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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [33v] (66/122)
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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families; they live in the angle cut out of the Persian frontier, where
the Sival Su rises in the Kuh-i-guza Aghaj mountain. They are the
most valiant and intelligent of all the Baba Kurds, excellent horsemen,
good shots with the rifle, capable smiths and agriculturalists, and bold
robbers; many who enter the service of the Government prove useful
officials. In 1878, 600 horsemen of this tribe, armed only with lances,
penetrated far into the Caucasus and returned with immense spoils.
The Turkish Government has recently done much to suppress the
Hamawand, but without success. Most of them speak Arabic, though
their language is Kurdish; their dress is a mixture of the Arab and
Persian styles. Formerly armed with lances, they now carry only
daggers and rifles.
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
15. JafMI...
10,000
On both sides of the
Semi-Nomadic; their
frontier [near the
chiefs are noted for
Hamawand]
loyalty to oneanother.
Baba.
16. Guran
(?)
[Neighbouring on
Baba.
the Jaff]
The remaining six
tribes inhabit the region across the frontier +
from the vicinity of the Wazna Pass down to the Kuh-i-guza Aghaj
mountain.
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
17. Mengor
2,000
In summer atWazna
Semi-nomadic; warlike.
18. Malkari
(?)
[S. of Mengor]
Baba.
19. Kialoner
(?)
[E. of Malkari]
Baba.
20. Ghowruk
(?)
[S. of Malkari]
Baba.
21. Babi Khassa ...
(?)
[E. of Ghowruk] ...
Baba.
22. Alan...
(?)
[S. of Babi Khassa]
Baba.
The tribes catalogued in this class are very similar to one another in
habits and appearance. They are usually wealthy shepherds who only till
the soil for subsidiary purposes; they frequently employ outside labour for
|j Saladin is supposed to have been sprung from this tribe.
I There are many scattered groups of Kurds in Persia who are not included in
this account, as hardly anything is known about them.
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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