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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [108v] (221/706)
The record is made up of 1 volume (349 folios). It was created in 1914. 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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204
GUR—GUR
The principal summer resort (yarlaq) of the Gurans is the Mount Dalahu
and its surroundings, where they pass the summer.
The Gurans are divided into six principal branches or dasta :—
(1) Gahvarreh;
(2) Baziani (tufangchi);
(3) Niriji; (Narizhi);
(4) Qalkhanl;
(5) Bibiani or Buyani;
(6) the two small Jaf tribes known as Jaf-i-Qadr-Mir Waisi and
Jaf-i-Taishi.
Total forces of the whole tribe on all reckonings, at the lowest possible
estimate :—1,000 horse, and 3,500 armed foot. Large number of Guran
not included in above are separated from their tribes, but would rejoin in
time of general danger. All the Gurans are notably courageous and able
fighting men.
The chiefs of the tribe are Shi’ahs. The first six branches are ’Ali Ilahls
and the Nairizh T s and Jafs are Sunnis.
These latter, who have settled in the plain of Sarkaleh north of Zuhab,
are Jafs who have separated from the great Jaf tribe of Sulaimameh. Mah
mud
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, chief of the great Jaf tribe, has lately made great efforts to induce
the Jafs, who have joined the Gurans, to return to his rule, and has threatened
them with severe reprisals should they refuse.
The Gurans furnish a regiment of infantry, divided into 8 companies,
each normally 100 strong, with a ‘ Sultan , at the head of each. The regi
ment has no band.
The following are the names of the ‘ Sultans ’ and some details concerning
the tribes :—
Tribe.
Sultan or chief
in 1912.
Strength of tribe.
Winter quarters.
Summer quar
ters.
Gahvarreh
Ghulam ’AH
Khan, Shuja’-
ul-mulk.
50 horse, 100
foot.
Sedentary in
Zuhab
Gahvai reh town.
Tufangchi
Jahan Bakhsh
Sultan Yavar
800 foot.
do.
Takht-i-Geh.
Nairizhi
Safar Khan
60 horse, 300
foot.
Bajlan
Gahvarreh.
Qalkhanl
Qambar Sultan
300 horse, 700
foot.
Zuhab and Baj
lan.
Kaleh Zanjir
Bibiani
Mirza Beg
—
—
Jaf-Qadir Mir
Waisi and
Talhsx.
*Ali Beg Sultan
100 horse, L000
foot.
Bajlan
Daiaku.
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The item is Volume II of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1914 edition).
The volume comprises the north-western portion of Persia, bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north by the Russo-Persian frontier and Caspian Sea; on the east by a line joining Barfarush, Damghan, and Yazd; and on the south by a line joining Yazd, Isfahan, and Khanikin.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements (towns, villages, provinces, and districts); communications (roads, bridges, halting places, caravan camping places, springs, and cisterns); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, valleys, mountains and passes). Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, resources, trade, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
A Note (folio 4) makes reference to a map at the end of the volume; this is not present, but an identical map may be found in IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/1 (folio 636) and IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2 (folio 491).
Printed at the Government of India Monotype Press, Simla, 1914.
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- 1 volume (349 folios)
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The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 351; 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 also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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