"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، بما في ذلك أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزء من فارس" [ظ‎‎٧‎٠] (٤٧٠/١٤٥)

Tlie Bah-i-Rahmet (Borahmad) number about 3,000 families and occupy
Aruand the mountains to the north of Ddgambuzan.
'rhe Nowi or Nui number about 2,000 families and are reckoned the best
of the Kuhgehlu horsemen. They inhabit the hilly country to the north-east
of Behbahan.
The 'beibi number 3,000 families and occupy the mountainous region of
Bors or Bars and Dina, the KalVi-Mula being their chief fort.
The Bahmei are reckoned amongst the most unruly of the mountaineers
of Fars ; they number 2,000 families and occupy the mountains to the north-west
of Behbahan, from the Tang-i-Saulek to the Maidan-i-Patek .—[DeB de.)
In stature the Mamasenni are taller than the Kuhgehlu; the latter are
hardy and wiry mountaineers {see page 105).
Zer-i-KuA.
Yussafi
Agha Jeri
Humei
Zeidun
Tang i-Tekao
Sirawi
Bandar Dilarn
Jafi'r Klein.
Hajj B'mouni.
Governed directly frona Beh
bahan.
Ka Mahamtned Baker.
Hajji Shah Kuli.
Abdulla Khan.
Those tribes are constantly described as fighting amongst themselves, usually
about pasture. They also have bitter blood feuds, and their not being amenable
to the authority of any one single chief makes them ditiicult to manage.
The Kashkat Lues.
The Kashgai or Kashkai, Turkish iliyats, are considered to be of the
Lur family, and in manners, customs, features, &e., resemble the Bakhtfans
and the Kuhgehlu, whose territory they border to the east. Their pastures
reach to the neighbourhood of Shiraz, Persepolis, Yazdikhast, and Kumesheh.
The winter pastures of the Kashkai extend to the south and south-east of
Shi raz to Firuzabad and on the road to Lar. Like the other Lurs they commence
their migrations thence soon after Nau-ruz (the spring equinox).
The western Kashkai number some 8,000 households, some say ] 2,000,
and could possibly equip for the field 3,000 to 4,000 men, of whom 1,500 could
be mounted. The famine, prior to 1873, greatly diminished their numbers ;
their chief families are the Ader Bav, Chardeh, Chink and Lashm. They are
ruled by an Ukhani and Ilbegi; the office of the former is practically in
abeyance. Living in the vicinity of Shiraz and the main SMraz-Isfahan
road, they are more under Persian control than any other of the Lur family,
and in consequence are heavily taxed, their lands being farmed out to that
one of their chiefs who may happen to be the most unscrupulous, most exacting,
and most ready in promises of enhanced revenue. The present Ilbegi is
Darab Khan; he succeeded Hajji Xasirulla Khan as Ilbegi, who had himself
succeeded Ali Kuli Khan. r lhese three families own the greater part of the
Kashkai temtory. Ali Kuli Khan, at one time semi-independent, was through
the instrumentality of the then Ilkhani, his relation, captured by treachery
and his possessions confiscated.
Darab Khan is popular amongst the nomads and is considered a good
administrator. 1.0 be such a man must be energetic and himself visit his
scattered following. The life of an Ilbegi who is practically, in the case of
the Kashkai, the Ilkhani is not one of repose, but rather of incessant labour,
both physical and mental (see pages 295, 296 ).
1 he Kashkai are wealthier than the Bakhtiari.
For additional information, see Gazetteer of Persia.
Mr. Baring, of the Tehran Legation, considers that the Kashkai out-
nuuiber the Bakhtfans. In all they number 25,001) to 30,000 families.