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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [125v] (255/504)
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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160
li . „ n f nT .; um is cleared and ploughed
The land intend^ for the c ultivatio ^ t P month of Mizan (September
n autumn, and the seed is thickly sown
£3 to October 24). ^ go0n a ^ er fields have been
The young plants show f^gTeason, during the months of Hamal
watered ; and after the end of the col is manured. The plante
in d Saur (March M to May U), ^ ^ oE j (M ay 22 to
are thinned out and at tlie l anc ing of the poppy heads
June 22), when the seed ve»»
begm ' nr seven-hladed knife, and the following
The lancing is done with a thre ^ ^ ^ wound; is scr aped oil with a
morning the juice which has ooz d t the j ant bping allowed a
,r««; e-w »* iui “ ^
“win *»a »«», pwe„
I “ ““ ed tb “ th " d “ “ e
Xy l fi?whS‘”to»gi. iZ, sho»«» ol »« the opium may be
10 The opium i. gathered in copper vessels, usually cooking nlens.le.
Thirty maund. of r.w opium fetoh t,on. 183 to 300 t.nr.ns, 6 to 10
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
per maund.
The necessary tads f»
•‘ ,1 101 ™' ^ ,n “ na
of opium produced.
The white variety of the poppy is the one that is grown Seed is
obtained from the previous crop, and the ground is allowed no re .
Severe cold may damage or destroy the crop. The usual yield of 1,000
kards of land is 30 maunds, but the amount produced may reach 60
maunds.
Eaw opium is either brought to Kermanshab and sold to the export
merchants, or sold on the spot to peddlers (“ jambaz ), who dispose of it m
town.
The export merchant, having bought very often maund by maimd a
sufficient quantity of opium, stores it in large copper pans, in which tUe
^inm is beaten up till it is of the necessary consistency, and prepares the
for export.
opium
j ror expon.
or export the opium has to be prepared and packed in chest s. One
t contains 140 leaves or cakes (“ clumch ”) of 100 miscals eac .
chest contains consequently about 22 maunds Tabnzi of prepared
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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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- ‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:249v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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