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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [98v] (201/504)
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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106
“The small tribe of Persian Jaffs is under Fatta Beg. In winter
they inhabit Jigeran, and in summer they camp between Mahidasht and
Rowansar. Being on the Kermanshah-Kurdistan frontier, they claim the
protection sometimes of the Governor of Kermanshab, and sometimes
that of Kurdistan ; but, obey none of them. They profit by the rivalry,
existing between these Governors, to continue a life of robbery and
depredation. The neighbouring tribes, however, specially those on the
Kurdistan side, are getting tired of their excess; and render their existence
more and more precarious. The Jaffis are Sunnis and fanatical. Fatta Beg
has 130 horsemen always ready to march. These Jaffs are on bad terms
with the Turkish [Cesari, 1^04.)
They are very courageous ; and this is what Mr. C. B. Rosenplaenter
of the D'Arcy Concession wrote, from Camp Chia Surkh, in March
1904:—
c< Fatta Beg of Kurdistan has jnst given Ihe Quran Sultans a fearful
licking. He had only 50 sowars, mostly of his own family, with him.
He attacked the Guran Sultans, Jemshid Sultan, Javan Beg Sultan,
Hajoi Murad, Saffar Khan Sultan and Kader Aga and Said Ali Beg Sultan
(Persian Jaff) ; all told about 300 sowars and 400 piadehs with rifies, and
scattered them all over the country. Jemshid Sultan lost his two Mauser
carbines, tbe brother of Javan Beg Sultan was wounded, Said Ali Beg
the same. Ten Gurans were killed outright, and no end of rifles and am
munition captured, as tbe piadebs threw away their guns. Some 50 black
tents were burnt, and a great number of sheep, cattle and donkeys were
driven away. Fatta Beg was reported slightly wounded.”
JAFF-I-KADER-MURID-WAISSI—Gurans.
A small Jaff tribe under tbe Gurans.
This tribe and the tribe of the Jaff-i-Taishi, who have settled in the
plain of Sarkalleh, north of Zohab, are Jaffs who have separated from the
great Jaff tribe of Soleimaneih. Mabmood
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, chief of the great tribe,
has lately made great efforts to induce the Jaffs, who have joined the
Gurans, to return to his rule ; and has threatened them with severe reprisals
should they refuse.
The Jaffs of Palan furnish 1 company to the Guran regiment.
JAFF-I-TAISHI—Gurans.
A small Jaff tribe under the Gurans. See Jaff-i-Kader-Murid-Waissi.
JAFFARABAD—
A village 1 mile to north of the road between K angavar and Assadabad,
at a point about 7 miles from the former, en route between Kermanshah
and Hamadan. (Taylor.)
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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)
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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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