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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [43v] (91/988)
The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. 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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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 simj^icity
and stupidity. Their principal chiefs are Husain Q,uli Khan, Mai Khan,
Manushi Khan and Jani Khan.
Dilfan .—Like the Silsileh, the Dilfan are of Arab origin. They are the
descendants of the Abu Half, who, being near neighbours, encroached by
degrees into Persian territory and became merged mto its people, and they
have now become the most powerful confederacy in Luristan Then 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 talak-ud-
Din, flows through the Tang-i-Badavar by a westerly course. It is joined
before entering this gorge by the Tirud, a stream coming from the direc
tion 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
more 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 ’AB Khan, of the Amrai tribe.
The following family tree may be of interest in this connection :—
Nusir.
Barkhuda KhSn. Habibullah Khan. Fathubah Khan.
Naziz 'All Khan Ja’afar Quli KhSn, Qasim. Bahar Khan.
Fath-us-Sultan Sartip. {Died.)
A eon.
The Fath-us-Sultan fought for six or seven years for the supremacy
with Q-asim Khan, the struggle only being terminated by the death of the
latter, and the acceptance of the supremacy of the Fath-us-Sultan by his
dead rival relatives. Various and widely different estimates (1904) have been
made of the fighting strength of this tribe, and it has been put as high
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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).
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 towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
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 includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).
Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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