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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [27r] (53/122)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in 1919?. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Bubanli, Kusan, and Rutchaba, all of whom are Zaza; the Zeidan,
Erikli,f and Pir Musi, who are Kermanji Kurds. They are extremely shy
and wild and are averse from supplying information about themselves ;
hitherto, all that is known of them has been learnt from other Kurds, who
have visited Motikan.
In the next place are eight tribes of loosely connected Kurds, who
are enumerated in the following list:—
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
1. Pinjari
450
District of Sassun...
Kermanji language.
2. Slivan
(?)
[District of the
Murad Su]
Probably Zaza.
3. Zaza ...
1,000
[Scattered]
Non-tribal.
In the whole of this district there are a large number of non-tribal
Zaza, who live .almost in a state of anarchy; they have no regard for the
sanctity of human life nor do they appear to have adopted any
religion.
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
4. Kedak ...
600
[S. of R. Peru on the
Veshin Dagh]
Zaza.
5. Ashmishart
500
[S. of R. Peru, and
E. of Kharput]
Zaza; Shi‘ites.
6. Kulbin
(?)
[S. of the Kedak] ...
Zaza.
7. Sinan ...
(?)
[S. of R. Peru, and
E. of Kharput]
Zaza.
8. Bebirmaz
500
[Near Kharput] ...
Zaza; Shi‘ites.
These tribes form miscellaneous groups with little or no connection
with one another.
The last group consists of the Dersimli Kurds, a general
name for the 12 Kurdish tribes living in the Dersim
mountains:—
t Sometimes called Khiarta.
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The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Major Edward Noel (dated c 1919), and a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908.
It is divided into the following sections:
- Kurdistan and the Kurds - including boundaries, topography, and its inhabitants;
- the Kurdish tribes - including their locality, rough numbers, character, prominent families, and allegiances;
- Kurdish tribes outside Kurdistan - between Erzingan [Erzincan] and Sivas and in the neighbourhood of Marash [Kahramanmaraş], in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. , and in Syria;
- the Kurdish Movement for independence - history, origins, and causes;
- additions and corrections.
Also includes one map on folio 61: 'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'.
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- 1 file (59 folios)
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The file consists of a single publication. A contents page is at the front of the volume (f 2).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio, with 61, which is a folded map attached to the outside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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