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26 ANNUAL REPOET OP 1HE PERSIAN GULP POLITICAL RESIDENCY
and at Hasan Poki, 12 miles East of Chali Chaguk on tho Snidabnd-Tarun
in tho cold ; Salar Ashayir’s section graze round Dasht Ab aud Deh Sard*
tho summer and in the Daulatabnd-Urzu in tbo winter. There }laltl
however been no disturbances within tbo tribe during the year. Ve
Tho Buchaqchi tribe was quiet throughout under the chiefship of Mur
Khan 8hikuh-us-Sultan, brother of the rebel Hussain Khan who is still »
Tehran. The latter began applying to His Majesty’s Legation both direct!
and through Sardar Jang, immediately after the Armistice was declared, to 1/
allowed to return to Kerman province. As ho is known to be in close *toucn
with the Democrats bore and would undoubtedly be used by them as a rally
ing point if he returned, His Majesty’s Consul deprecated tho proposal.
Jiruft— For the first two months of the year .Jiruft was misgoverned by
Prince Nusrat-us-SuHaneh’B nominee Muhammad Taki Khan Bakhtiari, wbo.se
reckless exactions reduced the district to a state of anarchy. At tho end
February Yar Muhammad Khan and Jallal Khan, sons of Nawab Khan
Bameri, raided the length and breadth of the district with a large lashkar of
400 Baracris.and Sabikis. Mulitashim-ul-Mulk, Sardar Nusrat’s nephew and
agent in the district, called in the help of Zargkam-us-Sultaneh, Deputy
Governor of Rudbar, who attacked the Bameri chiefs at the end of the Jaz
Murian Hamun and recovered half the booty they had taken. Meanwhile
Muhammad Taki hsd ignominiously fled in the direction of Kerman ; after
the departure of the Prince Governor he was deposed and Adl-us-Sultaneh,
Sardar Nusrat's son, made Governor.
Rudbar.—Mir Barkat of Biaban and Muhammad Khan appeared in Basha-
kard with a lashkar early in February their avowed object being to prosecute
a blood feud against the heirs of Isl3in Khan. Their real intention
was merely to loot Rudbar. With the help of Muhtashim-ul-Mulk the
Zargham d:ove the invaders back. There appears to bo a kind of reciprocity
between Mnhiashim-ul-Mulk and the Rudbar Governor.
Jamal Bares.—Jamal Barez suffered fiom the depredations of Sanjar and
Pushtgudari raiders in the spring, and also from the activities of the energetic
and unpopular Revenue Agent. Muayid-ul-Mamalik. Ba>ts at Bam against
this official had little effect, but in September the Kavkanis revolted and called
in their Namdadi neighbours, thereby succeeding in restricting tho Revenue
Agent’s operations for a while.
Persian Baluchistan.—The reports regarding Pcrso-Baluch affairs uhich
reach Kerman under present conditions are both irregular and inaccurate.
It had been evident however that in the year under report the position of
Bahrain Khan of Bampar has been stronger than in 1917. Since the death
of Islam Khan in autumn 1917 be has continued in undisturbed possession of
the Bampur Khalisajat (Crown lands), also those of Daman and Abtar. Bint-
Geh and the other lands of Islam Khan continued in the possession of bi*
family and that of Sardar Said Khan. Bahrain Khan’s chief rival in the
"West is Nawab Khan, the Bameri Sardar, who leads a loose confederation of
Bameris, Sabikis, Naruis, etc. The blood-feud, which began in December 191G
with the killing of two of Bahram Khan’s kinsmen by Jallal Khan, son of
Nawab Khan, is intensified by religious feeling, Bahram Khan being a Sunni
and Nawab Khan a Shia.
Bam and Nartnashir.—In January Narmashir which had been 9uje*'
during the latter months of 1917 began once more to suffer from the depreda­
tions not only of the Baluch but also of local brigands. Up to that time,
since the Persian Government virtually abandoned Baluchistan in 1997-
the Narmasbir-Baluchistan marches had been policed by a nominal force
100 Levy (Jambaz) sowars kept up by the Bam Governor; the pay of this to
used to be divided among certain petty Balach chiefs of the border. The Qf
Government now suddenly abolished this arrangement, nor were the protes .
the Deputy Governor of Bam, Sardar Mujallal, of any avail though suPP°^on
by the Governor-General and His Majesty’s Consul. Finally, at the ?gtli
of Sardar Mnjallal, Brigadier-General 8ir P. Sykes visited Bain 00
February 1918 with Colonel Farran and His Majesty’s Consul and arr 5