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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [239r] (482/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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455
LUR—LUR
The members of the tribe of Dilfau are chiefly ^Ali-Ilahis in
religion.
The tribe of 'Amalah, as the name denotes, were originally em
ployed by the Walls of Luristan as their immediate servants.
Several of its subdivisions are still called after the services that
their members used to perform, as mirakhur, katlrji (head muleteer),
ghulam (slave). This name is still applied to that portion of the
tribes of the Pusht-i-Kuh which encamps with the Wall.
The '’Amalah are Dili Nishlns, who cultivate the crown lands in the
neighbourhood of Khuramabad.
The tribes of the Pusht-i-Kuh are under a Wall whose ancestors were
the chiefs of all the Feili Lurs. Hasan Khan, the father of the Wall,
when Layard visited these tribes, was the last who possessed that
powerful post. He was, however, vested with authority over the tribes
of the Pish-Kuh by the Persian government, his legitimate right only
extending to those of the Pusht-i-Kuh. Kalb 'AH Khan, who was of the
same family, opposed him with some success, but was finally murdered
when in the camp of Muhammad'All Mirza, who had by an oath of safe
conduct prevailed on the chief to join him. Hasan Khan died at a very
advanced age. His three sons had ejected him from the government of
Luristan, and after his death they divided the tribes subject to him.
The eldest, 'AH Khan, enjoyed the chief authority in Luristan, the
following tribes acknowledging him as their chief :—Kurd, Shahan,
Dlnarv Lurt, Hademeni, (?) Sagwaud, and Bairanwand; the two
latter tribes, however, only when he had power to enforce his authority.
Ahmad Khan holds half the tribe of MehakI, and Haidar Khan the
remainder, with the tribe of Panj Situn.
'AH Khan, in addition to the tribes above mentioned, possessed the
villa 0*68 of Dih Luran and Bayat, and extensive pastures in the plains,
which are usually inhabited by the Banl-Lam Arabs, who pay a small
sum yearly for permission to occupy them.
Of all the tribes the Sagwands give the most trouble to the Persian
government. Relying upon the strength of their position, they are
often for some months in open rebellion. Before the arrival ot the
Mutamad in Khuzistan, in the spring of 1841, the whole country
was in a most disturbed state and the roads very unsafe : caravans were
frequently plundered, and the communication between Shustar, and
Karmanshah, and Khuramabad, by the mountain passes, almost en
tirely cut off. The country is at present in a more quiet state, and
hostages have been given by the chiefs as securities for their future
good conduct.
Lur-i-Kuchak was formerly included in the government of Karman
shah but since the removal of the Mutamad-i-Daulatto Isfahan, it has
been’made over to him. The usual residence of the governor of Pish-
Kuh is either at Khuramabad or in the plain of Saimarah.
It is very difficult to form a correct estimate of the forces that might
be raised in Lur-i-Kuchak. The Wall may probably be able to collect
between 4,000 and 5,000 men, of whom 500 or 600 are horsemen
The Sagwands have about 300 horsemen. The gross amount of armed
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
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The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; 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 volume has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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