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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [576v] (1157/1278)
The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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570
KHtt—KHt
commodious than that which is in use in other parts of Persia or in Arabia.
In the latter country, more frequent changes of residence render one of a
higher and smaller construction necessary;
The principal towns of Khuzistan are Shushtar, Dizful, Ram Hormuz,
Fallahieh.
The communications of Khuzistan to the foot of the mountains are
extremely open and easy, by means of the numerous rivers which intersect
it, especially the Karun. The Ka’b country is difficult by reason of its
flooded state in winter and the almost total absence of water in summer.
From Shushtar there is a route to Isfahan and Shiraz by Behbehan, and to
Baghdad through the country of the Bani Lam Arabs. From Dizful there
are routes to Khurramqbad and Burujird, and thence to Kirmanshah and
Hamadan.
Khuzistan is under the administration of the Governor of ’Arabistan
who is usually a member of the Royal family. The holder of the office
in 1879 was Prince Hamza Mirza, better known by his title of Hashmat-
ud-Dauleh. His nominal residence is Khurramabad in Luristan. The
collection of revenue is the only function of Government which the Prince
Governor performs all other matters being left to the discretion of chiefs
or Governors of the six districts into which Khuzistan is divided. The
revenue is of two kinds : — divan, which goes to Tehran and pishkdsh^ which
the
Prince Governor
A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925).
takes for himself.
The six districts, their present chiefs, estimated population, and the
revenue of both kinds which they paid in 1879 is as follows :—
District.
Present chiefs or
governors.
Estimated
population.
Revenue.
Tumdns.
Tumdns.'
MuhammaAb .
Haji Jabir Khan,
Nasrat-ul-Mulk.
45,000
( Divari
\ Pishkash
23.000
10.000
1 33,000
Fallahieh .
Vacant , ,
30,000
f Divan
i Pishkash
16,000
6,000
j 22,000
Ramis
Shaikh Jabarah
7,000
( Divan
Pishkash
| 9,000
Shushtar .
Mirza ’Abdul Wahhab
Khan.
22,000
C Divan
( Pishkash
18,000
4,000
j 22,000
Dizful, with
Kathir Arabs.
Hidaiatullah Khan
30,000
( Divan
\ Pishkash
24,000
6,000
j 30,000
Hawizeh (q. v.) .
Mulla Matlab
33,000
C Divan
l Pishkash
140000
7,000
| 21,000
167,000
Tumdns
137,000
The Arabs of Khuzistan are exceptionally intelligent, probably from
intercourse with the subtle Persians. They have adopted many Persian
customs, and greatly esteem Persian women as wives. There is however
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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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 637; 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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