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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [217r] (438/504)
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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343
Most of the Zengeneli country is milkyat, Kenduleh is Khalesseh or
Crown property. The Zengenehs are said to be able to turn out 200 sowars
or horsemen.
Regarding the Zengeneh of Kermanshah, Mr. T. C. Plowden says
About 300 families of this tribe occupy portions of the great Mahidasht
plain; other families are settled at Talandasht, and at Harasam, some
25 miles to the west of Kermanshah town. Some 200 families are settl
ed in the plains at the foot of the Parrao hills to the north of Kermanshah,
and another small detachment at Chehr to the east of Kermanshah,
towards Hersin. There are 2 ,COO families in all. The present (1880)
head of the Zengeneh tribe is Mohamed Reza Khan, Zahir-ul-Mulk,
whose grandfather, Mustafa Kuli Khan was once Governor or Kerman*
shah. Zahir-ul-Mulk appears to be a stupid, good natured man, and he
is said to be liked by his people, over whom he exercises a mild rule.
As Sartip of the Zengeneh and Nanekali tribes, he maintains for service
of the State one regiment of infantry and 150 cavalry, I saw the in
fantry under canvas outside the walls of Kermanshah. They had just
been mobilised, and were under orders for the frontier. The men were
miserably dressed, and could not for a moment compare with the Turkish
Infantry at Baghdad. They were armed with German muskets. The Zen
geneh country is milkyat; it yields nothing to the State, for the land revenue
from it is absorbed in paying the expenses of the foot and horse levies
under Zahir-ul-Mulk’s command.”
Not only does the Zengeneh country yield nothing to the State, for the
land revenue from it is absorbed in paying the expenses of the military
contingents supplied, but Zahir-ul* Mulk draws annually on the Kermanshah
Government to balance his accounts. The Zengenehs are Shiahs,
The cavalry under Zahir-ul-Mulk is formed as follows -
Nanekali ... ... 50 horsemen.
Ahmadavand Behtui ... 100 „
The real tribe of Zengenehs only consists of a very limited number of
families and is divided in Zengenehs who inhabited the plain of Mahidasht
a few farsakhs to the east of the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of Mahidasht, and of
Namiavands who inhabit the villages of Namiavand about 4 or 5 farsakhs
to the west of the said
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
The rest of the tribe is composed of small tribes and of villages who
through having to supply contingents to the Zengeneh regiment have in
some sort of way got attached to the tribe.
The Zengeneh tribe to the east of the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of Mahidasht is
divided into
Taifeh Chururishi—
Nujubi.
Kutkavandi.
Gezafi.
Karavanei.
Sarpuzeli.
Gavmiziji.
Kbalilani.
Mussanaiinji.
Gandabei.
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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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