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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [127v] (259/504)
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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“ Sakkis ”
** Sakkis ’*
mastic).
(gum mag tic) is obtained from the forests of Huleilan Pnsbt-i-
(g Um Kuh. It is divided into three qualities, known by them
and Persians as
Price per Maund
Tabrizi.
White gum •••
Yellow |,
Plack i»
Krans.
5
4
3
Sakkis gum, unsorted, fetched during the year from 4 to 5i krans per
maund. All the Sakkis gum is exported to Russia. The trade is very
considerable, but it is impossible to obtain accurate information here. The
figures for gums, in the Tabriz and Resht Custom-house returns for exports,
probably represent the yearly output of Sakkis gum of Luristan, Kurdistan
and Soleimanieh.
Kermanshali also produces a peculiar kind of Gez (manna), called Gez
Alati. of inferior quality.
Gez Alafi. ' ^
The Gez-i-guti found here is all from Isfahan. A few boxes of
Gezengebin are prepared here.
Gez Alafi costs about 3^ krans per mann, and is used for medicinal pur
poses. The Kurds are very foud of the stuff.
Other local products are ghi or clarified butter, cotton in small quantity,
packing bags, black hair tents * wooden combs and clay chaplets, which
are greatly appreciated by the Persians.
Felts “ namdas ” are prepared here, and there are also many Giveh
makers.
Although the carpet industry is nearly extinct, it may be worth while
quoting what has been said of it by previous travel-
Carpets. i ers ^ an d making some remarks as to the present state
of that industry.
“The carpets of Kermanshah are a manufacture which adds much to the
wealth of the province; none can be more rich, soft and beautiful, the
colours more brilliant; but these are not their only merits, for they are cheap
and very durable. These carpets are made in the villages and in the tents
of the nomad tribes, generally by women and children. Here there is no
complicated machinery, four stakes fixed in the ground, which serve to
twist the woollen thread, form the simple mechanism employed in weaving
these beautiful carpets.
* ( Kermanshah was celebrated for the richness and beauty of its carpets,
but scarcely one is now obtainable. Industry, indeed, is at present unknown
on the spot, where thousands of busy fingers were daily occupied in weaving
• “ The tents, which are the sole habitation of the nomad tribes, are made of black goats*
hair blankets stretched upon poles, and are often very considerable structures, divided by reed
partitions into several compartments, used as the diwan khaneh or reception chamber, the
men’s and the women’s quarters, the kitchen, the stables, and the cowshed.”— (Curzon.)
A tent, which was lately presented to the Governor, measured about 60 feet in length, 30 feet
in width, and was 20 feet high.
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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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