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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [57r] (113/122)
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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Ill
The Basin', who belong to the Baba, the Ismail Uzairi and the
Pishtamaleh are sometimes counted with the Jaff.
The Ismail Uzairi are under Hidyat Bey and number 100 horse
men and 300 infantry. They are a robber-tribe and purely nomad.
Connected with them are the Chingini, a nomad tribe about 350
strong, under Ahmed Agha.
Two other tribes in the Kifri district are the ‘Umbril, who
inhabit one village owned by the Sada family of Kifri, and the
Zangana. This tribe is divided into two sections, the Paris Agha
under ‘Abd-ul-Kerim Agha and the Rustam Agha, under Muhammad
Karim Agha. Each can count on about 35 horsemen and 100 infantry.
The tribe, which probably came from Persia, speaks corrupt Kermanji.
P. 63, 11. 82 and 35. Acu (Akho) and Bilbas.
In the district of Rania are two small tribes, the Akho and the
Bilbas. The Akho are divided into four sections, as follows :—
The Bashagai came originally from Kizler, near Suleimaniyah,
and ruled the whole tribe, but Mamand has lost all influence owing to
his bad reputation for oppression.
The Bilbas is a confederacy of tribes who support each other in
war, but have no other inter-relation. The tribes are as follows :—
* Migratory, living amongst the Girdi in winter.
t Non-tribal organisation.
Sub-tribe.
Sub-sections.
Chief.
Number of
villages.
Bashagai
Man dam era
Mamand Agha ...
Bahlul Agha
Hajji Muhammad Amin
8
7
7
Bawabia
Naodashti
or
Rizhikeri
Khaila
Bharush
and Ghafur Khan
Hamad Agha Kanabi
Hamad Amin and Hamdi
8
Babekh Aghai
Boli and Ba-
‘ Abdullah
Kaka Ahmed
Hamad Miran and Hajji
8
3
3
Motan
Shawr +
Dol-i-Raqa &
Shawr-i-
Gulan
7
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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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