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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎139v] (283/504)

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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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dependent upon Bagdad, until about 60 years ago, when Mu bammed Alt
r Mirza, Prince of Kerman^bab, annexed it to the crown of Persia. By the
treaty concluded between Persia and the Porte in 1823, it was stipulated
that the district^, acquired by either party during the war, should be respec
tively surrendered and that the ancient frontier line should be restored,
which had been established in the time of the Safavi monarchs. According
•to a subsequent treaty, Zohab ought certain'y to have been given up to the
Turkish authorities, but Persia had neither the wdl to render this act of
justice, nor hud the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Bagdad the power to enforce it ; and Zohab,
although still claimed by the i oite, has thus remained to the present day
in possession of the Government of Kermanshah.
“ Zohab, having been acquired in war, is Khalesseh, or crown land ; it
has been usually farmed by the Government of Kermanshah at an annual
rent ... to the Chief of the Guran tribe, whose hardy Ilayats inhabit
the adjoining mountains. . . .-The amount of the revenue must depend,
in a great measure, upon the value of rice and corn, its staple articles of
produce ; but in years of {denty, when the prije of these commod ties is at
the lowest possible rate, a considerable surplus will still remain in the hands
of the lessee. The revenue system of this district is simple, and more
favourable to the cultivators than in most parts of Persia. It is thought
derogatory to tlie chief to take any part of the cultivation int > his own
immediate hands. He distributes grain to his dependents, and at the
harvest receives as his share of the produce two-thirds of the rice and corn; in
consequence of the water consumed in its irrigation, which is the propertv
of the landlord or of Government, and is rarely to be obtained without
considerable expense and labour.
“ Tne rice grounds of Zobab are chiefly irrigated by an artificial canal
brought from the Holwan river, a distance of about 10 miles. The canal
is said to have been an ancient work, but was repaired and rendered avail
able for its presont purposes only loO years ago by the same Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who
subsequently built the town of Zohab.
" The revenue accruing to the chief averaged 10,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. .
o ‘ ^ aw * inson es ^bmated the produce of the district of
2,000 kharvars of rice and at 2,500 kharvars of wheat.
Zohab
at
Unaer the lumsh ru ] e Zohab yielded, with its dependents an
annual sura of oO,<h 0 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , but it then included several fertile and
. extensive districts, wh|ch are now detached from it, and there were also
above 2,000 raiyats resident upon the land ; whereas, at present tH. n 7
18 reduced to about 300 families, and the great proportion of f i u ber
i. % «. hand, of Goran Ilyats, who,
move up to their summer pastures among the mountains oh W 1 f ’
a few labourers in the plain to get in the°cro P s. The h of Z 11^"^
natura ly very rich, but owing to the little care bestowed on its cJT on*
a tenfold return is considered as o^orG Manrm 1Cb cu - i lvat!0n >
the lands. After the pr.-d, lonh a rt h p tlTroii mp]03 ;? d
fallow for several y«T ia or ler to reeov^if e allowed to 3ie
with a light grain. The interval between two riTcrcS\l’ S 8 ° W “
groun.l is never less than seven years, but even this is &7 0 A " tT
sml. M herever the extent of the lauds will admit If , ° ! xliausfc the
15 years is allowed. 0 an interval of

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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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