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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [126r] (256/504)
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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161
To produce this amount, from 27 to 33 mauncls, according to quality, of
raw opium are required. The following table gives the yield of opium
from various places
Origin.
Quantity.
Cost of Raw Opium
per Maund.
Prepared
Opium.
From
To
From
To
Maunds.
Maunds.
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
Maunds.
Luristan
• ••
27
29
7*
11
22
Kerman shah
• ft «
ft eft
30
7i
12
22
Nehavend
ft •«
{ 32
33 \
6a
11
22
Burujird
ft #•
3
l
5*
9
22
The Luristan opium being daimi not watered) is said to be of better
quality than the opium cultivated in the usual way. It is sown by the
K aka van and other Lekk tribes, whose territory borders on that of
Kermanshah.
The Kermanshah opium is said to be very strong and is mostly used for
local consumption. Pure opium is called ie Shirreh/’ For local consump
tion opium is prepared in sticks, and is soil at about 17
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
per maund
Tabrizi. About 20 kharvars of opium (raw) is consumed locally by the
“ waffur” smokers. Of tbe Burujirid opium Mr. J. R. Preece says in his
report on the trade of the Isfahan district, 1894, No. 1376 Annual Series
u This opium is not used for direct exportation as it is not very good, being
deficient in morphia (on the average it containing only some 7 4 to 8 per
cent., whilst 10 to 11 ^ per cent, is the amount admissible for London).
It is used for internal consumption, and for adulterating such opium as
contains morphia above the required quantity.”
Good Persian opium contains 12 to 13 per cent, morphia (no such
opium passes through Baghdad), and in the London market the price
chiefly depends on the percentage of morphia. In Hong-Kong the per
centage of morphia is not a great factor in the opium market.
Kermanshah opium usually contains 8 | per cent, of morphia, and has
at the present time a very good name on the Hong-Kong market, the
adulteration which was practised some years ago having ceased.
The total amount exported via Baghdad during the year 1903-1904 was
20,422'40 batmans, the total amount for the previous year being 21,840
batmans.
At the beginning of the season prepared opium was offered at 2,600
krans per chest, but buyers held aloof. Prices rose gradually, and in
November reached 3,700 kraus per chest, at which rate small transactions
took place. The greater part of the prepared opium changed hands at 3,400
krans per chest.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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