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considerable branches, called the Murshid, the Falak-ud-Din and the
Karim ’AH. The Murshid are located in the country south of the Alishtar
plain ; the Falak-ud-Din inhabit Khava and the higher regions north of the
Alishtar plain ; while the Karim ’AH are located on the mountain slopes
between the two.
For some years past they have lived a quiet and comparatively sedentary
life in the villages and gardens which they have built and have laid out ; sel
dom troubling themselves to move to their qishldqs or winter quarters. These
are in the Samarreh valley which is between 80 and 100 miles distant to the
south-west, and to reach which they have to traverse the territory of the
Tihran. The Quliwand are credited with a total of some 3,700 tents or
15,000 souls amongst their several branches. They are also accounted to be
the fools of Luristan and many amusing stories are told of their simplicity
and stupidity. Their principal chiefs are Husain Quli Khan, Mai Khan,
Manushi Khan and Jani Khan.
Dilfdn .—Like the Silsileh, the Dilfan are of Arab origin. They are the
descendants of the Abu Dalf, who, being near neighbours, encroached by
degrees into Persian territory and became merged into its people, and they
have now become the most powerful confederacy in Luristan. Their habita
tions march with and overlap the lands of the Silsileh to an extent not easily
determinable, though they may be generally described as lying within the
Khava district. This district has a pleasanter and more temperate climate
than that of Alishtar, and is watered by many good streams and springs.
Thus the Sar-i-Ab-i-NIaz, which later waters the fields of the Falak-ud-
Din, flows through the Tang-i-Badavaz by a westerly course. It is joined
before entering this gorge by the Tirud, a stream coming from the
direction of Harsin ; their joint waters later flowing into the Samarreh
near Zardalal. Every spring in Khava has a plantation of willows about
it. There are three important tribes among the Dilfan ; the Kakawand, the
Itiawand, and the Mumianwand, which are in turn sub-divided into many
branches.
The general character of these tribes is nomadic, but their territory is
m n e or less continuous, so that their migrations are a different affair to those
of a tribe like the Sagwand. They are at present united under the strong and
capable rule of the Fath-i-Sultan, Nazar ’AH Khan, of the Amrai tribe.
The following family tree may be of interest in this connection :—•
Nrsns.
Barkhuda Khan. Habibullah Khan. Fathullah Khan.
Nazir ’AH Khan,
Ja’afar Quli Khan,
Qasirn.
Bahar Khan.
Fath-us-Sultan
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Sartip.
{Died.)
A aon.