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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎146r] (296/504)

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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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The telegraph office occupies one of the Khayyats or court-yards oF the
TeWranh office palace, opening on the artillery square. Kermanshah
is on the Teheran-Bagdad line. The stations are Tehe
ran, Khan a bad, Noberan, Zarreh, Hamadan, Assadabad, Kangavar,
Kermansbah, Kerind, Sar-i-pol-i-Zohab,, Kasrd-Shirin, Khanikin, Kizil
Robat, Shahreban and Bakuba (Yakubieh). The line consists of a single
wire.
Messages can be sent to Teheran, Khanekin and Bagdad in Latin
characters, but for other stations the language of the country has to be
used.
For the interior the charge is 2*75 krans per 10 words, for Bagdad 4 05
krans per word.
On delivery of a telegram the farrash of the telegraph office claims 10
shah is.
It is usually preferable to send telegrams for Europe to Teheran to be re-
tr; msmitted from there, as messages through the Turkish lines are so mutil
ated in transmission that they are usually incomprehensible when received.
The director of the telegraph office at Kermanshah is Prince Bashir-ed-
Dowleh.
The administration of the post office having been made over to the
Custom house and post custom-house officials, the post officers now in the
o sice. custom-house caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). on the outskirts or the town
to the north.
The mails leave for Hamadan and Teheran on Mondays and Thursdays,
and for Bagdad on Wednesdays. They are received from Teheran on
Saturdays and Wednesdays, and from Bagdad on Sundays. There is also a
mail to Hersin which leaves Kermanshah on Wednesday ; the mail from
Hersin is received on the Tuesday. The Teheran post takes seven days to
cov< r the distance from Teheran to Kfrmanshah, and the Bagdad post four
days from Bagdad to Kermanshah. The Teheran-Kermanshah post-houses
have six horses, the Kermanshah-Bagdad only two. r ihe mad to Hersin is
taken by a Kased or man on foot. In winter the mails from ieheian and
Bagdad are two days longer on the road.
The post office receives the following from Government
Quantity
Barley.
Straw.
*
Man ns.
Mauns.
Kerin an shah
• • t
7,-60
7,060
Kiii^ravar ...
• * •
• t»
726
726
Assadabad
t • •
t* •
726
726
The custom-house is now in the hands of the B ek, a cu
There is a custom-house at Kasr-i- Shinn, and guards on the road to prevent
charvadurs from evading the customs. There is also an oflice at Sennek
(Senendej), Kurdistan, and one at Bunnell. These three offices are under the
control of the Kermauskah ado inistratu n. 1 will give the results of the

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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.

Physical characteristics

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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