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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [199r] (402/504)
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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307
SHAEAZULI.
A small tribe of 25 families under the Zengenehs.
Perhaps their original denomination was Shahr-i-Zuri.
SHAHRIK and YERMEZIAR—Kalhors.
A sub-division of the Kbamman branch of Kalhors. They number 660
nomad and sedentary families under Mahmood Kban Yavvar. Their Gar-
msirs are in the plain of Direh and their sardsirs at Kharmaberria.
Leleux says : “ 300 families under Mahmood Khan Yawar Kharhman.
Malyat Krs. 7,000 ”,
Plowden says : A clan of the Kalhor tribe consisting'of 350 families
and living in winter on the plains of Gilan, Maidan, Derreh Abbarik and
Ragbad (?) or Righid (?). In summer above Rawan and Chungur (?)
(Chingir probably)/'
SHEIKHAN—Kerind.
The principal village of the plain of Biwanij.
Elevation 1,618*20 metres. {Dr, O, Mann).
Governor Taber Khan, a rich landed proprietor to whom belongs all the
land between Rijab, Yaran and Zardeh.
SHEIKH AN—Zohab.
A village 20 miles north of Zobab inhabited by Sharafbainis. It is
composed of three or four hamlets, the most important one beimr situated
at the mouth of a mountain gorge. The others are higher up in the moun
tain. Its name is derived from tw r o Sunni saints whose tombs are here
(these surmounted with their white cupolas and embosomed in orchards
form a very picturesque object). Sheikh Khan numbers all told 100 houses.
Twenty minutes further up the gorge behind the village, in a hill called
Darband, is an elamitic panel representing a man with bow and arrow and
two supplicant figures at his feet. There is also a cuneiform inscription.
The translation of the inscription is given by R. P. V. Seheil as “ Tar
ni son of has erected this image. When he
restored it. W r hoever destroys the image, may his descendants and name
be annihilated by Samas and Ramman/'
This is supposed to be the most ancient inscription in the province of
Kermanshah.
The inscription and panel are in a narrow ravine towards the mountain, i.e,,
north-east, and are found with difficulty amongst the rocks. R. P. V.
Scheil believes the inscription to be contemporary with Sargon of Agada and
of Gudea, whilst the sculpture is believed to be cf a far remoter period—
probably the most ancient specimen of sculpture in Asia.
SHEIKH MUSTAFA—Sinjabi.
A village part of Binder.
SHEIKHNASSUR—
A village in the plain of Zohab. {De Morgan.)
Probably Khanashur or Sarnashur.
SHEIKH SHERIF oa DEH-KADEH SHEIKH SHERIF—Zohab.
Near Sar-i-pol-i-Zohab. 15 houses.
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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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