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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎191v] (387/504)

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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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S A DOO L—Bala- Dai*!) and.
A village of Bala-Darband district. Malyat Krs. 129-693 dinars cash
and Kh. 3-28-0 grain.
SAF1R-KHANI—Binavar.
A village of the Binavar district.
AHAMEBDIN—Kangavar.
A village of the Kangavar district.
8 AHANLEH—Kuliai.
A village of the Kuliai district^ belonging to Hajji Sheffi and Haider
Ali Khan. See Kuliai.
SAHNA—Sahna.
Long. 47° 83'24 // E. Elevation 1,559*40 metres.
The chief place of the Sahna district. It is a small but flourishing town
87 miles east of Kermanshah on the road from Kermanshah to Hamadan,
between Bisutun ami Kangavar. It is situated at the foot of a range of
precipitous rooky hills, where are some ancient caves. The caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
built by the Hajji of Nirwan is fast going to ruins. When Taylor and
Ferrier visited bahna it was a flourishing place of 500 houses. Rozario
after toe great famine, found only 100 families remaining. In Sahna are
to be found a few Atishbeghi Seyyeds of the Aliullahi sect. The town,
which is surrounded by gardens, is said to contain at the present moment
200 houses.
A brawling torrent having its rise in a gorge about 1 farsakh above the
town runs through the gardens.
Grain and opium are the chief products.
The revenue of Salma was given me as Ts. 1,700 cash and Khaiwars
1,000 gram.
Opium is cultivated round the village of Sahna and the crop is estimat
ed at about 100 to 150 maunds of opium.
Cotton has been grown again since^ the last two years and fetches 6
krans per mann. It is sold to Kurdistan and Kermanshah merchants.
Poles from the extensive gardens of Sahna ara sold in Kermanshah
and used as rafters.
The principal fruits produced are : grapes, quince, plums (alucheh) and
(gaujeh), cherries (alubalu), apricots (zardalu) and garden crops.
Nobody apart from the tenants of the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and coffee-house is
allowed to sell provisions to pilgrims. The coffee-house alone is let at
Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 1,100 per annum. One can easily imagine the profit derived
from this district by the people who hold it in Tuyool.
Wine and arak are manufactured in the village, and a few gilims and
rough carpets are woven by the women.
There are in the gorge behind the town two rock tombs, access to one of
which can only be had by means of ropes. There are neither sculptures
nor inscriptions. The Persians call the place the tomb of Kai-Kouss.
SAHNA—
Bulux or District of Sahna—
This district can be divided into two distinct parte!

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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)
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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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