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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎36r] (76/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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ARA—ARA
63
“ Prices .—The prices of mules 3^ years and upwards are slightly higher
than those of Isfahan and its neighbourhood, presumably owing to the
cheaper rates of forage in these districts. That of a two-year’old mule is from
hrdns 200 to krdns 250 less than the price asked at Isfahan for a working
animal at four years of age of the same class. The average prices of a
mule of 24 months would on this basis work out as follows :—
Rs.
Ordnance, about
. • ..
225
Baggage
..
125
Transport „
'..
90
“ The cost of transport per head from Dizful to Karachi would not
exceed Rs. 75.”
The currency, weights and measures are much the same as those of South
ern ’Arabistan (q.v.)\ but the Shushtar man is 15’487 lbs., and that of Dizful
16’969 lbs., both avoirdupois. The unit of distance is the farsakh, among
the Arabs often called a sd’at (hour), and is from 3^ to 4| English miles.
Communications.—For details in regard to communications by water,
vide this Gazetteer, Karun river, Ab-i-Shatait, Ab-i-Gargar, and Ab-I-Diz.
Besides these the following are the principal land routes either within or
passing through the province :—
1. Band-i-QIr to Shushtar, 2 stages, 32 miles (Persian telegraph line).
2. Band-i-QIr to Dizful via Kut Bandar, 3 stages, 57 miles.
Both the above are continual ions of a land route from Muhammareh
through Ahwaz and Wais, which follows the Persian telegraph line.
3. Shushtar to Dizful via Ab-i-Bid, 2 stages, 42 miles.
4. Shushtar to Dizful via Kuvnak, 2 stages, 36 miles (Persian tele
graph line).
5. Dizful to Khurramabad, 14 stages, 157 miles.
6. Shushtar to Isfahan via Malamir, 16 stages, 308 miles.
7. Dizful to Muhammareh, by the right banks of the Ab-i-Diz and
Karun, 10 stages, 216 miles.
8. Dizful to Hawizeh, along banks of the Ab-i-Diz and Karkheh, 6
stages, 108 miles.
9. Dizful to ’Amarah (left bank of Tigris in Turkish territory), 5 stages,
114 miles.
10. Dizful to Baghdad via Zorbatish and Mandali, 14 stages, 340 miles.
The two last routes are extremely precarious.
The Persian telegraph line connects Dizful with Shushtar and thence
with Ahwaz and Muhammareh. From Ahwaz a line connects with Bushire
via Ramuz, Behbehan and Borazjun.
Administration .—The whole province of ’Arabistan, which includes the
northern and southern divisions, is nominally under a Persian Governor-
General appointed from Tehran. The seat of Government is also nominally
Shushtar. But of late years the Governors-General have spent most of
their time at Dizful more especially towards the end of their pro-Consulship,
by which period they have made themselves personally so unpopular as to
find a residence in the more turbulent town of Shushtar one of considerable
personal danger. Their chief object is to obtain the good will of a few power
ful individuals whose assistance will enable them to collect the revenue

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; 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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