The Nāṣirī Generations 271.4.4

271.4.4

They are Nairun Mughals beyond the shadow of a doubt, and yet the author of the 'Mongols Proper' informs us, at p. 703, 'I have small doubt that they were Turks, for although small clans still survive among the Mongols who are called Khongkiras (i.e. Kunkurat), by Ssanang Setzen, there is no tribe among them which bears the name, while we find that one of the four main divisions of the Uzbegs is called Kiat Kungrat,” etc., etc. The author has made a very delightful muddle here. The Kungkur-ats are truly Turks of the Mughal i-mak, but Nairun Mughals, of which Kaiat is one of the two great divisions, and perhaps he is not aware that the Uzbaks are Mughals, whence the term Kaiat-Kungkur-at. There are Kungkur-ats, Ilan-julis, and many other tribes mentioned in these notes, still to be found in Turkistan and Mughalistan. Mir ’Abd-ul-Karim, Bukhari, who wrote in 1222 H. — 1807 A.D. — continually refers to them in his work; and some of the Kashghar Mission actually met a “Kirghiz who was a Nayman,” and “Yulduz Kalmyk who are Turgut and Koshot!”