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'CORRECTIONS TO GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME III' [‎47r] (95/180)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (88 folios). It was created in 1913. 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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KUH—KUH
47
Boundaries .—On the north, the boundary of the Kiihgalii country is indefi
nite : but it may be said that the head-waters of the Ab-i-’Ala, rising in
the Mangasht mountains are in their hands, and that the country to within
a few miles of the Karun near Bars is theirs. Their territory also extends to
near Lurdagan—a district inhabited by a settled Bakhtiari population.
To the east, we know nothing of the Kuhgalu-Qashqal boundary, beyond
the fact that Bell mentions Sisakht and Khurra as Kuhgalu territory. We
may assume, then, that, at all events in 1888, the prominent Kuh-i-Dinar
formed the Kuhgalu Qashqal boundary.
To the south also we know nothing definite. Kaleh-i-Aru is in the hands
of the Buir Ahmadi, Basht belongs to the Bavi, a tribe of Arab extraction,
who many years ago joined the Kuhgalu. South of Basht and
Behbehan are various gwcm'-Kuligalu tribes, classed by Baring in 1882 as
Zir-i-Kfih Kuhgalu. They are Kiihgalu, however, only in name, like the
Bakhtiari in the Ramuz district.
To the west, our knowledge is somewhat more exact, but is complicated
by the fact that certain sections of the Bahmai tribe, who are undoubtedly
Kuhgalu by origin, have in recent years owned allegiance to the Bakhtiari,
to whom they pay a light tribute. Their territory must, however, be con
sidered as Kuhgalu country, though not within the administrative province
of Ears, as is nominally the case with other administrative tribes. Kai
Kaus, the site of Sassanian ruins, and of a fire temple in good preservation,
is just on the Kuhgalu side of the border, which runs north-west, nearly
parallel to the Ramuz-Behbehan road, to a point 2 miles west of Pijan on
the Ab-i-Bulfarls. From this point it runs north-east, crossing the Daliin-
Bulfaris road midway between Batik and Bulfarls, and Kuh-i-Bengistun
and Tanbulun to a point midway between Talavar and Kaleh-i-’Ala.
The former is a Bakhtiari village, the latter the head-quarters of a section of
the Bahmar, tributary to the Bakhtiari. North of Talavar, a small tract
of land, known as Saiyidfm, extending to Shah-i-Mangasht, is in the hands
of another section of Bahmai, under Zaki Khan, also tributary to the Bakhti
ari. The south slopes of the Mangasht, for the most part, and all the east
slopes, are in the hands of Bahmai who own allegiance to Muhammad Husain
Khan of Kaleh-i-’Ala, or to ’All Murad Khan of Dishmuk.
Rivers .—The Kuhgalu country is drained by two great rivers, the Karun
and the Jarrahi, and by both the main branches of the latter, viz., the Ab-i-
’Ala and the Ab-i-Marun. The principal Kuhgalu tributaries of the Karun
are the Ab-i-Bars and the Daria-i-Gandum. The Ab-i-’Ala rises on the
^ east slopes of Mangasht, and drains the country to within a few miles of
Dishmuk, falling eventually into the Rud-i-Zard, of which it forms the grea
ter part. The basin of the Ab-i-Behbehan, or the Ab-i-Marun, is apparently
entirely Kuhgalu country. Dishmuk (6,500') is near the head of each of
these systems : the Dishmuk Valley itself drains south to Behbehan. Two
miles to the east the country drains into the Ab-i-’Ala, and a few miles to
the north, into the Ab-i-Bars. All these streams are snow-fed, and sweet.
The mountains run north-north-west and south-south-east, as elsewhere,
but the rivers cut through them forcibly, and, generally speaking, have
a north-east and south-west trend.

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The volume consists of corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia Volume III (1910 Edition). This volume was produced in 1913 (4th series) by the General Staff, India.

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.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla.

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1 volume (88 folios)
Arrangement

The entries are arranged in alphabetical order from front to back, with cross-references where required.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 88; these numbers are printed or in pencil, 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.

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