'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎295r] (594/706)

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about 1898 the Turkish Consul began granting Turkish papers to Persians,
and though this was stopped by the Persian authorities then, the process wa^,
renewed in 1900, and in 1913 ihere were about 2,000 families inSinneh with
Turkish papers ; many of those were of bad character.
The better classes of the people wear Persian dress, only the women keep
to the old style of head dress. The women of the people do not veil, and do
not wear chakhchurs (over-tronsers).
Many Christians and Jews reside in Sinandij, and are well treated and lead
happy lives. The Christians have fine large houses, shops, gardens, a caravan-
sarai and a church j and the Musulmans hear the nagus rattling every day.
Instead of ringing a bed, which is not allowed, a wooden board, swung
on two poles like a swing is struck by wooden clubs, the board is the nogus.
The town has 42 schools and 30 public baths, the latter are very filthy and
evil-smelling. The Governor’s residence is in the castle on the hill, 42 feet
above the town, and is called Dar-ul-Ayaleh. The barracks opposite the
Governor’s residence were built in 1872 when Prince Farhad Mirza Mu’tamad-
ud-Dauleh was Governor, and can accommodate a battalion of infantry.
The water-supply is barely sufficient for the population, but it could be
increased by leading the water into the town from the neighbourhood, where
good water is abundant. About 1,000 paces from the town stands the hill
Bldar from which a fine view of the town can be obtained, and between it
and the town is the Bagh-i-Khiisruabad which is laid out in modern
fashion with a lake and a water course, and pretty buildings .—(Gerard ;
Yusuf Sharif ; Curzon ; Schindler, 1910.)
For further details see Rabino’s “ Report on Kurdistan, 1911,”
SlNEH-BARIAB KUH—
A mountain, some miles south-west of Nihavand.— (Schindler.)
SINJABI—
A tribe of Kurds who inhabit the Mahidasht plain. They are ’A1
Illahis.
For many years this tribe was under Shir Khan, Samsam-ul-Mamalik,
but he was deprived of his post in 1908 by Baud Khan Kalhur and again in
1910 after he had regained it. The leadership passed to As’adullah Khan,
son of the late ’All Yardi Khan, a cousin of Shir Khan. Under Baud Khan he
held, besides the leadership, the frontier post of Kaleh Sabzi, and his two
brothers Habibullah and Amanullah, lived with him. Shir Khan lives in
Mahidasht near Kirmanshah at Qalinj Khani. He has four sons, ’Ali Akbar
Khan, Qasim Khan, and two boys. The first, by his bravery and intelligence,
has now obtained leadership of the tribe, and has appointed a relation, Sulai-
man Khan, to the frontier post of Kaleh Sabzi, As’adullah Khan and his
brothers having retired to their village of Kharrat in Garsif on the Hulvan
near Kaleh Sabzi.
The Sinjabi tribe is entirely nomadic, spending its winter in Baghcheh and
Qatar and around Kaleh Sabzi, and its summer in Mahidasht and near Juanrud.
The sub-sections are Chalabi (the tribe of Shir Khan), Allahi Khan, under
’Abdul ’Ali Khan, and Balian under Saiyid Ahmad, and some smaller sec
tions.
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