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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [132r] (268/686)
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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The tribes cultivating the Crown lands about Khuramabad, Saimar-
rah, Jaidar, Alishtar, Kuh-daslit^ Tlrhan, Kir-ab are taxed in both
money and kind.
There are also indirect means of raising revenue by systems of fees
and fines for robberies, murders, and such like offences.
The amount at which a Lur district is assessed being fixed, it is duly
distributed over the tribes and their subdivisions; in a general council,
and to the satisfaction of all, each subdivision determines the quota to
be paid by its lesser subdivisions, camps, and villages, and then the
Kat-khuda, Rlshsafld, or Tushmal of each collects from the different
families under his rule according to his knowledge of their individual
ability to contribute.
The mules bred by the Feilis are considered to be superior to all
Mules others in Persia; they can export 1,000 annually.
(Rawlinson.)
The price of a mule varies from 30 to 40 tumans (R120 to 160).
They also manufacture carpets, packing-bags, horse furniture, char-
Weaith Coa ^ ^ :C ■ , as w ith all Illyats, their chief wealth
lies in their flocks of sheep and herds of goats,
donkeys, horses, &c. Their country also produces cheese, butter, char
coal, cherry-sticks and otter skins.
Their horses are of a mixed breed. There are few or none of pure
Arab breed.
The objection raised against the Shustar-Khuramabad route is that
it passes through the district of Lur-i-Kuchak, and that the Lur
robbers would, as heretofore, plunder the caravans, destroy the cara-
vansarais and bridges built along it, and even the road itself.. The
manner in which robbery has been put down in the Kuhgehlu hills
shows how such can be put down.
The lawlessness that now reigns throughout Lur-i-Kuchak is due to
a succession of weak and rapacious governors. A just and firm
governor, aided by a small body of troops to enforce his authority,
would, within a few months, pacify the district. As a means to this
end, the construction of the road and caravansarais, and the safe-con
duct of caravans along it, are required. As the road is now quite
passable, the first desiderata are—the construction of caravansarais,
storing them with provisions, guarding them, and the stationing a
sufficient number of troops in each to ensure the safe-conduct of a
caravan from one sarai to the other. From Khuramabad to the Bala-
Rud is 147 miles, or seven stages. Consequently seven caravansarais
will have to be constructed and guarded.
Stationing in each 100 infantry and 10 cavalrymen to guard the
caravansarais and to furnish guards for the road, and keeping in hand
a mobile force of 100 infantry and 100 cavalry to move on any
required point, within a few months, it may be confidently assumed that
this small force of 800 infantry and 170 cavalry will have completely
pacified the small district, and the scandal of a people in the very
centre of Persia refusing to acknowledge the authority of the Shah
will be done away with.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- ‘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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