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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [87r] (178/504)
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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RESIDENCES OF THE GURA.N SULTANS.—Authority : Mr. E.
Kitabji Khan o£ the D^rcy Oil Concession at Kasr-i-Shinn. 21st June
1904.
GOLAM ALI KHAN.—Summer and winter Gahwareh.
SHIR KHAN.—Summer: Hafteheshmeh and Bina in the Dalahu
mountains.
Winter : Chahar Kola, near Sar-i-pol-i-Zohab.
ALI BEG.— Summer : Palan, in the Dalahu mountains. Winter :
Chegasurkh near Kuiretu.
FA RAJ.—Summer, KaUeh Kazi. Winter: Chahar Kola near Sar-i-poL
JEMSHID KHAN.—Summer r Gizel,between Kuretu and Banlavanaa.
Winter: Kalleh Zanjir.
JAHANBAKHSH.—Summer : Takht-Gah, near Mahidasht. Winter:
Pet- Bur.
SAFFAR KHAN.—Summer : Chega Chubi. Winter Banzamin.
SHUKRULLAH.—Summer: Bibiyan. Winter: Baniavanan.
“The Guran tribe is the most numerous of the province. They are all
nomads with the except ion of the inhabitants of Gahwareh. The Gurars,
whose territory extends from Biwanij to Ab-i-Sirvan, can raise 3,000 horsemen,
but the weak character of their chief has greatly diminished the influence of
this tribe at the frontier Mansur-ul-Mulk has tred to make up for this
by family connections with Daoud Khan,
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of the Kalhors, his son-
in-law.
The plain of Zohab belongs to the Gurans as summer pasture land.
The town of Zohab, formerly a great centre of cultivation, was able to
raise 200 horsemen. It now can only boast of ruins and of a population
of 50 families. The husbandmen, being villagers of the Shah, are under the
authority of the Governor of Sar*i-pol-i-Zohab. Up till last year, the
Government of Sar-i-pol was entrusted to the Chief of the Gurans, with
fatal results to the district. It is natural that the Chief of the tribe should
endeavour to increase the number of his sub jeets, by enticing husbandmen
to adopt the nomadic life. The nomads themselves, being only responsible
to their chn-f, oppress and rob the villagers ; and, when migrating from one
place to another, allow their cattle to ruin the crops/'' (Cesari, 1904.)
Je mshid Sultan, of the Gurans, died in June 1904 from cholera. By the
death of Jemshid Sultan and of Khan Khanan, the policy of the Guran
tribe is completely upset. Jemshid Sultan and Khan Khanan intended
declaring themselves independent of Mansur-ul-Mulk, the hereditary chief.
Khan Khanan, had he been promised help from the Kermanshah Gov
ernment, would readily have turned his father, Mansur-ul-Mulk, out of the
Guran country, whilst Jemshid Sultan by his extraordinary “physique/'
his intelligence and good manners, is said to have commanded respect from
all who approached him.
GURBAGESTAN SUFLA.—Duru-Faraman.
A village of the Duru-Faraman district. Malyat Kh, 8-50-0 grain.
GURGAI.—Kalhors.
A sub-division of the Khamman branch of Kalhors They number 200
families and are sedentary. Their chief is Mahmoud Khan.
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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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