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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [232r] (468/504)
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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867
NOTES ON THE VILLAGES IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY
OF THE
CARAVANSERAI
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
OF MAHIDASHT.
Mirza of Customs^ Mahidasht.
Beginning from the Final Kosh pass.
Below the pass there is a village called Tueh-Latif, belonging to Ao*a
Abul Gassem, Reis ul Ulemah. Cultivation : daimi and abi. This village
has a spring at the foot of the mountain. The water of this spring is used
for garden crops, such as cucumbers, melons, watermelons and onions. The
inhabitants number 20 families, and have no industry unless it be transport
ing stones to town. There is no Katkhoda in this village, but a ceitain
hermatullab has the title of Risb-Seftd. From this village to the foot
of the pass the distance is one ma dan. At the spring there is a coffee
house kn >wn as Kaffeh Khaneh Einalkosh, belonging to the proprietor of
the village and let to Golam Kermanshahi.
The following villages are situated between the pass and the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of Mahidasht. The villages round the caravanseiai will be mentioned
further on.
On the way from the Einalkosh pass to Domb-i-Zeng<dian one comes
across two coffee-houses. The middle one belongs to the village of Derekeh,
known as Derekeh Holarn Ali. This property belongs to Aga Nasrullah,
servant of Aga Mohammed Saleh Mujtehed, and numbers about fifteen
families The village is off the road on the right, at the foot of the
mountain where there is a spring. The villagers only look after their
fields. Cultivation: daimi. The tenant of the coffee-Ruise is a certain
Beghi. From this coffee house to Domb-i-Zengelian the distance is one
maidan. The other coffee-house belongs to Seyyed Gassem Naghib and is
let to a man named Dervish. There is no water and water has to be got
from Kumisheh. This man Dervish sank a well about 40 zars de^p hut
found no water. He reached the rock and had to abandon his idea. The
well was filled up. Past this coffee-house the road branches off in two
directions. The road to the right leads to Jamashuran; that on the left to
Kumisheh Seyyed Gassem Naghib
Jamashuran is situated in the centre of the plain of Mahidasht, at about
3 far^akh distance from Doml -i-Zengelian. From here to Robat-Mabi-
dasht; the distance is | a farsakh.
Jamashuran is composed of three villages, the middle one belongs to Reis-
i-Daftar, and the two other ones to Aga Abul Gassem Reis-ul-Ulema. The
village of Reis-i-Daft ir numbers 50 houses. Its Katkhoda is Satut Beg.
The villages of Reis-ul Ulama number 70 families. Their Katkhoda is
Moll a Gassem. The village has no water of its own. Cultivation : daimi.
The villagers make jajurs, gilims and khourdjins.
The village of Seyyed Gassem to which there is a direct road from
Domh-i-Zengelian is known as Kumisheh-Seyyed-Gassem-Naghib and is
distant | a farsakh from Domb-i-Zengelian. The village is situated at
the foot of the mountain, has a spring, gardens, pl mtations of willows and a
mill. When there is plenty of water at the spring, it forms a stream
which reaches the Merek. Inhabitants, 40 families. Knmisheh belongs to
Seyyed Gassem, Seyyed Mirza and Seyyed Bahrain who are relations and
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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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