![]() | Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran Subjects: Bakhtiari (Iranian people) -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century; Bakhtiari (Iranian people) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Zagros Mountains Region (Iran and Iraq) -- History -- 19th century; Isfahan Region (Iran) -- History -- 19th ce; Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their territory to the outside world. As the Qajar dynasty sought to integrate the peoples on its margins into the state, the British Empire made commercial inroads into the once inaccessible mountains on the frontier between Iran and Iraq. The distance between the state and the tribes was narrowed through imperial projects that included the building of a road through the mountains, the gathering of geographical and ethnographic information, and the exploration for oil, which culminated during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. |
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