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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [149v] (303/504)
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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The imports from the United Kingdom supply Kurdistan, ITamadatl,
Sulfanabadj Khoremabad and all the district included in these limits,
ivlanch ester prints, via Kermanshab, are also sent to Isfahan and Teheran,
and so is tea, but it is difficult to get at accurate figures of this inland
trade.
Sugar from Marseilles cannot stand the cost of transport from Kerman-
sbab to Hamadan to compete with Kussian sugar in the Hamadan market,
but it goes to Sultanabad.
The Austrian goods are chie^y for local use.
Raw hides from Bagdad are tanned in Hamadan and sold in Persia.
Lamb-skins from Bagdad are dressed in Hamadan and then go to
Russia vid Resht or Tabriz.
Dates from Kermanshah (mostly from Mandali) spread over the whole
of the north of Persia up to Isfahan.
It will be seen from the tables attached that British trade is represented
In the imports by a total of £684,522, Indian trade by £46,013, and French
trade by £679,571.
The export vid Kermanshah amounted for the year to 9,867,477 brans
(£182,731), of which about £120,000 goes to the
xpor s. United Kingdom and India, and £38,575 to France.
The principal items are opium, 133,308^ lbs., costing 3,511,687 krans
(£65,031) ; gums, 2,121,948 krans (£39,295); wool, 265,170 krans (£4,910),
which go to the United Kingdom as well as part of the total amount of
816,822 krans (£15,682) for carpets, the balance of this last item going
to America. Part of these carpets come from Sultanabad, having been
manufactured under the supervision of the Persian Carpet Manufacturing
Company, Limited, whilst the rest are old carpets or carpets from Sarukh.
Many of the carpets seat to Bagdad come also from Luristan, Malayer,
end their oufc’ying districts. The ordinary carpets find a ready sale in
Egypt, Syria, Bagdad and Bombay.
France receives silk products to the extent of 2,081,854 krans (£38,553).
Some other items of export are dried fruits for the Bagdad market,
giving a total of 248,238 krans (£4,597), and goat-skins, dressed or raw,
321,271 krans (£6,005).
The dried fruits uome from Hamadan, Malayer and Irak, but no great
care is taken in the jiaeking.
Native cotton and woollen goods snob as kalamkars, abbas, &c., Yezd
silk, Kashan silk, are also exported to Bagdad for sale there.
A considerable amount of aniline dyes, the use of which was fast ruining
Aniline dyes. t ^ le car P e ^ trade, was till quite lately imported from
Bagdad, but the Customs authorities here have taken
such severe steps that the smuggling of these dyes has proved a very costly
business to the people, chiefly Persian Jews, given to this trade.
It is evident that if the Bagdad railway be constructed, and if it be
extended to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, it will do much to increase the importance
of the Kermanshah route and of the town as a port of entry for Persia.
When it is considered that from Busreh to Bagdad by the Shat el Arab
and the Tigris the distance is 510 miles, whilst as the crow flies 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.
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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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