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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎145v] (295/504)

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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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Water s apply.
required to afford a passage much needed at this Spot in Winter. \v hat
remains of the whole work gives one the impression of very good mason
ry and is undoubtedly Sassanian. If we admit that Aermanshab was for
merly quite near Ibk-i-Bo^an, this bridge was then on the road from the
town to Kasr-i-Shirim
There are many fine gradens to the south of the town near Sarah and a
few to the north, but at a certain distance. Ihere are
Gardens. p] en ty of fruit trees and poplars, but unfortunately such
a great quantity of wood is cut down every year that few trees are allowed
to grow to their full height.
Vekilieh is a villa on the Karasu at | farsakh from town. It belongs to
the Vekil-ed-Dowleh, who had the Jisr thrown over the
Vckilieh. riyer at t | i i s S pot. It is a favourite resort in spring for
the people of Kerroanshab.
There is an ample supply of water in Kermanshah,
but it is as a rule heavy and indigestible.
Drinking water is got from Sarab, a spring which waters the greater part
of the gardens to the south of the town, Chashmeh Ibrahim Zahir, Chash-
meh Sineh Guleh Zard.
Water for the tanks in the houses is got from Kanat Agaai, Ab Djaba
Khaneh, Ab Do evict Khaneh, Nahr Mehdi Khani.
Although the Karasu flows across the plain of Kerman shah, its water is
Karasu. no ^ use( ^ ^ or hrigafion. The levels are not very favour
able, and although irrigation works could easily be made,
water is so easily got from the mountains that nobody has yet been found
to attempt any irrigation works. A legend says that the river sank horror
stricken when Khosroe (some say Yezdijrd) threw the prophets letter into
its waters.
A small river named Ab-i-Ashuran formed by the various springs of
Sarab south of the town of Kerman shah flows through the town and joins
the Karasu near the village of Chega Gulan.
Its water is polluted the town sewers. During the summer its water
is turned off for cultivation.
The water-supply in Kermanshah is plentiful, but as the water runs from
Public health. one ^ 0l »se to that of the next, and as in
these tanks the cooking utensils and borne linen are
washed, the water generally used for diinking purposes is polluted and
contaminated. Ihe water of the Hammams or public baths is only changed
once or ttice a year.^ Notwithstanding this, and the total absence of
sev\ers, xeimanshah is, through the dryness of its climate, a healthy place.
e 1 ^ a mi 18 eav T an d indigestible, and diarrhoea and dvsentery are the
result. Ihe usual illnesses are fever, small-pox and diphtheria.
Kermanshah during the last century suffered many times and very
severely from cholera, plague and famine. In 1801 Sir J. Macdonald
nnejresima e le population at 60,000 souls, but the plague which
soulf ^ thG t0Wn m 1830 is Said t0 have reduced population to 12,000

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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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