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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [201v] (407/706)
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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390
KURDI-KURDS
the proprietor takes two, the cultivator ten, the latter paying
all expenses. r j &
Yusuf Sharif says the soil is saturated with water and that water can be
obtained anywhere by digging two or three feet.
The chief produce of Kurdistan is wheat, gram, barley, rice, cotton, and
tobacco (this last m great abundance); vegetables: pumpkins and gourds,
cucumbers, brinjals, lettuce, beetroot, cauliflower, potatoes, onions and
garlic ; fruits : melons, water-melons, cherries (about five kinds), grapes
apples, plums, peaches and walnuts. & ^ »
The great want of the district is fuel which is everywhere very scarce
and dung is carefully preserved as a substitute.
The women of Kurdistan are beautiful, and are of fair complexion. No
black faces are to be seen among them. They do not wear the veil, but
go about freely like European women. The marriageable age is from 12
to 15 for women and from 18 to 20 for men. The prevailing complaint
is ophthalmia and other kindred diseases, at least 25 per cent, of the entire
population suffer from these ailments.
For Trade Returns see Rabino’s “ Report on Kurdistan, 1911.”
Commumcations.-~Snmeh is the centre of several routes ; to Hamadan 5
s ages, to Kirmanshah 4 stages, to Zuhab 8 stages. For further particulars
see under the headings Baneh, Saqqlz and Marivan.—( Plowden ; Yusuf
Sharif ; Cwzon ; Schindler, 1910 ; Rabino, 1911, Soane, 1912).
KURDKANDI—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 8 miles south west of Sardarud on
road, thence to Mareigheh.—(Schindler.)
the
KURD KANDI—
A wretched village of Azarbaijan, a few miles east of Kaleh, and two stages,
40 miles, east of Tabriz on the Tabriz-Ardabil road.— (Thielmann.)
KURD KISHZAI—
about 18 miles west ° £ Ardabu - ° n the r ° ad
KURDS—
Shir 6 - ^ bitants of Kl J r di8tan are illiterate but bigoted Sunnis of the
flrTw n T ° - th , e ^ our sub-divisions of orthodox Mussulmans. They
are not really fanafacal, but become bigoted from being in daily contact with
a Shiah people. The root of the Persian Kurdish question whenever it
becomes acute is the religious hatred between Sunni and Shi’ah and the
Some 0 f t th / ^ betWeeD “—bs and Christiana^
Illahi ( ? t) arerL fo"nd 6 ^ “ P kce8 the ’ Ali
^rsi’r^In Kurdistan (Arda^n)
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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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