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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [337v] (679/686)
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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ZUH—ZUH
manshah, annexed it to the crown of Persia. At the treaty concluded
between Persia and the Porte in 1823, it was stipulated that the dis
tricts acquired by either party during the war should be respectively
surrendered, and that the ancient frontier line should be restored, which
had been established in the time of the Safavi monarchs. According
to a subsequent treaty, Zuhab ought certainly to have been given up
to the Turkish authorities, but Persia had neither the will to render
this act of justice, nor had the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Baghdad the power to enforce
it; and Zuhab, although still claimed by the Porte, has thus remained
to the present day in possession of the government of Karmanshah.
“Zuhab having been acquired in war is Khalisah,or crown land. It
has been usually farmed by the government of Karmanshah, at an
annual rent of 8,000 tumans (£4,000) to the chief of the Guran tribe,
whose hardy Iliyats inhabit the adjoining mountains, and are thus at
all times ready to repel an attack of the Osmanlis. The amount of
its revenues must depend, in a great measure, upon the value of rice
and corn, its staple articles of produce ; but in years of plenty, when
the price of these commodities is at the lowest possible rate, a consi
derable surplus will still remain in the hands of the lessee. The re
venue system in this district is simple, and more favourable to the cul
tivators than in most parts of Persia. It is thought derogatory to the
chief to take any part of the cultivation into bis own immediate hands.
He distributes grain to his dependants, and at the harvest receives as
his share of the produce of rice two-thirds of corn in consequence of
the water consumed in its irrigation, which is the property of the land
lord or of government, and is rarely to be obtained without consider
able expense and labour.
“ The rice-grounds of Zuhab are chiefly irrigated by an artificial
canal, brought from the Halwan river, a distance of about 10 miles.
The canal is said to have been an ancient work, but was repaired and
rendered available for its present purposes only about a hundred years
ago by the same
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who subsequently built the town of Zuhab.
“ The revenues accruing to the chief averaged 10,000 tumans aunual-
ly, of which the following is a rough statement:—
From produce of rice, 2,000 kharwars, at 2 turaans per kharwar
Ditto wheat and barley, 2,500 kharwars, at 1 tuman per kharwar ...
Kent of the caravansarai of Sar-i-Pul, which includes the transit duty
upon merchandise and the profits arising from a monopoly of the
sale of grain to the Karbelai pilgrims ...
Rent of the caravansarai of Kasr-i-Shirln ...
Contract for the darughah-gari of Zuhab; the emoluments of this arising
-rom the rent of shops in the Zuhab bazar, and several petty items
of taxation ,,, • r j
Fees exacted from the iliyat of Kurdistan for permission to pasture
their flocks during the winter in the grazing-grounds of Zuhab ...
browth ot cotton, rent of mills, orchards, and melon-grounds, value
of pasturage, &c., &c. ... ttt °
Tumans.
4,000
2,500
1,000
200
800
1,000
500
Total ... 10,000
h ndei the Turkish rule Zuhab yielded, with its dependencies, an
annua sum of 30,000 tumans, but it then included several fertile and
extensive districts, which are now detached from it, and there were also
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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)
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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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