[citation needed] The exact number of Southern Lurs is unknown, due to the absence of recent and extensive census data.
The most recent documented statistics concerning their language are available for the year 1999, where is estimated about 900,000 ethnic population.
[11] The most famous person of Southern Lurs is Rais Ali Delvari, an independence fighter and anti-British colonialism activist who organized popular resistance against the British troops in this clashes, Rais Ali was killed .Then the Britishs used pro-British tribes to scatter the enemy into the hinterland.
At the end, local tribal leaders murdered the British vice consul (a Persian) in Shiraz.
[12] who fought for years against Reza Shah Pahlavi troops in Boyer Ahmad and Mamasani.