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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [32v] (64/122)
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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62
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
27. Piradtini
1,100
[S. of Zemzan]
Village-dwellers; Baba.
28. Koshnao
2,000
[Between Girdi and
Sheikh Bazeini]
Sedentary ; employed by
Girdi and Sheikh
Bazeini as workers
and to look after
crops in their ab
sence ; poor fighters. •
The Kurds enumerated in the preceding list are to a large extent
sedentary mountaineers; they are industrious agriculturalists, cultivating
every available piece of ground in the vicinity of their village, diverting
and damming streams, draining and digging ditches for the purpose of
irrigating their terraced fields ; they grow crops of barley, wheat, maize,
rice, and excellent tobacco. They live under the rule of tribal chiefs and
are constantly at war with one another. The men, who carry daggers and
rifles, are active fighters and hunters. Near the centre of each village is
a small douhle-bastioned block-house of hewn stone, in which the inhab
itants take refuge in case of need. They are sedentary, dwelling in summer
in bowers erected on the roofs of their houses. Their women are not
veiled and are well-treated. Many Jewish families live among them
unmolested, but Jews are not allowed to carry arms nor to engage in
tribal wars; they are, therefore, able to travel freely among hostile tribes
in the pursuit of trade. Nestorian Christians are treated similarly;
sometimes they are in a state of vassalage to the Kurds, but more often
they own their own lands and are on an equal footing with the Kurdish
population.
The last group deals with the semi-nomad Kurds of the plains and
the southern hills, several of whom form numerous and important tribes.
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
1. Surchi
8,000
[N.E. of Mosul]
One-third complete no
mads, the rest semi
nomads ; Baba.
2. Khalkani
700
S.E. of Surchi
Semi-nomadic, unwar
like; Baba.
3 Mamund
(?)
[E. of Mosul]
Sub-tribe of the Hama-
wand.
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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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- 'Kurdistan and the Kurds'
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- front, front-i, 2r:19r, 21v:60v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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