A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA

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Kaufman, Konstantin Petrovich von, Tsarist
officer and second governor-general of
Turkestan, 203
Kazakh Hordes, tribal confederations in premodern
Kazakhstan, 195–7
Kazakhs, 145, 161, 195–7
Kazakhstan, viii–xi, 6, 22, 24, 27–8, 216,
331–3
Kazan: Khanate of, 28; capital of Tatarstan,
viii, xi, 9
Kerulen or Keluren, a river in eastern
Mongolia, 19
Khalq Shurasi, “People’s Council,” parliament
of the short-lived Khoqand experiment,
214
khangah, a lodge of sufi dervishes, 37
Khans of Khiva see Yadigarids, Inaqids
Khazar qaghanate, 9, 28
Khitan, Qitan, proto-Mongol people who
conquered northern China and ruled
with the dynastic name Liao, 81–2
Khiva, a city in south-eastern Khwarazm,
capital and name of the last two khanates
in the region, 7, 181–6, 327–8
Khojaev, Fayzulla, a Bukharan and Uzbek
public figure, 218, 237
Khoqand, a city in western Fergana, 9;
Khanate of, 187–93; center of the
Khoqand experiment, 213–15
Khorezm, People’s Republic of, 221–2
Khorug, capital of Gorn-Badakhshan
Autonomous Region, 13
Khudayar Khan, the penultimate khan of the
Khanate of Khoqand, 193
Khujand, a city in north-western Tajikistan,
14; called Leninabad in the Soviet period
Khurasan, a historic region in southern
Central Asia, 6, 10, 14, 47
khwaja, a Persian title of respect that can mean
a sufi shaykh, 37
Khwajas, dynasty of, see Aqtaghliq,
Qarataghliq
Khwarazm, a historic region in western
Central Asia, 6–8, 47
Khwarazmshahs, 58–9, 106–7, 319–20
Kiakhta, a town on the Russian side of the
Mongolian border, 21
Kipchak, name of a large group of Turkic
tribes and languages in Kazakhstan and
the Pontic steppes, 33
Kipchak steppe see Dasht-i Kipchak
Kök Turks, 21, 46, 51–6, 64–5
Kolbin, Gennadiy, a Russian, replaced the
Kazakh Kunaev as First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Kazakhstan, 260–1
Kopet Dagh, mountains along the
Turkmen–Iranian border, 10
korenizatsiya (“nativization”), 255
Krasnovodsk, a port and railroad terminus on
the Caspian coast of Turkmenistan, 10;
now officially called Turkmenbashy
Kubra, Najm al-Din, founder of the
Kubraviya order of dervishes, 38, 249
Kubraviya order of dervishes, 37
Küchlüg, a Nayman chieftain and brief master
of Central Asia, suppressed by the
Mongols, 100
Kuchum Khan, the last ruler of the Khanate
of Sibir, 163
Kül-tegin, a Kök-Türk prince, mentioned in
the Orkhon inscriptions, 54
Kulja, a city in northern Sinkiang, 263
Kunaev, Dinmukhamed, a Kazakh, First
Secretary of the Communist Party of
Kazakhstan, replaced by Kolbin, an
ethnic Russian, 255–6
Kungrad or Kungrat, Turco-Mongol tribes
speaking Kipchak Turkic, 186–7, 328
küregen, gurgan, “son-in-law,” a title used by
Timur, 125
Kuropatkin, A.N., the last governor-general of
Tsarist Turkestan, 205, 209
Kushan Empire, 11
Kushk, a river in northern Afghanistan and
southern Turkmenistan, 10
Kushka, a town and railroad terminus on the
Turkmen side of the border, 10–11
Kyrgyz, 21, 81–2, 159–60
Kyrgyzstan, viii–xi, 21, 24, 334–5
Kyzyl kum or Kyzylkum , a desert in
Uzbekistan, 2
Kyzyl Orda, 25, 27; previously called
Akmeshit and Perovsk
Kyzylsu, a river in Kyrgyzstan, 12, 16
Lecoq, Albert von, German archaeologist in
Turfan, 268
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 211, 219, 250–3
literacy, 230
“Little Bukhara,” a nickname for Sinkiang,
178
Loyang, one of the two capitals of Tang
China, 52
Macartney, George, British consul in Kashgar,
269
Madali Khan, khan of Khoqand, 191–2
Mahmud of Ghazna, 97–8
Malik Shah I, Seljukid sultan, 95–6
Mamay, the usurper khan of the Golden