"ملف رقم ١٥٨٤ لسنة ١٩١٣: خط السكة الحديدية المحمرة-خرم آباد" [ظ‎‎٥‎١] (٣٥٤/١٠٧)

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The present line of division amongst the chiefs of the various tribes is as
follows :—
—
Muradaliwand.
Kurdaliwand.
Mirha.
Judeki.
Faction No. 1 ... ^
Baruni
Hussain Khan ...
Zohrab ...
Mir Haji
Mir Sarhang ...
All.
'
Faction No. 2 ... ’
Baksh Ali ...
Jafar and brothers
• ••
Fathullah •••
Shir Muhammad
•—
•••
Mir Sardar
Mir Iman ...
Mir Tatar
Mir Rustam Khan
Mir Hatim Khan
• ••
•••
October 15th .—A letter was received in the morning from Ghulam Ali
Khan, Bairanwand, Shuja-es-Sultaneh, expressing a desire to come to Khurram.
abad to meet me and promising to sign the draft agreement : he stated that he
would be staying near Burujird this winter and that he was building a fort. In a
postscript he mentioned that Sardar Khan (a relation of his and of the Diwan-
begi) a notorious local ruffian whom I proposed to take to Dizful with me, to be
a Railway Syndicate head guard, in order to keep him out of mischief and to
placate his fellows, had been imprisoned in Burujird by Haji Fakhr-ud-Din,
Iftikhar-ul-Islam. Doubtless I shall be asked to take steps for his release.
Sarhang Musa Khan Hasanwand called during the morning: I had gone out
some three farsakhs to Rawat to lunch with him in 1911. He complained of
the Sardar Akram’s behaviour to him.
Negotiation with the Bala Gariweh continued during the morning and by
noon they had agreed to a monthly subsidy of 800—1 ,ooo tomans to be shared
between the Muradaliwand and Kurdaliwand sections of the Baharwand clan, and
by the Mirs. The Judeki to be dealt with separately. Influential chiefs to
receive separate subsidies : the subsidy to be payable so long as the Syndicate
were in their territories.
A rumour was current in the town in the afternoon that some gendarmes
had reached Burujird. There was a tribal scuffle in the evening in the course of
which Kadkhuda Baksh Ali of the Muradaliwand got severely knocked and one
Khurramabadi was killed.
October 16th .—Our special messenger arrived from Burujird during the day:
the letters brought included letters of congratulation, somewhat belated, on my
arrival at Burujird from Ghulam Ali Khan and Ali Mardan Khan Bairanwand,
and another letter from Saiyid Husain Said-ul-Nizam, son of an ex-Wazir of
Khurramabad and a brother-in-law of the Sardar Akram, to a like effect,
incidentally mentioning that he would like to be employed in some capacity
by us.
A detailed report by
they were attacked by
• 300 tomans in notes.
II rifles, 5 magazine.
7 rifles, Mauser.
Cartridges, i load,
bedding, I load.
Tents, Officer’s, I load.
Medical stores, i load.
Maxim gun fittings, i load.
Horse i.
Mules 4.
Saddles (of! dead horses).
Said-ul-Nizam who was with the Bairanwand when
the gendarmes, stated that the following articles were
captured from the latter* and that 4
gendarmes were killed. I have already
seen one gendarmerie rifle in Bairanwand
hands. The report states that it was
generally believed that I had instigated
the gendarmes to attack the Bairanwand,
as my arrival at Burujird coincided with
the event.