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'Report on Kurdistan' [67r] (138/220)
The record is made up of 1 volume (106 folios). It was created in 1911. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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DURADJI (Tribe)—
See tribes of Kurdistan.
DURRAGAN—
A village in Kurdistan about 39 miles south-south-west of Senna and on the road
from the Bilavar valley to Javanrud. It contains about 20 houses inhabit 0
by Kurds, Sunnis, and is high up on the southern slopes of the Kuh-Khagan.
Trees and cultivation : latter chiefly wheat; water plentiful from a stream ,
supplies : 50 cows, 200 sheep and goaXs.—{Vaughan.)
DURUGA—
A small village of 8 houses, 14 miles south of Senna, in a valley amongst
the hills, and | mile from the left bank of the Shirvan river. A few trees ; water
from two springs; supplies: sheep. Not a suitable place, on accoun o i
hilly nature, for troops to camp.— (Burton.)
DUSHAN (Hubitu)—
A village of the district of Hubitu.— (GWnmen* list.)
DUVEISSEH (Hubitu)—
A village of the district of Hubitu.— (Government list.)
DUVEISSEH—
A village 4 farsakhs from Darreh-Khoshkeh and 3 from Senna, on t e
Merivan-Senna road. Other information says 15£ farsakhs hom Menva
and 44 from Senna to the left of the Merivan-Senna road.— (Customs.)
A village in Persian Kurdistan, containing 100 houses^ about 11 miles from
Senna on the road thence to Sulaimanieh. The inhabitants of this village
are mostly engaged in trade, not agriculture. The men are carriers, and ar
employed m charge of the caravan which passes between SulmmanieKSenna
and Hamadan. The village belongs to the uncle of the Vazir of Kmdista
and nays only a light assessment of 100 tumans per annum ; the revenue,
according to the standard imposed on other villages, would be about three timea
that sum. The people are Sunnis, and, like the Kurds m general, entertain
a special reverence for Abd-ul-Kader Gilani, whose masjid and tomb are at
Baghdad. They call him their Imam, their Khahfeh.
The price of wheat at Duveisseh was 2 tumans per 100 Tabrizi maunds.
and of barley l£ tumans.—(T. 0. Plowden, 1881.)
A village in Kurdistan of 200 houses, 18 miles west of Senna.—(Gerar .)
DUZA— „ ,
A village in Kurdistan on a small stream 70 miles from Senna on the road
to Hamadan.— (Kinneir.)
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Confidential report compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino. The report was printed in Simla at the Government Monotype Press, 1911.
The report is divided into three parts (I-III), as follows:
Part I: Geographical and Commercial Notes (folios 6-39) with sections on the province of Kurdistan (including information on cultivation, population, revenue, roads, imports/exports, and the capital, Senna), its tribes (including statistics on population, land, and residences), rivers, and mountains, and appendices comprised of government lists of villages.
Part II: History (folios 40-54) with a chart showing the Valis and Provincial Governors of Kurdistan for the years 1169-1905 (folio 41).
Part III: Gazetteer of Kurdistan (folios 55-104) arranged alphabetically.
At the back of the volume is a glossary (folios 105-06) including notes on the weights used in Kurdistan.
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- 1 volume (106 folios)
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There is a contents page at the front of the volume (f 5) which refers to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 108; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- 'Report on Kurdistan'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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