Gene Garthwaite is Professor of History and Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including The Persians.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter IA historical and theoretical surveyChapter IIThe Bakhtiyari and nomadismChapter IIIThe khans and the tribal structureChapter IVThe Bakhtiyari and the state through the eighteenth centuryChapter VThe Bakhtiyari and the nineteenth centuryChapter VIThe post-1882 BakhtiyariSupplement “Kitabchah” (translation)NotesBibliographyIndex

"A remarkable piece of work which should be of great interest both to scholars and to the general educated public. It is an inherently interesting and topical book"Ernest Gellner.

Gene Garthwaite is Professor of History and Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including The Persians.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter IA historical and theoretical surveyChapter IIThe Bakhtiyari and nomadismChapter IIIThe khans and the tribal structureChapter IVThe Bakhtiyari and the state through the eighteenth centuryChapter VThe Bakhtiyari and the nineteenth centuryChapter VIThe post-1882 BakhtiyariSupplement “Kitabchah” (translation)NotesBibliographyIndex

"A remarkable piece of work which should be of great interest both to scholars and to the general educated public. It is an inherently interesting and topical book"Ernest Gellner.

Gene Garthwaite is Professor of History and Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including The Persians.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter IA historical and theoretical surveyChapter IIThe Bakhtiyari and nomadismChapter IIIThe khans and the tribal structureChapter IVThe Bakhtiyari and the state through the eighteenth centuryChapter VThe Bakhtiyari and the nineteenth centuryChapter VIThe post-1882 BakhtiyariSupplement “Kitabchah” (translation)NotesBibliographyIndex

"A remarkable piece of work which should be of great interest both to scholars and to the general educated public. It is an inherently interesting and topical book"Ernest Gellner.