Tribe and state: the "tribal problem" in Iran - The new state and the rural poor - The destruction of the tribal leaderships : the Great Khans of the Bakhtiyari - Challenges from within: Junior Khans, nomads and peasants in Bakhtiyari - Rural resistance: the tribal uprisings of 1929 - The politics of debt: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Bakhtiyari Khans - The politics of terror: the fall of Sardar Asad and the "Bakhtiyari plot" - Conclusion : the end of tribal politics in Iran - Appendix : tribal campaigns 1921-1941
Iran, Politics and government, 1925-1979
Tribes, Government policy, Iran
Bakhtiari (Iranian people), Politics and government