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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [208v] (421/686)
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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KHU—KHU
394
Near its summit is a copious stream. Round about its base are fine
gardens, well irrigated, and dwelling-houses, &c., enclosed by walls of
no strength, about 15 feet high.
It contains about 2,000 inhabitants, and is the residence of the
ruler of the Luristan district, extending southward across the Lur hills
to Dizful. The town is rapidly falling into ruins. Trade was most
inactive owing to the insecurity of the Dizful road (1884). There is
here a Persian post and telegraph office.
Its roads are narrow and difficult to traverse; its houses, said to
number 1,000, are chiefly of mud; roofs flat; bazar of insignificant size.
The camping-ground, suited for one brigade, lies to the west of the
town. The river here breaks through a range of rocky hills stretch
ing across the plain in the usual north-west direction, leaving standing
the solitary rock, nearly 1,000 yards in circumference, upon which the
fort is built. There are two roads from Khuramabad to Burujird.
The route taken by DeBode is the most direct, but tents are met with
along it only during the summer months. Caravans, &c., prefer that
taken and now described.
N.B.— With reference to the practicability of constructing a cart-road
from Mtihammarah to Khuramdbad, it may be here convenient to note
that from Muhammarah to Dizful, 173 miles, the country is practically
a level alluvial fat, to construct a road across ivhich raising and ditching
only is required ; road metal can be obtained from the hills about Ahwdz,
Shustar, and Dizful.
From Dizful to Khuramdbdd, a distance of 157 miles, with reference
to the facilities Jor constructing a cart-road, the tract has been classed
as good, fair, and bad; the good, 57 miles, is level and requires nothing
to be done to it beyond the removal of loose boulders to the existence of
which Lurs are quite callous ; the fair, 60 miles, requires to be widened
and cleared of stones ; the bad, 40 miles, requires to be widened and to
be zigzagged in places to lessen the gradients; in the ravines or passes
large boulders icill require to be blasted; otherwise there is little rock-
cutting required, and picks, crow-bars, levers, sledge hammers and gun
cotton will do all that is required. Within the hills road-metal is plen-
tiful.
Colonel Bell estimates the cost of construction as follows
Rs.
For the parts classed as good ..... 20 per mile.
,, j, >, „ fair ..... 100 ,,
„ » », „ bad 500 „
and for increase in length caused by its diminished gradient Rs. 500
per mile.
The average cost per mile therefore would be Rs. 160. {Bell.)
KHtJRANAK—Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Yazd, about 26 miles north-east of Ardakan.
{MacGregor.)
KHtTR-LSHfJLI—Lat. Long. Elev.
A herd-keeping clan of Iliyats in Ears, numbering some two
thousand families and inhabiting the region between Dehram and
Kilib Abadih. They possess some three hundred mules. {Mclvor.)
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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)
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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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