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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [7r] (18/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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" Inland the country is practically treeless, and labour to construct
piers, &c., not procurable.
“ For detailed information about Bushahr roadstead, see under that
heading/’
The following is an abridged account of the Persian
Gulf Trade, 1884: —
“ Grain .—The year 1884 disappointed the expectations which its
opening months tended to raise as regards trade in South Persia. An
unusually large rainfall in the cultivating season of 1883-84 gave
hopes of a splendid harvest, but later in the season unfavourable con
ditions of weather caused a partial blight of the grain, which turned out
of a harder description than usual, with a large proportion of shrivelled
grains. There occurred, however, no scarcity of Corn, as, besides a surplus
of the 1884 crops available for exportation, a good deal of the 1883
grain had been kept back. That shipments were on a moderate scale
was due chiefly to the fall of prices in European markets.
“ In the early part of 1884 London prices were good for well-cleaned
wheat, but, harvests everywhere having turned out abundant, prices soon
began to fall, and a reduction of 20 per cent, was observable from Febru
ary to August. In December a rise occurred, and the year 1885 opened
more favourably for t'.ie grain trade.
“ Persian agriculturists have the habit of mixing barley largely with
wheat, sometimes to the proportion of 50 per cent., and, as only well-
cleaned wheat was saleable last year in London, some Persian merchants
who neglected the precaution of sifting suffered losses. Wheat is now
cleaned by machinery in Bushahr. It is remarked that the fluctuations
of prices of grain in European markets do not, to a corresponding extent,
influence the local prices in Persia.
“ The operations of British merchants in exportation of wheat have
been greatly hampered, and, in fact, when very low prices ruled in
London, completely stopped, by levy of export duty both at the small
outports such as Bandar Rig and Dilam, and also at Bushahr, in addition
on final exportation. Large quantities of grain are purchaseable at Rig
and Dilam, though the wheat is said, as a rule, to be inferior in quality
to that brought from Dashti and other districts to the south.
“ Opium .—The next most important produce is opium. The crop of
last year was considerably damaged by rain, and the yield was under
the average and prices in the interior kept high. Less was consequently
shipped to London than usual. The Persian opium is said to be less
adulterated now than formerly, and to be therefore more popular in
European and American markets, competing well with Turkish opium.
Hostilities in China increased the demand for Persian opium in that
quarter.
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
- Arrangement
The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; 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.
Pagination: the volume has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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- Title
- ‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:340v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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