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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [86v] (177/504)
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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82
The Baziaais form also the private escort of the Goran chief and ar
named tufang'chiha. They inhabit the mountains to the north of
a ) vare n Ihey are said to supply occasionally 100 horsemen for the
seduce ot the State, and to be able to torn out some 400 to 500 horsemen
^ ll . ei )( ^*^ ^ ar tioi rihes incase of need, but I have not been able to
ODtam accurate information on the subject.
Paib of the revenue of Guran is retained by the chiefs to defray the
expenses of the regiment.
In 1S34 when British officers were attached to the Persian Army, Sir
-Henry Kawlinson raised a regiment of Gurans.
I he tribe is rich in sheep, goats and oxen, but has few horses and mares.
I neir land is mil hat.
Of this tribe. Sir Henry Rawlinson wrote as follows “ Shortly after the
ime o Sultan Miu ad, the Kalhor tribe, which had been driven out of
partang and Darnah, assumed to themselves the peculiar designation of
Uurans, which had been previously applied to the Kurdish peasantry as
distinguished from the elans ; and the=e Gurans at the same time, broke
into three dist,net tribes of Kalleh Zanju-i, Kerindi and B.waniji, the names
hemg derived from their several p'aees of residence. They are said, wiih
the connivance of the Government of Kermanshah, to have driven the
Kainans out of Darnah in about the year 1700, and to have obliged the
latter to confine themselves to the plains in which, shortly afterwards, the
Ha.] 11 an
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
founded the town of Zoliab })
OI P 0st . milmte inquiries and studies by Dr. Mann, it would appear
t.iac this dirtrict was m olden times inhabited by a sedentary population,
who spoke the so-called Tajik dialect of the interior of Persia. This popu
lation has been overpowered by the Kalhors and Zengenehs,and thus formed
a new tribe, under the name of Gurans. The sedentary families of the
Gurans have preserved their old language, whilst the nomad families sneak
’Ll t r and i l e 1 n §' eneh Kn rdi. Regarding this tribe, Mr, T. C. PlowKn
' , U sa 7 s ; “ p'e Gurans have frequently I lire, toned to transfer their
allegiiriee to lurkey, and, but for their disinclination to quit the sacred
vicinity , of Zai dah (the holy place of the Aliallahi sect), they would in
eir impatience of control, probably have emigrated ere this to Soleimanieh.
Ihey are a branch ot the Kalhor.'”
The Gukan Sultans.—A uthoritv • Mr ^ ^ inn t
Sultans.
• ••
ttt
Oolam Ali Khan ...
Shir Khan
Ali Beg
Kara]
Jen-shid (has also 1 company of Tufangehis)
Jahanbakhsh ...
Saffar Khan
Shukruilah
Families.
Sowars.
Kian. *
11«
400
30
20
• ••
cOO
25
15
11 •
2,i CO
150
3
2< 0
30
15
• • •
500
30
20
t
400
30
25
• it
20O
30
1
• ••
250
20
15
* A plan or galieh of sheep comprises sheep.
sIffar"K-'l,^ a s b n khS n S “i lta ! 1 i S USUall y kno " rn as So,irab Sll 'tan.
his brotr Mabmood Kht. ,03t ^ COnSdCU ° e ° f his tribe a “ d wl11 P^ably he replaced b;
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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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