"تقرير عسكري عن (جنوب - غرب) بلاد فارس، المجلد V. لورستان" [ظ‎‎١‎٢] (١٥٢/٢٩)

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This force need not be large: the forces of disorder are in
capable of organising and are easily dispersed, but it must be well-
armed, and efficient, and hitherto no such troops have been sent to
Luristan. The regiments despatched have been of the worst type,
and have proved a burden, rather than an assistance, to the Governor-
General.
The policy of every Governor is to pit tribe against tribe, utiliz
ing the services of one to coerce the other, such a policy is only tem
porarily successful, it ends by impoverishing the district and em
bittering tribal relations. Only coercion by an independent force
can ensure permanent results. H. H. Salar-ud-Dauleh, Governor-
General in 1904 and 1906, is responsible to a large exter.t for the
prevailing anarchy. His ideas of government were limited to in
citing one tribe to plunder another: he aimed openly at becoming
Shah, and sought to enlist the support of Lur tribes, but without
success. By his short-sighted policy he encouraged Lur chiefs to
harbour hitherto unimagined pretensions, and showed them plainly
that the power to make and unmake Governors was in their hands,
as Riza Quli, Nizam-us-Sultaneh, his successor, discovered to his cost
in 1907, and Muntassir-ud-Dauleh in 1909. The Nizam-us-Sultaneh
succeeded in imprisoning the Sag wand chiefs Fazil, Hasan and
Gada : shortly afterwards he declared Nazar "All Khan to be a
rebel: the latter retorted effectively by joining forces with the dis
contented elements in Khurramabad and besieging the Nizam, who
had taken up his quarters in a fort just outside the town. He soon
capitulated, and was removed to the house of the Imam Juma’, who
took counsel to put him to death. In the meantime the Sagwand
chiefs were released and joined Nazar ’AH, who issued a manifesto
to the Sagwand in’Arabistan in which he indicated his intention of
attacking the Wall. Thrown on his wits, the Nizam-us-Sultaneh
succeeded in addressing a letter to the townspeople, pointing out the
terrible consequences that would accrue to the town, were his sacred
person abused. The argument was taken up to such good
purpose that the people, realising already that their Lur masters were
in no way preferable to the Governor-General of the day, rose en
masse, released and reinstated the latter, and imprisoned the Imam
Juma’. The Sagwand Khans, seeing the tide had turned, fled, and
have not since returned to Khurramabad. The Nizam-us-Saltaneh’s
influence had disappeared, however, and he left soon afterwards and
was appointed Governor-General of Kfrmanshah.
He was succeeded by Sardar Flruz, whose brief career was un
eventful, as he made no attempt to leave Burujird or collect revenue.
His successor Muntassir-ud-Dauleh was less discreet; he killed
Sarum-es-Saltaneh, chief of one of the local regiments, and himself