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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎336v] (677/706)

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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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660
ZANGANEH
The Xandulehl and Chehri are sedentary at Kanduleh and Chehr.
The other Zanganehs have their Yaildqs in the plains of Mahidasht, and
Talandasht. Their Qishldqs are near Shir van.
By their mild and equitable rule the family of the Zahlr-ul-Mulk have
been able to keep the chiefship of this tribe for more than two centuries.
The Zanganehs are known for their attachment to their ruling family and
are said to obey blindly any orders the latter may give them.
The regiment known as the Zanganeh regiment is composed as follows :—•
Kanduleh, 2 companies.
Osmanavand, 1 company.
Shamshlr Chubin, 1 company.
Namavand, 2 companies.
KarkukI, 1 company.
Chehri, 1 company.
Most of the Zanganeh country is milledyat, Kanduleh is khdliseh or Crown
property. The Zanganehs are said to be able to turn out 200 sowars or
horsemen.
Regarding the Zang.meh of Kirmanshah, Mr. T. C. Plowden in 1900 says :
“ As Sartip of the Zanganeh and Nanekali tribes, Zahlr-ul-Mulk main
tains for service of the State one regiment of infantry and 150 cavalry. I
saw the infantry under canvas outside the walls of Kirmanshah. They had
just been mobilised, and were under orders for the frontier. The men
were miserably dressed, and could not for a moment compare with the Tur
kish Infantry at Baghdad. They were armed with German muskets. The
Zanganeh country is milkiyat; it yields nothing to the State, for the land
revenue from it is absorbed in paying the . expenses of the foot and horse
levies under Zahir-ul-Mulk’s command.”
Not only does the Zanganeh country yield nothing to the State, but^.
Zahlr-ul-Mulk draws annually on the Kirmanshah Government to balance
his accounts. The Zanganehs are Shl’ahs.
The cavalry under Zahlr-ul-Mulk is formed as follows
Nanekali .. .. .. 50 horsemen.
Ahmadavand Behtui .. .. 100
The real tribe of Zanganehs only consists of a very limited number of
families and is divided into Zanganehs, who inhabited the plain of Mahi
dasht a few farsakhs to the east of the caravansarai of Mahidasht, and
Namavands, who inhabit the villages of Namavand about 4 or 5 farsakhs to
the west of the said caravansarai.
The rest of the Zanganeh tribe, as at present constituted, is composed
of small tribes and of villages, who through having to supply contingents
to the Zanganeh regiment have in some sort of way got attached to the
Zanganeh tribe.
(kor 1 ist of villages, and further details see Rabino’s Gazetteer of
Kirmanshah, 1907.)
ZANGANEH—
A village on the Daulatabad-Sultanabad road, 100 houses, it is situated
in the Malayar district, a prosperous place with a good deal of cultivation,
water good and plentiful.—(AfcZaciWan.)

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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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