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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [314v] (633/686)
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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sian rule; their efforts have been abortive, and their desire to better them
selves, their countrymen, and posterity has been met with the habitual
discountenance of their rulers, whose aim has ever been to prevent
Shustar from rising to that importance which its situation and natural
advantages justly entitle it to hold.
Close to the hills, watered on all sides by the river and canals,
numerous gardens close around; Shustar presents a most pleasing ap
pearance, and would in a short time, with proper encouragement, again
be held in that estimation it was formerly, and become one of the first
commercial towns in Persia.
Between the first range of hills under which the town is built, and
the second from whence the river first emerges, is the plain of A kill,
watered by the river and numerous canals, and presenting, as far as the
eye can reach, one vast corn-field, studded with numerous villages and
date and orange gardens. In it are also the remains of a very large
canal cut from the river near the second range of hills, and which even
now is upwards of 80 yards broad. This was carried through the plain
to the eastward of the river, irrigating the whole country. Modern
canals of great extent and in good repair with which the whole plain is
intersected serve at present to irrigate the country, to assist nature in
rendering this one of the most fertile spots in the whole province.
Selby has the following remarks on the position of Shustar : “ From
the Shustaris" leaning to the English, their hatred of the Persians,
who have by their tyranny, oppression, and exactions, well earned it,
the proximity of Shustar to India, which, thanks to steam, can now
be made, at any season a passage of, at most, 18 days, the greatest
facility for steam navigation offered by vast quantities of wood all
along the banks, all combine to point out Shustar as the spot from
which we might pour an unlimited force into the heart of the country.
In aturally strong, being completely insulated, capable of being rendered
almost impregnable, Shustar might, in our hands, become a thorn in
Persia s side, which she could never eradicate. From Shustar to the
interior of Persia there are five roads practicable for heavily laden
animals and even for guns—
1 . By Dizful to Khuratnabad to Karmanshah and Hamadan.
2. Direct to Isfahan through the Bakhtiari country by Gotwand and Bazuft.
3. By Kala-i-Tul, and Fallal, to Kumishah.
4. By Bihbahan, Dih Dasht to Falat and Kumishah.
5. By Bihbahan to Shiraz through the Mamaseni country.
Rivadaneyra’s Notes, 1875.
Shustai has 7,000 inhabitants,—Jths of town in ruins. When there
is much water, small steamers pass up the river as far as Shustar ; small
steamers can pass to Ahwaz.
Caiavans go to Bihbahan in eight days, but the route is rather difficult.
1 le contribution of Shustar to the revenues is 21,000 tumans.
Honey abounds in the hills to the eastward. Naphtha is found, and the
peison who has the monopoly of this pays 400 tumans yearly to the
overnment. Opium is largely grown, and its cultivation is yearly
incieasing, superseding cereals. The price is 12 tumans per man of
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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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