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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [176r] (356/706)
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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KIRMANSHAH
339
into great divisions or tribes, each having its own winter an 1 summer
camping ground.* The chief Kurdish tribes in the province are die Kalhurs,
Gurans, Kuliai, Sinjabi, Karindi, Zanganeh and Aivanis.
All these Kurdish tribes used to be in far more affluent circumsfanoes,
yet now, with reduced numbers and greater poverty, they are mulcted to a
far greater extent than they were before.
Roujh estimate of the population of the province of Kirm Inshah.
Tribe or town.
Summer
quarters.
Winter
quarters.
Number of
families or
fighting men
of tribes.
Aivan
Luristan
Mandall.
2,000
Harasam ..
200
Hulailan ..
. .
• .
700
Samareh ..
. .
100
Zanganeh ..
Sedentary
in Mahldasht.
2,500
Osmanavand
400
Ahmadavand Behtui
. .
. .
400
Jelilavand..
. .
. .
300
Mlfi
. .
. .
200
Nanekali ..
300
Kuliai
Mostly sedentary in Sunqur.
4,000
Sahneh and dependencies ..
. •
700
Khudab mdehlu
. .
. .
500
Zouleh
. .
1,000
Gurans
Mahldasht.
S. of Karind.
5,000
Kalhurs
Harunabad.
Karind.
S.-W.of Kir
manshah.
12,000
Sharafbainl
1,000
Sinjabi
N. of Kirman
shah.
Mahldasht.
4,000
Karindi
N. of Karind.
Karind.
4,000
Bajlan
Zuhab.
200
Jelala vand
500
Chamchamal and Dlnavar
. .
3,000
Harsln and Duru-Faraman ..
3,000
Petty tribes of Mahldasht, etc.
. .
500
Kirmanshah
. .
12,000
Sarab
. #
500
Baladeh and Pairavands and Vastam ..
• •
3,000
In all about 60,000 fanrl es : at five persons per family, 300,000 inhabit
ants. Some people mention the population as 350,000, but it must be borne
in mind that this is only an approximation, as it is very difficult to get at
exact figures in Persia. The tribesmen will always return their tribe at a
lower figure, as they are afraid that the taxes may be levied for a large number
of families if they were to give an exact figure, which is even for them very
difficult to get at.
The nomad Kurds in winter have little to do in their villages, or settle
ments. They gather in the largest tent or house of the settlement, and
there, surounded by camels and cows, they listen to their mallat, or learned
one, who reads out to them Kurdish poems. The Kurdish literature dates
some 300 years back.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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