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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎506r] (1016/1278)

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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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some. Sir H. Rawlinson fancied from the marked Jewish cast of counten
ance that they might be decendants of the Samaritan captives who were
placed in the Assyrian city of Kalhur Halah, identified with Sai-i-Pu3-i-
Zuhab, on the main road from Baghdad to Kirmanshah. They are variously
reported to be ’All Illahls and Shl’ahs.
The land occupied by the Kalhur is milkuat (or “ private property ”),
i.e., the proprietary right is vested in a chief of the tribe, and not in the
Shah of (except when they have bought their fields for money) in indivi
dual members of the tribe. It rests with the chief to distribute the land
for cultivation as he pleases. The usual arrangement in case of ddi land
is for the raiyat to provide all the labour and seed ; after the corn crop
has been threshed, he takes as his own share two-thirds of the gross-produce,
leaving the remaining third for the mdlik (or “ owner ”).
When the land is daim the cultivator takes three shares out of the four.
The cultivator also pays as mdlidt an annual sum in cash, which varies
in amount according to his own supposed capabilities and the exigencies
or rapacity of the mdlik.
The relations of the chief with the Government are of a two-fold character :
first, he is Sartip (or Colonel-in-chief) of the military contingent which
the tribe has to furnish ; secondly, he is Hakim (or Civil Governor) of the
Kalhur country, and is responsible “for the revenue (mdlidt) due from the
landed possession of the tribe. The appointment of Sartip is made by the
Shah, and that of Hakim by the Governor of Kirmanshah, consequently
the two appointments are not always united in the same individual. The
military force, which the Sartip of the Kalhur is properly bound to furnish
for the service of the State, consists of a regiment of fcot 800 strong and
some cavalry, but in practice he only maintains 100 infantry and a personal
cavalry escort some 200 strong. The ruling family of the Kalhurs belong
to the Shahbazi clan. In 1892 the chief of the Kalhurs was Riza Quli
Khan.* The chiefs, like all the Kurdish chiefs, are always ready to take
refuge in Turkish territory, and it is doubtful if the Persian Government
could trust them in case of need.
The tribe own some 1,500 breech-loading rifles ; up till quite recently
they paid taxes 49,400 krdns, receiving back 50,000 krdns pay of the regi
ment, they now have to pay 250,000 krdns and get nothing back as pay of
the regiment. The tribe leave their winter quarters about May, and move
to the high ground. They commence to return in October, and by the
end of that month have all left their summer quarters. They are civil
and inoffensive to the accredited European traveller, but whether they
are so to the Persian one is doubtful. A considerable number of horses
and mules are reared by them, the chief being said to own 400 mares and
250 mules, while a vastly larger amount are dispersed amongst the various
branches of the tribe. They own vast flocks of sheep and goats which,
at the moderate allowance of 20 to each ten, number not less than 126,000.
In their annual migrations donkeys, of which there are great numbers,
not less than two or three per cent, are the chief means of transport.—
(Schiel — Rawlinson—Curzon — Preece — V aughan.)
* The present chief (1J03) is Daiid Khaa, who is said to bo able, to put 4,©00 mcumted
men in the field.

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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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