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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [5v] (15/504)
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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every h&nilet lins n sep&r&te £md. distinct narne of its own. Tliis
has caused much confusion in mapping. An example of this is
found in Abbarik two villages seen on the road from Bisutun to
Sahna; the property of Abbarik, is composed of seven hamlets,
namely : Nejefabad and Hassanabad, Dowletabad, Reisavand,
Abbasabad, Sangchin, Milleh. Some maps give to the two above-
mentioned villages the name of Abbarik, others the names of
Nejefabad and Hassanabad, whilst others indicate four villages,
two of the name of Abbarik and the other two bearing the names
of Nejefabad and Hassanabad respectively.
In Kermansbah when one wants to distinguish, one speaks
of Nejefabad-i-Abbarik and Hassanabad-i-Abbarik.
It should also be noted that villages bear very often the name
of the Kathkodaor of the Chief. Thus Soleiman Aga, a village
on the Ab-i-Kurretu and marked on the Survey Department
Map, is now spoken of as Ali Aga, the name of the present chief.
In many maps camping grounds of the Iliyats are often
marked as villages. It is essential that winter and summer
camping-grounds be indicated in a special manner, such as by a
red or black triangle; for in the present state of many maps of
this district, it often happens that travellers, expecting to reach
a series of villages indicated on their maps, only find barren tracts
absolutely denuded of inhabitation and shelter.
For the tribes, although my lists were got up with great
care, I have given various other lists, which sometimes greatly
differ, but, wishing that a traveller, desirous of obtaining more
ample and correct information, should get in the present Gazetteer,
some points to help, I preferred laying before him all the material
in my possession.
An appendix will be found at the end of the volume,
explaining certain Persian words used, such as diam and adi; also
the Kurdish equivalent for some of the names.
In the revenue list, given under some of the Buluks,
villages belonging to two or three of the great landed proprietors
of Kermanshah, do not appear, as these persons have special
revenue lists for their villages.
Through want of time, it has been impossible to recopy the
Gazetteer in perfect alphabetical order. I have consequently
given an alphabetical index for use as reference.
Kebmanshah :
Dated the 24th June 1904<.
HYACINTH L, RABING.
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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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