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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎405r] (814/982)

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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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SHA—SHA
799
and to have been first placed in charge of Shabankareh in the reign of Karim
Khan Zand. Isina il Khan is about 55 years of age ; his nearest heirs are two
sons Muhammad AH Khan and Lutf ’AH Khan, besides whom he has two
brothers, Rustam Khan and Ahmad Khan. The Khan at present pays 5,500
tumdns a year for the farm of the district; he manages it through the Kad-
khudas or headmen of the villages. There are no arrangements for the
administration of justice, and private retaliation of injuries is the rule,though
to a certain extent disputes are adjusted by the Khan, by village-headmen
and local Kazis and Mullas. Land-revenue is collected at the rate of 60
krdns per 6 Hashim man of seed sown ; this works out at about 5 Jcrans per
acre. There is also a cash tax on dates, equal to J of the value of the pro
duce, and an annual poll-tax of one Jcrdn per man is collected in addition.
There is no official directly representing the Persian Government in the
district. Supplementary information regarding the method of Government
and local factions is given in the article on Bushire, vide this Gazetteer.
Topography. —The following is a list of the principal villages of the
ghabankareh district. A description of most is given separately in this
Gazetteer under its own name:—
1. Anjlru.
2. ’Atlbeh.
3. Bahramabad.
4. Band Muhammad ’Ab
dullah.
5 . BasrI.
6. Bunarl Qaid.
7. Bunarl SulaimanT.
8. Buvairl.
9. Chahdul.
10. Chah Mushki.
11. Chah Zangl.
12. Cham Darval.
13. Cham Tangu.
14. Chehar Burj.
15. Chehil GazI ’Ajam.
16. Cheh 1 GazI ’Arab,
17. Dehdaran HajI
’Abdul ’AH.
18. Dehdaran HajI
Farumeh.
19. Deh Kuhneh.
20. Darval Pal Bud.
21. DashtT.
22. Kaleh-i-Rustam
KhanT.
23. Khalifeh.
24. Khlarzar,
25. Laipeh.
26. Mukabarl.
27. Muhammad JamalL
28. Seh Kunar.
29. Samleh.
30. Shahpiru.
31. Turkakl.
32. Zakarlai.
( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHADURVAN (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A reservoir situated a little way north of the town of Shushtar, Khdzistan,
at the bifurcation of the river Karun.— (Chesney.)
SHADURVAN (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A famous pavement in the Gargar river near Band-i-QIr in 'Khuzistan.
It was made of huge stones, jointed with lead, to prevent the washing
away of the soil and a consequent fall of the river. A dam built across the
new river raises the water on to the Shadurvan, forming a water fall
when it gets to the end. (Schindler.)
SHAGHAB Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Bushire peninsula (q. v.).
SHAHABAD (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in Kirman, about 45 miles west of Zarand and 13 miles west of
he T? ™ We ?V ha t P Iace and An5r - « reported to contain
200 bouses, with 1,200 inhabitants.-^, 1894-/r« information.)
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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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