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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [154r] (312/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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JAH—JAH
JAHANGTRAH—Lat. Long. Elev.
A district of LuristSn, situated on the coast. Its seaport is Mughu.
The villages of this district are Yaish (?), Kenan (?), Terakema (?),
and Bastak. The people are wealthy and do not pay Government
anything beyond the usual revenue, They have about 2,000 match-
lockmen. {Felly.)
JAHLIUM—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Marvdasht plain in Fars. Rice is obtainable here.
{Mac Grey or.)
JAHRIN—Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place on the road between Hamadan and Sultaniah, one
march from the latter. {Morier.)
JAHRGM—Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in Ears, 63 miles south-west of Darab, and 90 miles south
east of Shiraz. It consists of a walled fort of great length and
in good condition, situated near rocky mountains, which lie on the
south-east of it, and extend in a direction east and west. The town
is said to contain within and without the walls 3,000 families. The
walls are of recent construction and are about 3 miles in circumfer
ence, but there are more houses outside than inside them. Many of
the habitations possess turreted towers as places of defence. The land
around Jahrum is principally irrigated with water drawn from wells
(by bullocks), with which the plain is everywhere dotted. The
scarcity of running water is extreme. This is the principal mart foi
tobacco, which is brought here from all the surrounding districts and
disposed of to traders, who distribute it over the country far and
near. These traders are numerous, and many established here are
wealthy; they usually transact their business in their private houses
without resorting to the caravansarais, of which there are six in the
place. The 'following is a rough estimate of the produce of tobacco
in some of the neighbouring districts :—
Mans of Galbasi = 720 miskals.
Mds.
•
Prices.
Lar ...
(?)
Kiran
1-1-10 per man.
Togum and Bidshahr.
50,000
1”
1-0-0 for Togum,
1-10-0 for Bidshahr.
Ala Mardaskt .
65,000
»
1-0-0 per man.
Kir and Kazin .
25,000
99
0-0-10 „
Ghaladar and Assia .
50,000
99
1-0-0
Lazher, Mekan, Afzar, and
Kowreh . .
50,000
99
0-1-10 „
Jahrum ....
30,000
99
1-1-5 „
The other articles of native produce which enter into the trade of
the place are dates and rice of Kir and Kazin. The former are worth
at Jahrum 9-14 for 25 mans; the rice, of which there may be
150,000 mans, sells at 1 for 2 mans. ’ .
Some 30,000 to 40,000 tumans worth of English cotton imported
from Tihran are disposed of annually at Jahrum. There are thirty
dealers in these goods here; groceries, spices, and cotton manutactures
285
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
- Arrangement
The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; 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 volume has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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- ‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:340v, back-i
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