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KAI—KAM
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KAI KAt)S (3).
A village about 10 miles north of Behbehan, in the Marun valley.
The village, containing 100 families, and the lands of Kai Kails, belong
to Haji Khusru Khan, Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. -uz-Zaffar, by whom they are let to ’Ali Naki
Khan, Bahmai at an annual rental of 1,500 tumdns. Not more than 50 rifles
of sorts are to be found in this village. The inhabitants own about 200
cows, 3,000 sheep and goats, 100 donkeys, 20 mules and horses, together
with 100 khish of wheat cultivation and 8,000 date trees.
They produce about 200 maui.ds (Behbehan) of rice; 7,000 maunds of dates.
The taxation of the villages is 1,050 tumdns payable annually to the
Behbehan Governorship. As internal tax ’Ali Naki Khan levies a tax of
3 krdns per annum per date tree, and takes £ produce or its equivalent.—
(Ranking, 1910).
KAMARIJ (District)—
History .—About 1905, in the time of Haidar Khan, its late chief, the
district of Kamarij was more important than to-day. Haidar Khan, by force
of arms, obtained unlimited control from the top of the Kutal-i-Malum to
Kazarun, where he established himself as Deputy Governor, and turned
out and defeated Khwaja Ibrahim, Kaldntar of Kazarun. Haidar Khan
died of wounds inflicted by a slave at Kazarun in September 1909, leaving
an infant son, Farajullah Khan, in the guardianship of a black confidant
Khiirshid. The latter possessed considerable talents, and great bravery.
He had to repel attacks by a brother of the late Haidar Khan, and constant
aggression from men, whom he had outlawed from Kamarij, including the
well-known ’Ali Muhammad. The Kashkulis were bitter enemies of his,
and coveted the district. In the spring of 1911 Nizam-us-Sultaneh deter
mined to attack Kamarij, urged on by Saulat-ud-Dauleh. Several hundred
Qashqals with other partisans of Nizam bombarded the village, and
Khurshid, after shutting himself up in the Khan’s fort, on which many of
his own villagers fired, escaped to the Kuh-i-Mast. He was gradually
joined by his adherents, and returned in June 1911 to Kamarij, when he
destroyed most of the houses in the village to prevent the inhabitants oppos
ing him again. He made a great show of ruling, not in his own right, but
on behalf of Farajullah Khan. Khurshid Khan had always been friendly
to the British, and in December 1911, gave warning about the attack on
Mr. Smart at Rahdar. In August 1911, he was accidentally killed, and
Kamarij was taken over by Mulla Quli on behalf of Haidar Khan’s son.
Haidar Khan’s widow had married Husain Beg of Daliki, and his
daughter had married Khwaja ’Abdullah, Nasir-ud-Divan, Kaldntar of
Kazarun, so the family was closely connected with its neighbours. During
the latter part of 1912 the Kamarijis were continually quarrelling with the
KashkiiHs, being supported by the Kazarunis. Kunar, Takhteh (Khisht)
DalakI, Borazjun, and Shabankareh were all mixed up in these quarrels,
the last three siding with Kamarij.
In 1912 Kamarij maintained about 70 road guards.