1. United Kingdom, Naval Intelligence Division, Persia, Middle East Intelligence Handbooks 1943–1946, 5 (Gerrards Cross: Archive Editions, 1987), 338.
2. Ibid., 337–8. 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.
3. 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);
4. 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;
5. Pierre Oberling, The Qashqa’i Nomads of Fars (The Hague: Mouton, 1974), and ‘Qashgai Tribal Confederacy’, ELXAN (7 January 2004). For more about the Bakhtiari,