Bukhara
151
10
The Mirakoni Khojas' Banquet
161
1
Farming
162
2
Plague
164
13
Harvest and Aftermath
177
1
Head of the Household
178
6
Soktare in the 1870s and 1880s
184
4
Off to Bukhara
188
7
Appendix I: Ahmad the Exorcist
195
26
Appendix II: The Village School
221
32
Glossary
253
16
Selected Bibliography
269