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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [31r] (61/122)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in 1919?. 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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Tribe.
Number ol
families
Locality.
Remarks.
22. Girdi...
1,200
[Between Herki \
and the Persian |
frontier]
Baba Kurds, who mi
grated from Gird-
mamik about 60 years
ago; sedentary, in-
23. Dere...
800
[W. of HerkiJ ../
dustrious and wealthy
24. Jellali
4,000
Near Amadia
Sedentary and nomadic;
a branch is found
near Mush.
25. Doshki
500
At Dehok
Brigands, speaking
Kermanji.
2(>. Kohan
70
[S.E.of Jezirat-‘ibn-
‘Omar]
Nomads.
27. Shaykhan
(?)
Near Sheikh ‘Adi,
religious centre of
Yezidi religion
Semi-nomadic ; Yezidi.
28. Keshkan
(?)
[W. of Tigris, below
Jezirat-‘ibn'Omar]
Some of the tribe said
to be Yezidi.
29. Hasseina
(?)
Near Mosul
Nomads and villagers.
30. Bejwan
800
[E. of Mosul]
Language a mixture of
Arabic and Kurdish ;
said to be of Turkish
origin.
31. Shabak
500
[E. of Bejwan]
Sedentary; said to be
Shi‘ites or Baba, or
to have a secret re
ligion.
32. Baliki
(?)
On frontier [to S.
of L. Urmiyah]
33. Spirti
(?)
Locality uncertain
Nomads.
The majority of Kurds in this class are semi-nomadic mountaineers,
partly agriculturalists, partly shepherds, and partly horse-dealers. They
are of a thievish disposition, bloodthirsty, cowardly, and often cruel.
Their women are ugly and hard-worked, and usually ride mules or
donkeys. The men are big-boned, of heavy build, and of a very dark
complexion. They are poor and usually badly armed. In their wanderings
they often dispense with tents and shelter themselves behind screens of
reed. In religion they seem to have no fixed beliefs, but they are often
counted as Moslems.
The tribes of the second class are tabulated in the following
catalogue:—
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The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Major Edward Noel (dated c 1919), and a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908.
It is divided into the following sections:
- Kurdistan and the Kurds - including boundaries, topography, and its inhabitants;
- the Kurdish tribes - including their locality, rough numbers, character, prominent families, and allegiances;
- Kurdish tribes outside Kurdistan - between Erzingan [Erzincan] and Sivas and in the neighbourhood of Marash [Kahramanmaraş], in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. , and in Syria;
- the Kurdish Movement for independence - history, origins, and causes;
- additions and corrections.
Also includes one map on folio 61: 'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'.
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- 1 file (59 folios)
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The file consists of a single publication. A contents page is at the front of the volume (f 2).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio, with 61, which is a folded map attached to the outside back cover; 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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