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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [90v] (185/504)
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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HARASAMI—
The inhabitants of Harasam, a small district which nominally forms part
of the Buluk of Eivan. They are descendants of settlers who migrated
here from Kermanshah. They number some 200 families.
HARIR—Kerind.
A village in the Kerind plain. It is surrounded by poplars and other
trees, under the hills about 1 mile oft, to the right of the road from Kerind
to Mian-Tak, about 12 miles from the former place.
Half the cultivation is daimi, the other hale abi.
HARIRI—Kerindis.
A branch of the Kerindis. They inhabit the village of Harir and the
surrounding villages. They are sedentary.
HARUNABAD—Kalhor.
Lat. 34° 6 36Elev. 4 ? S00'—De Morgan says 1>320 metres.
The chief place of the Kalhor distiict.
^ A village, 35 miles south-west of Karmanshah and 20 miles from
Kerind. it is situated nearly at the rise of one of the sources of the river
Kerkah ; its population inhabit it only in summer.
In winter they resort to the plain to escape the intense cold. About 60
houses and a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
constitute the village. The distiict occupied by
the Kalhor tribe extends as far north as this place. The town is said to
have been built by Harun al Rashid, but now there is only a village built
on its xmiis.—[Gazetteer.)
The Kalhors say this village was built by Haruni, the ancestor of
Mohammed Ali Khan, late
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of the Kalhors.
Harnnabad is at 6 farsakhs from Mahidasht and at 5 from Kerind on
the road between those two places, From Badreh to Harunabad the dis
tance is 3 tarsakh Harunabad numbers 70 bouses. Katkhoda : Aziz
Khan Kalantar. The village of Zengeneh is attached to this vilho-e The
inhabitants of Harnnabad are Kalhors. Cultivations : grain The yil'ae-e
is cut m two by the river Sarab-Barfabad, which rises at Sharafabad and
cS'rf the Kl«,r ”* “ bo “ t M0 t0 '““ •Hr.t “ «»
‘‘A dir ty» dilapidated, mud and stone hutted village. A large serii
and a good balakhana obtainable near the domed bazaar.”—'//. J, Sawyer)
HARUNABAD—Kalhor.
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Plain of H&runabad.
The plain of Harunabad is the Sardsir of the Kuchimi
Kalbors, and the residence of the Harunabadi Kalhors.
and Kolaju
The southern part of the plain of Harunabad is called Rawandasht or tl
pain of Rawan, and ts the summer quarters of most of the Kalliors T]
Mmehin and sahra nishms are all Kalhor. “-amors, u
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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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