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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [131r] (266/504)
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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itnluJc of Vastam.—k. small district to the north o£ Ker mans hah, extend
ing from Kaubendeh Saleh to Hajjiabai, and from the Karasu to Kinisht
^and the Parau Mountains.
Tiiis district is practically entirely the property of Hajji Abdur Rahim,
Vekil-ed-Dovvleb.
Pairavanrh* —The Pairavands are divided into four branches : Dalujeh
with 6 katkhorlas, Z >yar with ’2 katkbodas. Kolkol with 4 katkhodas and
Ruliai with 2 katkbodas. They number 400 bouses. They have no fixed
Oaimsirs, some of them go to Pusht-i-Kuh, others tc the Sinjabi district.
Of these 400 families about 70 or h0,and even more, do not go to Keshlaks.
The others are settled in Kinisht and the surrounding villages. The
leilaksof the Pairavands are in the Kuh-i-Parrao.
The villages of Kaiakuin, Zalouab, Saraleh, Khalek and Kinisht are
principally inhabited by the Paiwands.
BuluJc of Mian Derbend. —This district extends from the district of
Kermanshah to the province of Kurdistan, and to the districts of Kuiia
and Pusht Derhend.
The Governor is Mohamed Khan Ahmadavand, Path ul Mamalek.
The inhabitants are mostlv Ahmadavand Behtui.
The Mahal Zir Derband, which forms part of this buluk, is a plain,
watered by the Ab-i-Razawar; and contains some 23 or 30 hamlets, averag
ing from 10 to 30 bouses apiece, one of which is Kakiistan, a halting
phice on the road to Senneh (Senenduj), some 16 miles irom Kermanshah.
The district of Mian Dei bend is also called Bilavar.
Buluk of Pusht-Derbend, also called Bala-Derbend, to the north of
Kermanshah.
Governor, NesruTah Khan of Diskeran.
The population is eoinposed of Kuliais, Ahmadavand Behtuis and
other Kurds.
' The Ahmadavand Behtuis, or more correctly Ahmadavand and Ahmal-
avand Behtui, aie branches of the great Hamavand (Hamad in Jaid being
the equivalent for Ahmad) tribe who inhabit Turkish territory ; a*.d are
said to have, some 30 years ago, pillaged the frontier and even besieged
Mend all.
The Ahmadavand Behtui number about 400 houses, under the authority
of Zahir ul Mulk Zengeneh. The chief of the tribe is Mohamed Khan,
Path nl Mamalek. They furnish 100 horsemen to the Government. In
summer they reside some 5 faxsakhs from town in hamlets, where they
till their fields, and in winter they go to their Keshlaks near Kasr Shirin.
The Ahmadavand Behtui are Shiahs.
Buluk of Dinavar, —Governor, Khodadad Khan.
A district containing some 50 hamlets. It is formed by a large plain,
on the road from Kermanshah to Tabriz ; and' is entered by the Tang-i%
Millehmass and ends at the Tang-i-Dinavar.
Most of the hamlets belong to Azam ed Dowleh, a few to Mansoor es
Saltaneh.
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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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