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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [150r] (304/504)
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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distance is only 800 miles, and that now it costs as much to send goods from
Busreh to Bagdad as to g^t them from London to Busreh, one will easily
imagine the enormous impetus which will be given to the Kermanshah trade
by the cheapening of the cost of transport, a natural result of the railway
to Khanekin and the Gulf.
In 1900 “ homeward freights to London varied from £1 5$. to £1 \Zs.
6i. per ton, these rates being from Busreh to London, including the tran
shipping charges at Busreh, but not the river freight from Bugded to Busreh,
which varies from 10$. Sd. to £1 19$. Id. per ton. Outward ocean
freights from London and Manchester to Bagdad were steadily maintained
at from £8 10$. to £4 per ton, including freight from Busreh to Bagdad/ 5
(Consular Report for 1900, No. 2707 Annual Series.)
The imports from Russia, rid Resht and Kazvin or Teheran, amount to
about 750,000 krans per annum. The principal
items are prints, cloth, velvet, naphtha, hardware, tea
and cigarettes.
Imports from Russia.
Turkey-red ground fancy prints with two, three and six colours in design,
quoted in Ilamadan at 14, 15 and 16 shahis per zar,
Prmfcs * are sold in Kermanshah at 15 shahis per zar, five months'
credit, the retail price is 17 shahis per zar.
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Value.
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
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Turkey-red ground, fancy prints ...
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6,000 to 7,000
White ground, soft prints are not much in demand
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1,001
Coloured ground, fancy prints, wholesale price 18 shahis per zar, four
months’ credit. Retail price 1 kran per zar.
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3,000
Indigo ground, Mexican prints ; and indigo ground and green er orange, soft
prints ha\e been superseded by Manchester goods of the same kind.
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Broadcloth, sold at 2*75 krans per zar ...
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10,0^0
Velvet and imitation velvet at 2 50 krans per zar ...
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10,0u0
Naphtha, 5/OD cases of about 5 poods each ... ...
25,000
Cigarettes and tea ... ••• •••
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3,000
Samovars, tea, glasses, trays and comtnon electro-plate, etc , glassware
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6,000
Total
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750,000
An agent of a Russian manufacturer offered Russian prints for sale in
Kerraanshah on tbe, following terms 10 per cent, discount on manu-
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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