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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎330r] (664/1278)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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PAR—FAR
agricultural, as distinct from the nomadic, districts round it approximates
to 140,000 witlt a density of 40 per square mile. Of these about 100,000
or 20,000 families are agriculturists. Taking an average from the static
tics of some 50 villages north of Shiraz obtained in 1907 by an official of
the Indo-European Telegraph Department (and checked with satisfactory
results by the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. in 1911), it seems that the average crop of wheat and
barley per house in a village is about 1,200 mans Shirazi, or 9,000-Ifes. ;
if half be available for sale to the outside public, the produce destined for
the market would be about 2 tons per house, or 40,000 tons for Shiraz and
°0 miles round.* Of this quantity half should be available for the use
of an occupying force in a normal year, though of course prices would go
up rapidly if so large a quantity were needed. In a bad year, 10,000 tons
should be available. Assuming the requirements of a cavalry brigade with
transport to be about 20 tons a day of wheat and barley, I deduce that a
force of this size is about the maximum, which, it can be safely assumed,
could live on the country as far as grain is concerned ; a rather large number
of infantrymen could be supplied, but it might be necessary occasionally
to feed them on barley flour.
Stratv. Turning to the question of straw, I am unable to say what pro -
portion of straw is produced to a given quantity of grain, nor can I give
e\ en an estimate of the proportions of wheat and barley grown, and it is
the straw of wheat that is required as bhusa. Were the force to come
up in early spring, grazing could be extensively resorted to, etc., and large
quantities of grass laid in ; straw is awkward to carry long distances and
difficult to store. The commander of a force at Shiraz would have to
send out mules under escort to districts two marches distance from the
town to collect straw and would have to make careful arrangements in
advance for storing it.
Flour.—It has been shown elsewhere that the population round Shiraz
is well over 100,000 ; the bulk of them eat bread made of flour ; there
should in consequence be no difficulty in providing 10,000 men with flour,
as long as native agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. is not relied on to bring in the wheat from the
districts. Flour is never stored in large quantities ; the wheat is sent to
the mill to be ground in small quantities as required. Mills are numerous
round Shiraz, and there should be no difficulty in hiring one or more for
the use of a force. It is very uneconomical to purchase flour ; it is better
to buy wheat and have it ground under supervision ; this is the only way
of obtaining good flour with certainty ; bran and barley are largely used
as adulterants.
Gunny bags are practically unobtainable in Shiraz ; the local equivalents
are not obtainable in large quantities and though very strong and dur
able, are expensive. Gunnies should therefore be brought by a force of
whatever size entering the country.
Meat. Is a commodity comparatively little subject to fluctuation in
price m Persia. The supply is very large and of very good quality. If the
force arrives early in spring flocks could be brought and kept till needed ;
fin rnJ!^ W !^ at P °V£ e coun PT f0 miIes round Shiraz was estimated in 1893 at over
w,UX) tons (Gazetteer of Pers a—Shiraz).

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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).

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 towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, 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.

The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.

Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.

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1 volume (635 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 637; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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