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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [196v] (397/982)
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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m
HIN-HTN
Trihe.
Villages.
Number
of
souls.
Remarks.
Ghalibi ..
Lover Gargari
125
Immigrated about 1899 from
Behbehan in consequence of
bad treatment there.
Gurgi
Haid arl • •
i
Sahababad
200
•'• • •
Jirl .. <.
500
By religion they are Sunnis. They
are said to have come from the
Rudhilleh district about 1845,
but the cause is not known.
Ja’farl
Jabirabad, Kapar-
kah, and Nasirabad.
850
Came from Kuhg'li about 1845
in consequence of a famine.
K’ab
Both Gharabis, Hin
dian town and Deh
Mulla.
1,550
Vide this Gazetteer, K’ab Arabs.
In this district they are called
Shan s.
LakI «. • •
Asiab, Lower Gargari
and Suwaireh.
1,025
Said to have immigrated from
Khurramabad about 1800. They
were originally known as ‘ N dir
Shah’s LakI ”, which perhaps
may indicate that they were
among the followers whom the
death of that sovereign dis
persed. By some accounts they
are of Afghan origin.
NidharJt .. ..
Buzi and Kut
1,000
Said to have immigrated from
Central Arabia in the beginning
of the seventeenth century.
Qanawatl .. •»
Chehil Man', Dar'ihak,
Gaz ’AL, Hindun
town, Husainabid
Cham Kalgeh,
Cham Khalaf ’Isa,
Cham Khamab,
Deh Mulla and
Zulmabad.
4,500
Now the principal tribe of
the district. They are said
to have immigrated 50 years
ago from Behbehan to escape
oppression. According to tra
dition their original home was
in the neighbourhood of Kufa.
Sharif at ..
Sh r ibad and Hindian
town.
850
Vide this • Gazetteer-—Sharfit.
About 600 nomad Sharlfat
come to Kaleh-i-MashrakI in
the harvest season.
Shir ’All ..
Upper Gargari
150
Came from Behbehan about 1899
in consequence of ill-treatment.
It will be seen that the Qanawatis enjoy a great numerical predomin
ance.
Agriculture.—Cultivation is confined to the vicinity of the river. From
Deh Mulla downwards it is all Daimi, that is, dependent on rainfall : above
it is Fdridb or irrigated. There appears to be no impediment to the con
struction of canals on the lower course of the river, apart, from the poverty
and indolence of the cultivating classes. The nature of the canals is
noticed in the article on the Hindian river (q.v.). On the Lanjir canal
rice is grown; elsewhere the chief cereals are wdieat and barley, the
quantity of wheat standing to that of barley in the proportion of 4 to 1.
Other common crops are beans, sesame and linseed (kitan buzurg), musk-
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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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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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