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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎56r] (116/504)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (249 folios). It was created in 1907. 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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BAGH-TIGHUN or BAGH TUHUN—Mab'dasKt.
A villao*e of the Mahidasht district. Malyat Krs. 146 cash and Kh. 5
-ix fc>
grain.
BAHMIAN—Zohab.
A village in the plain of Zohab. {De Morgan).
BAH RAM—Bala Durband.
A village of the Bala Darband district. Malayat Krs. 164-352 dinars
cash.
BAH It AM—Zohab.
A village 1 farsakh from Kalleh Sabzi on the road to Khanekin. Kat-
khoda : Bahrain. 10 houses. Sinjabis. Cultivation : gram. [L. Leleux) %
BAKHSHALI—Mahidasht.
A village in the Mahidasht plain. It forms part of Haftashian.
BAHRAMAVAND— Lurs.
A small tribe settled at Sar-Firuzabad. Its Malyat was Ts. 200, but this
has been reduced to Ts. 13(b as h
BAHTYAR AV AN D—Zengeneh.
The Bahtyaravands are a branch of the Sinjabis, hut have severed their
connection with the tribe and are now attached to the Zenguenehs. The
Bahtyaravands who have remained as a small tribe and inhabit the villages
of Siah-Siah-Gurgabi, Temtem, Birda and Gumishtar, furnish some 50
sowars to the Government and are under the authority of Znhir-al-vMulk,
Zemmeneb. Their chief is Reza Sultan.
Some Bahtyaravands have settled in other villages of the district of Ker-
manshah or Baladeh, such as in Sar-Ab-Nilufar, Shahini, etc.
The tribe is settled on the frontier line of the Kermamhah and Kurdistan
provinces, near Mian Darband.
BAJLAN—
The Bailans, under Persian rule, barely number 200 families. Their
chiefs are Aziz Khan at Kurretu and Kader Aga at Bishkan. Kader^ Aga
and Aziz Khan are constantly at feud one with the other. Rader Aga s son
was killed in March 1902. To prevent the frequent recurrence of fights and
effusion of blood the Governor of Kermanshah has removed Kader Aga Irom
Bishkan to Kurretu, thus separating the rival families.
The Baiilans are Sunnis. # . . .
The Banians occupy the territory which extends from Kasr i-Shirtn to the
frontier. As a pretection against the incursions of Jafts, Kader Aga has a
post of 50 horsemen, at Bishkan a Kal leading from the north of the plain of
Zohab to the plain of Sarkalleh. Aziz Khan has a post of 100 horsemen at
1 Accordin°- to Sir H. Kawlinson, the Bajlans are said, with the connivance
of the Government of Kermanshah, to have been driven out by the Gurans
from Darnah in about the year 1700 and to have been obliged to confine
themselves to the plains, in which, shortly afterwards, the Bajilan Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
founded the town of Zohab. p , . , npnhirv
The 1885, Gazetteer says the Bajilans are refugees of the last century,
from the vicinity of Mosul.

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Gazetteer of the province of Kermanshah, Persia [Iran], compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino, Vice-Consul at Resht [Rasht] at the time of the gazetteer’s publication in 1907, and who had been Acting Consul at Kermanshah during 1904 and 1905. The gazetteer, which is marked for official use only, was issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff of the Government of India, and published at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla [Shimla]. At the front of the volume is an introduction by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, Acting Quartermaster General for Intelligence, dated 22 March 1907, and a preface by the author, dated 24 June 1904, with notes on the transliteration system used (folios 4-5).

The gazetteer includes five appendices, numbered I to V, as follows:

  • appendix I, a translation from the French original of a description of the road from Kermanshah to Mendali [Mandalī], via Harunabad [Eslāmābād-e Gharb] and Gilan [Sarāb-e Gīlān], as recorded in a journal by Leon Leleux, Inspector General of Customs at Kermanshah;
  • II, a translation from the Persian original of a description of the villages in the immediate vicinity of the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). of Mahidasht, written by the Mirza of Customs at Mahidasht;
  • III, a vocabulary of terms;
  • IV, a list of the principal roads from Baghdad to Teheran via Kermanshah, with distances given in miles and farsakhs;
  • V, a list of the notables of Kermanshah.

The gazetteer contains extensive extracts from a range of sources, including: an earlier, unspecified gazetteer, published in 1885; various works on Persia by British Government officials (including Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, the Viceroy of India George Nathaniel Curzon, Captain George Campbell Napier); published works by a number of scholars and explorers of Persia (notably Trevor Chichele Plowden, Jacques De Morgan, Henry James Whigham, and James Baillie Fraser); reports from other sources, including Leleux, and the Mirza of Customs at Mahidasht.

Some of the appendices’ pages appear to have been mixed up. Included among them are: a genealogical table of the princes of Kermanshah (f 239); and hierarchical tables listing the chiefs of the principal tribes of the province of Kermanshah (ff 244-245).

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1 volume (249 folios)
Arrangement

The gazetteer’s entries are arranged alphabetically. An index at the front of the volume (folios 6-45) lists entries alphabetically, taking into account variations in the spelling of names. This index refers to the volume’s original pagination sequence.

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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 250; 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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