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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [56r] (111/122)
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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109
P. 63, 1. 17. Daudieli.
(Or Dauda). There is no paramount chief; the most influential
men at present are Raf‘at Bey and Mahmud Bey, sons of Ismail Bey.
Their strength is about 170 cavalry and 250 infantry. The tribe
which is sedentary and engages in agriculture and mule-breeding, lives
in the Aw-i-Spi, near Tuz Khurmatli, where it settled about A.D. 1710.
The tribe is connected with the Talabani and Zenyana by marriage.
1. 20. Sheikh Bazeini.
This tribe came from Zakho about a century ago and settled on
both banks of the Lesser Zab; a few tribesmen remain still at Erbil
and Zakho. By religion they are Sunnites and speak Kermanji. They
were always hostile to the Turks. Their boundaries are Koi Sanjaq on
the N., the Shuan on the S., Taktak and the Shiwah Su on the E., and
Altun Koprii on the W. They own about 50 villages, numbering 480
houses and 540 adult males. The tribe is quiet and orderly, though
there is no paramount chief. On the left bank Paris Agha of
Serchinar is acknowledged as chief, and Mahmud Agha of Sardik on
the right bank.
1. 42. Hamawand.
The paramount chief is Muhammad Amin Agha; its boundaries
are on the Tokma mountain on the N., Tauq Su on the S., the Tashluja
range on the E., and Qara Hasan on the W. The peasants are
sedentary. It is composed of the nine following sub-tribes :—
Sub-tribe.
Chief.
Families.
Remarks.
Begzada
Muhammad Amin Agha
(Chalabi)
and Karim Fattah
Rash aw and ...
Faqir Muhammad Agha
—
Fighters; strength
Ram a wand
Amin-ur-Rashid Qadir
—
y about 250 horse-
Haidar
men.
Safarwand
Fatih-i-Riga...
—
Setabasar
Hamazap
—
Kaferushi
100
150 men.
Piriai
250
350 men.
Sufiawand
130
160 men.
Chingini
—
The last four sub-tribes are entirely composed of peasants.
The tribe came originally from Sennah about two centuries ago.
P. 64, 1. 15. Jaff.
Mahmud
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, of the Begzada family, the paramount chief, is
old and his sons are not equal to the task of ruling; he is therefore
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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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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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