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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [56v] (112/122)
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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110
represented by his nephew, Karim Bey. The tribe have, however,
rallied under one chief, ‘Ali Bey, as they have been weakened by dis
union ; they are ready to welcome the British. They spend the winter
roaming from Kifri to Qizil Robat and return in the summer to Persian
territory near Sennah and Sakiz. The tribe is divided into many
sub-sections, as follows :—
Sub-tribe.
Chief.
Famil
ies.
Remarks.
Mikaili
Hasan-ul-Hajji Qadri
2000
In Gil country; five
sub-sections.
Gelali
Reza Agha ...
800
Round Kifri. One sub
section.
Rukhzadi
Rustam ibn Muham
mad
800
Round Kifri. Four sub
sections.
Haruni
‘Abdul Muhammad ...
780
Round Kifri; five sub
sections.
Shatiri
Mahmud ibn Muham
mad Ibrahim
150
Round Kifri. Four sub
sections.
Tarkhani
Muhammad Hasan ...
400
Nomadic.
Yezdan Bakshi
Muhammad-us-Sul tan
750
In Shemiran and Gul-
amvar.
Kamalehi
Fattah Muhammad
Karim and Darwish
Samin
Nomadic, but becoming
sedentary.
Naoruli
Muhammad Husein &
‘Aziz-ul-Hajji ‘Abdul
—
In Shariyah district.
20 villages.
Bashki
Murad Wais ibn Mah
mud
200
Round Kifri.
Tileh Kuh
Ahmed ibn Muham
mad Bey
150
Round Kifri.
Sadani
‘Abdullah ibn Rustam
300
Round Kifri.
Amaleh
Muhammad Amin
200
Retainers of Begzada
family.
Tavguzi
Said ‘Abdullah
(?)
At Tavguzi.
Badakhi
Ahmed Rahim
150
Retainers of Mahmud
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
Yarwaisi
Ahmed ibn Fattah ...
100
Retainers of Karim
Bey.
Sheikh Ismaili
‘Isai...
Qadir-us-Salih
‘Ali-’l-Amin Khan
150
200
In Sharizur.
Sufiwand
Mustafa Qadir
70
In district of Kifri.
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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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