"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد III. جزء I: من A إلى K" [ظ‎‎١‎٧‎٠] (١٢٧٨/٣٤٥)

Village
Khaviz .....
Houses.
10
Owner (1910). 1
Mirza Sharif.
Pakub Alumdar
20
Hujat-ul-Islam.
’Abbas Lak-i-Bagdili.
Kaleh-i-Kalat
10
Burj-i-Kahar . . • •
20
Qaid ’Ali Murad.
Kaleh-i-Bunchl-Bashfc . .
20
Abdul Qasim Khan, Kalantar.
Hazrafc-i-’AH ....
•
20
Fathullah-i-Duhrab Agha.
The following villages also belong to the province :—Buniabad, Chah
Bu ’All, Cham-i-Chit, Chehar Aslah, Daulatabad, Dugunbazan, Haji Bu-
Mfmi, Imam Riza, Jnlaki, Kalan, Khairabad Lasafid, Lishtar, Pil Khaneh,
Kaleh-i-Aru, Kaleh Muragheh, Sardasht.
The inhabitants of the province are mostly of the Kuhgalu and Mama-
sani tribes {q.v.). There is also an admixture of other tribes, immigrants
from other districts and unclassified people, a mixture of Persian and Arab
blood, who are generally known collectively as Behbehanis.
The following nine tribes are directly dependent on Behbehan :—
(a) Bu Wall (—Abu ’ All)
(b) Khwaja Almas.
(c) Shaikh-i-Mamu Shaikh
Qazimi.
(d) Buir Ahmadi (Garmsiri).
(e) Kushdas.
(/) Baghdili.
(g) Jam-i-Buzurgi.
(h) Kashdil.
(i) Dandi.
(a) Bu Vail .—The Bu Vali or Abu ’All, as they should properly be called,
are a tribe of some 200 families of whom 100 families live in Behbehan
itself and the remainder in the vicinity. All are under the leadership of
one Khan ’All—the tribe supplying Behbehan with farm produce brought
in daily.
Khan ’All can muster not more than 100 armed men, mostlv footmen.
They possess about 300 cows 4,000 sheep and goats, 100* donkeys, 20
horses, 10 mules, and 100 khish of both irrigated and unirrigated land.
(b) Khwayd Almas .—The Khwaja Almas are a small tribe of some 150
families, under the leadership of one Almas, and have their habitat between
the Kaleh-i-Gul and Kaleh-i-Gulab. Capable of supplying 150 fighting men,
of whom, however, only 100 could be armed with rifles. They possess
200 cows, 3,000 sheep and goats, 100 donkeys, 10 horses, 10 mules and
10 khish of unirrigated land.
(c) Shaikh-i-Mamu Shaikh Kdziml .—The Shaikh-i-Mamu Shaikh Qazimi
are a tribe of 200 families, under the leadership of Shaikh Mehrab, son of
Shaikh Qazim, having their habitat at Durunak (near Zaidan). They are
capable of putting 300 fighting men into the field, | of whom only, however,
would be armed with rifles. They posses about 400 cows, 5,000 sheep and
goats, 200 donkeys, 100 horses, 50 mules and -150 khish of unirrigated land.
They trade with Behbehan, Dilam, and Haiat Baud.
(d) Bmr Ahmadi ((Garmsiri ).—The Garmsiri Buir Ahmad consist of 250
families, under Nasrullah Khan, having their habitat at Kaleh-i-Dil and
Kaleb-i-Azu. They can muster 300 armed fighting men. They possess
500 cows, 5,000 sheep and goats, 200 donkeys, 20 mules, 100 horses and 20
khish of unirrigated land ; and they produce 300 maunds (Behbehan) rice,
2,000 jizza wool, 100 maunds, ghi, 500 jizza goat’s hair.
(e) Kushdas .—The Kushdas are a part of the Garmsiri Buir Ahmadi com
prising some 70 families, capable of mustering 70 armed men, under the
leadership of Amir Khan and Baba Khan—having their habitat at Baba-