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The Kazerun plain is extremely fertile: grain, opium, tobacco and beani are
chiefly grown. Towards the Shahpur end are rice swamps, and a large amount
of rice is imported to Kazerun from Shulistan and the Mamasenni district.
Dawun which is hijjh up on the hillside, some 7 miles from Kazerun, produces
large quantities of raisins. Kazerun and Dawun arc also noted for the number*
of mules used on transport work, and owned by the inhabitants.
The Government of Kazerun has been for the past few years entrusted to
Khans of Qashgai clans, or to underlings of the Governor-General and the
llkhani: these however change constantly, and the permanent order of the town
is in the hands of Khwajeh Abdullah, Nasir-ud-Diwan, hereditary Kalantar,
brother of the late Khwajeh Ibrahim. Three generations ago this family emi*
grated from the Khwajeh family of the Haft Lang branch of the Bakhtiaris. He
is connected by marriage with the Sardar-i-Nedun.
The villages of Shahpur end *of the valley are In the hands and control of
the Kashkuli Khans, who encamp on the banks above the Shahpur river spring
and autumn. Similarly the caravanserai Khwajeh Ibrahim, off the end of the
Tang-i*Tufkan, is occupied by Kashkuli tribesmen and others. Deris is a large
village, with tome 100 tafen'gchis, ruled by Derodar Rajab. Pul-i-Abgineh is in
the independent control of Mohammed Ismail Khan, its Kedkhuda, who is a
near relation of the Kedkhuda of Kaluni in the Dasht-i-Barm. The Kura’-i-
Khzmseh were owned by the Imam Juma of Shiraz, but the Kashkuli and
Farsimetian Khans forcibly tfcol| possession of them in the autumn of 19n.

C. C B. P., Slain. flo. C. sa P.