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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎227r] (458/504)

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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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The length of the plain is about 3 farsakhs and its width in the centre |
farsakb. On the left at the foot of the mountain is a village called Shuan
numbering 40 houses ; proprietor, Vekil-ed-Dowleh, Cultivation : opium
and grain. The yearly output of opium is 30 batmans.
At 300 metres from the road and at the same distance from the moun
tain in the central part of the plain to the left of the road is the village of
Zebiri: 15 houses. Proprietor, Javan Mir Khan, son of Akbar Khan
Khamman. Cultivation : grain. Carpet-weaving. The cemetery is in the
centre of the village. The inhabitants are of the Gualandar Lekki divi
sion ol Kalbors.
Near this village is another village cf the name of Zeviri or Zebiri
belonging to Seifullah Khan, numbering about 20 house?. Katkhoda Said
Khan. Cultivation: grain. The inhabitants are of the Chulek division of
Kalhors.
At £ farsakh from the road at the foot of the mountain in front of Zebiri
is a third village of the name of Zebiri belonging to Mehra Ali Khan. The
inhabitants are of the Delu division of Kalhors. Cultivation: grain. Kat
khoda Asghar. 10 houses. The Delus are nomads and inhabit in winter
the plain of Gilan. (The three villages of Zebiri are now named Hassan-
abad.)
On the left of the road at £ farsakh from the Nal-sbekan mountain is the
village of Kerim Hasseleh, numbering 7 or 8 houses and belonging to the
chief of the Kalhors. Cultivation : grain.
The plain of Tejeris situated between the Nalshikan and Kemal-ed-din
mountains. The road crosses this plain in a S. W. W. direction forming an
angle of about 110° with the mountain.
The road then goes over a succession of small hills and is scarcely pas
sable for wheeled traffic. In front of the village are numerous cemeteries
of nomads. In the plain to the right of the road the Larini division of
Kalhors have their summer encampments.
The village of Larini is at 1? farsakhs from Harunabad and at 500
metres to the right of the road. This village is inhabited in winter by the
tribe of the same name. 50 houses.
Cultivation: grain. The inhabitants pass the summer months under
canvas.
The plain of Raven in which is Harnnabad is ended by a range of moun
tains which joins the Tang-i-Sandukeh range. This range extends for 1 i
farsakhs up to Tush-Khoshkehand is cut by the Manglareh pass which is
on the road from Harunabad to Gilan.
The mountain at the foot of which are the villages of Harunabad and Bad-
reh is named Guerreh-Abbas-Ali and extends from the Mahidasht-Harun-
abad road up to £ farsakh further on than Harunabad and runs parallel to
the Harunabad-Kerin road.
The plain of Raven is 3 farsakhs in length. Harunabad is at 6 good
farsakhs from Mahidasht and at 5 from Kerind. The distance from
Badreh to Harunabad is i farsakh.
Badreh, 40 houses. Cultivation: grain. Carpet-weaving. Proprietor:
Amir Arslan Khan Saram-i-Nizam. Katkhoda Assad. Inhabitants are of
the Badrei tribe who come from Baghdad.

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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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