1. Enlightening information on contemporary indigenous perspectives and policies is to be found in Stephanie Cronin, Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921–1941 (London: Routledge, 2006), 191–205.
2. For specific information about the Qashgai, in addition to Schulze-Holthus, Daybreak, see Lois Beck, The Qashqa’i of Iran (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986);
3. Oliver Garrod, ‘The Nomadic Tribes of Persia Today,’ Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 33, no. 1 (January 1946): 32–46, and ‘The Qashgai Tribe of Fars,’ Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 33, no. 3 (July 1946): 293–306;
4. Pierre Oberling, The Qashqa’i Nomads of Fars (The Hague: Mouton, 1974), and ‘Qashgai Tribal Confederacy,’ ELXAN (7 January 2004).
5. For more about the Bakhtiari, see Gene R. Garthwaite, ‘The Bakhtiyari Ilkhani: An Illusion of Unity,’ International Journal of Middle East Studies 8, no. 2 (April 1977): 145–60.