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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [57v] (114/122)
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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112
Tribe.
Chief.
District.
Ojaq
Agha-i-Baiz Agha
Qal‘at Diza
Mangur-i-Kohistan
Hasan Agha
Persia
Mangur-i-Zudi ...
Husein Agha
Qal'at Diza
Qal‘at Diza
Qal'at Diza
Mangur-i-Gul Agha
Rasul Agha ...
Mamash-i-Garmian +
Hasan Agha...
Pitan §
1
Sowar
In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman.
Agha
Rania
1 Hasan Agha
Persia
Sinn
Ramakj ^ ir Khidri
Ibrahim Agha )
Rania
1 Faqi Weiri
Kaka Agha j
Rania
A large portion of the Piran still inhabit their old homes in
Lajan in Persia; those under Hasan Agha propose to settle in the
Bahkh valley near Darband.
P. 6» 1. 21. Other little known tribes in Southern Kurdistan are : (i.) the
Zend in the Zangabat district; they are sedentary and good culti
vators and number about 75 adult males; they have no chief at
present; (ii.) the Dilo, with no paramount chief with any
authority ; they number about 500 infantry and cavalry ; they are
Sunnites by religion and nominally sedentary, though addicted to
laiding. Mahmud Bey of Khaniqin, the most prominentman in the tribe
m pro-British ; there is also a section under Salim Bey in the Qara
Uagh ; (m.) the Gawkhar, under a muhtdr called Muhammad Said ;
Perhaps, attached to the Gezh; (iv.) the Gezh, under Khurshid
ibn Muhammad Mustafa; their strength is about 250 in all; they are
sedentary and famous for agricultural skill; they live round Yalghuz
AJghaj and Abu Alig; (v.) the Kakai or Qaghanlu, who have no
chief and whose total numbers are about 500 mounted and 700 dis
mounted men; they are cultivators; their ruling family is of the
Barzingi clan ; their western limit is the Qara ‘Ali Dagh and their
eastern the Hawijah district; (vi.) the Palani, about 50 strong, under
bhafur Agha and Rustam Khan.
P. 69, 1. 25. For “ Kara Hassan ” read “ Qara Hasan.”
P. 70, 1. 15.
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
.
For an unfavourable account of the Kurds in the Haimane
district south of Angora, see Sir W. M. Ramsay’s “Impressions of
Turkey” (ch. 5, § 6, pp. 114 ff.)
1 See p. 63, 1. 37.
§ See p. 63, 1. 39.
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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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