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From that time, Liravi remained nominally annexed to Behbehan, itself
a sub-Government of Pars, and tribute was exacted by the Prince Governor A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925).
of Pars in his yearly tours along the coast about 1870.
In 1887, however, Bandar Dilam, the port of Liravi, and the lands around,
were placed under the Government of the Gulf Ports just created, and
handed over to the Khans of Haiat Daud. Before or about 1900 the
district itself was granted by the Shah as a fief to Haji Saiyid Said-us-
Sultaneh, who became Governor of the Gulf Ports for a short time in 1907.
He farms the district to the Khans of Liravi for 8,750 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. annually.
During all these years of disorder, when districts around have paid no
“ Maliyat ”, the Khans of Liravi have, on the advice of their near relatives,
the Khans of Haiat Daud, paid their revenue regularly, through the Imperial
Bank of Persia at Bushire, in order to keep on the right side of Govern
ment, and give no cause for Government interference in their tribal matters.
Prom the time of the district becoming a private fief till Amir Mujahid’s
advent no Governor of Behbehan had had right or reason to interfere in
the affairs of the district.
The owner of Liravi, Haji Saiyid Said-us-Sultaneh, after his Government
of the Gulf Ports in 1907, was requested by the Khans of Liravi to have
the district placed under the Government of the Gulf Ports and is under
stood to have begun negotiations iu Tehran with that object. This is
indeed the logical solution and the one best calculated to serve Persian
and British Government interests; and prevent further Bakhtiari aggres
sions.
British interests demand it, because it would be a source of constant
friction and inconvenience to have a district, uniform with and between
^Arabistan on the north, and the Gulf Ports districts on the south, subject
neither to the one Government nor to the other.
LiRAVl (Tribe)—
A division of the Kuhgalu (q.v.), also see under Bahmai, TalyibI Khadiri
and Agha J ari.
According to tribal traditions their progenitor was aBehdarvand Bakhtiar
(by name-—Agha 'All), who fled from his own country and settled in the
Tang-i-Lira, married a Lur girl, by whom he had four sons r from whom
are sprung 4 of the present 5 subtribes of the Liravi. This is most easily
explained by the subjoined tree :—
Agha ’Aii
Yosuf Khadir.
Trihe Yusufl. Tribe Khadiri.
the fifth division being the Agha Jarl.— {Ranking > 1910.)
Bah man
Tribe Bahmai.
Taijib.
Tribe Taiyibi.
Garmsiri and
Sarhadi.