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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎315r] (634/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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413 .
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619
rice. Apart from the produce of their fields, they derive a good income
from the sale of gum-tragacanth and charcoal. They are in great part
Beh Nishins who do not migrate to winter quarters. The village of
Zagheh is on the main caravan route and is of some size and importance.
This tribe is reckoned at 1,000 families with a total of 5,000 souls. For
their qishldqs vide tabulated statement below.
The Bairanaivand inhabit the country to the west of the two last-named
tribes, between them and the plain of Alishtar. The superficial
area of their ydildq, or summer quarters, is reckoned at some thing over 2,000
square miles. They own rich lands and many good villages besides being
well armed. They are numerically the strongest tribe of Luristan : their
numbers being estimated at some 7,000 families or 25,000 souls. While
many families have joined them from other tribes, they have in turn lost
others who have settled in Burujird or Silakhur. They have the
reputation of being amongst the most turbulent and unruly of the tribes
of Luristan. The tribe generally has a very bad name and their
chiefs are spoken of as uncivilised even in Luristan. In the time of Nadir
Shah they were removed en bloc to Shiraz : but escaped and returned to
Luristan. The qishldq of this tribe is at Kilab or in the Pusht-i-Kuh dis
trict : the latter, which are on the borders of the Turkish frontier, they
only visit after obtaining assurances of safety from the intervening tribes
men. The Bairanawand are divided into fifteen sub-divisions, vide tab
ulated satement below. The two principal chiefs of the tribe are Ma
Rahim Khan and Quli Khan, between whom enmity exists. The former
is on good terms with the Fath-us-Sultan (head of the Dilfan) who has
endeavoured to reconcile the two.
The Sagwand occupy the country to the south-east of and in the near
neighbourhood of Khurramabad, and contiguous to the lands of the Dal-
wand to the north. Their most important and productive tract is
’Arabistan. The climate of this region is temperate, except for a few months
in the winter. In the spring they pour into the plains of Dizful advancing
as far south as Shush. In doing this they usually give a wide berth to the
Dirakwand ; in whom they have but scant trust. If the Governor at Khur
ramabad is hostile, they not infrequently remain in the low hill country of
eastern Pusht-I-Kuh for the summer. Besides cultivated lands they own large
herds and flocks. The Sagwand are of Arab extraction and came into Luris
tan some 150 years ago. Karim Khan Zand endeavoured to transfer them
to Shiraz, but after a short stay in that place they escaped and returned to
Luristan. The tribe itself at that time was insignificant and was without
lands : but in course of time they murdered the chiefs of the Said, Makan
’AH and Tulabi tribes and annexed their properties. Thus the land taxes
they now pay are those of the tribes they overpowered. They have been
joined by many families from the PapI, Lurl, Mumianwand, Quliwand,
Hasanwand and Tihran tribes and now number 3,000 families or about
10,000 souls. They are sub-divided into many branches, vide tabulated
statement below. A small and distinct branch, known as Gallehdar is
permanently settled on the plains to the west of the Ab-i-Diz. Their
fighting strength is reckoned to be greater than that of any other Lur tribe

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; 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 also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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