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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [‎48r] (100/686)

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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BAGH-I-SAD—Lat. Lon». Elev.
A fine garden in the outskirts of Taft on the Yazd side. It is in
the Plskkuh division of the Yazd district. There is a well-built house
with a high “badglr” in the garden. (MacGregor.)
BAGH-I-TAKHT—Lat. Long. Elev.
A garden situated about a mile north of Shiraz. (MacGregor.)
BAGHKHAN—Lat, Long. Elev.
The local name for the mountains which shut in on either side
the valley of the Cham-i-Garan in Kurdistan. They are sometimes
called the Kuh-i-Cham-i-Garan and form part of the great Zagros
range. It is traversed here by the Sahna-Sulimania road.
(Plowden.)
BAGHLAH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Khuzistan. The Hamudih tribe encamp there. (Boss.)
BAHADUR KHANI—
A clan of the Kashkai Iliyafs. It numbers about 1,000 families,
and possesses about 200 mules. Their feudal chiefs are Bahadur Khan
and his three brothers, and the sons of Sohrab Khan. They inhabit
the country from Garmapush and Bideh in Galadar to Yanak, in Ears.
(Boss, 1880.)
BAHAMISHIR. See Bahe-ul-Mashir.
BAHMAl or BAHMEHl—
A large subdivision of the Kuhgehlu tribe in Khuzistan. It contains
about 3,000 families who occupy the mountains adjoining the
Janiki Garmsjr, and the Janiki Sardsir. The residence of their
chief is Kala ’Ala, near the source of one of the branches of the Jarahl.
This tribe has about 2,000 excellent matchlockmen, and a small, but
very efficient, body of horsemen. They are the most notorious robbers,
and as ignorant and barbarous as any tribe in these mountains. The
shedding of blood is carried to a lamentable extent among them ; the
life of a man is no more valued than that of a sheep. They are treach
erous and deceitful; with them no oath is binding, and no traveller,
unless protected in the strongest way, should venture to go amongst
them. (Bayard.)
Baring says they belong to the Pusht-i-Kuh section of the Kuhgehlu
tribe. Their chiefs are Muhammad Hasan Khan and Jatfir Khan.
Ross says there are only 1,000 families in the clan, and that they
possess 200 mules.
The Bahmaiare reckoned among the most unruly of the mountaineers
of Ears: they number 2,000 families, and occupy the mountains
to the north-west of Bihbahan from the Tang-i-Saulek to the Maidan-
i-Patak. (DeBode.)
BAHMZARI—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Bushahr district, Ears, containing 250 houses of the
Haiat Daudi tribe. It pays a revenue of 300 tumans. (Belly.)
BAHRAIN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A large village in Lurisfan, where the Kamandab joins the Tahaj, or
river of Burujird, in the Silakhur valley. (Schindler.)

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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:

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.

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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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