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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [155v] (315/504)
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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pushed on. After a stubborn resistance of two years the town had to
surrender on account of the ravages caused by famine.
Mirza Mohammed Taki and his nephew Mirza-ibn-Mohammed Amin
were taken prisoners, but escaped and retook possession of Kermanshah,
which they held in the name of Azad Khan Afghan who had inflated a
severe defeat on the armies of Kerim Khan. Shortly afterwards Mirza
Mohammed Taki was murdered by the Zends and Mirza ibn-Mohammed
Amin escaped to India where in the years 119o-U96 A. H. he wrote this
bistor}'.
“In the early part of the century, Fath AH Shah conferred the
Governorship of the province and city upon his eldest son Mohammed Ali
Mirza,, whose jealousy of Abbas Mirza, the heir-apparent, plays so large a
part in the history of the contemporary writers. —(Curzon.) Mohammed
Ali Mirza Dowlet Shah, was succeeded by his eldest son Mohammed
Hussein Mirza, Heshmet-ed-Dowleh, who was Governor for ten years. A
few years later Imam Guli Mirza Emad-ed-Dowleh, brother of Heshmet-
ed-Dowleh was appointed Governor, in which position he remained for 21
years When the Shah passed by here on his way to Kerbela in 1871, a
hu S e‘petition, complaining of the oppression of the Governor was presented
to His Imperial Majesty the Shah but was not answered. In l."85 this
province formed part of the immense Government ot Zil-es-Sultan,
Kermanshah was visited many times during the last century by Europeans,
and during the beginning of that century by many of His Majesty’s envoys
and officers.
Macdonald Kinneir speaks of Kermanshah as a flourishing town o£
about 12.000 houses, containing 14 hammams, or public baths, 4 mosques
and yielding a revenue of 15,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
It has suffered severely from plague, cholera and famine. The plague
which ravaged the town in 1830 is said to have decreased the population
to 12,000 souls.
i during the last century
Abbe Beauchamp
• • •
... 1790
Souls.
5,000 to 6,000
Olivier
• ••
... 1796
8,000
Rousseau
t • •
... 1807 16,000 to 18,000
Macdonald Kinne'r
#•#
... 1810
60,000
Ker Porter
• ••
... 1818
75,000
mmmrn
t ••
... 1820
35,000
—
... 1830
12,0C0
Thomson ...
t • •
... 1868
30,000
Nasr-ed’Din Shah
• •t
... 1870
70,000
Rozario
Mi
... 1872
25,000
Floyer
t • •
... 1876
40,000
T. C. Plowden ...
• M
... 1881
60,000
Curzon ...
M*
... 1892
40,000,Vol. I, page 558,
tt
•• f)
... 60,C00
Persia and the
Persians.
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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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