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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [315r] (634/686)
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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Sliustar = mans o£ Tabriz. Last year the crops partially failed,
4,000 Shustari mans were exported. Lucas gives it as 1,500 shahmans*.
Usually the export is larger.
Naphtha, both liquid and solid, is exported. Its price is 2 to 3|
kirans per one Shustari man. Export calculated at 5,000 mans.
Communication with Muhammarah by river up stream about ten
days, and down six or seven days.
Cost of transit 1| kiran per Shustar man.
To Isfahan the caravans take twelve stages, and cost of carriage ranges
from 1| to 3 kirans per man—
From Bhustar to Bihbahan caravans take five to eight days according to weather.
Cost of carriage 1 kiran per man. About Shustar rice is grown. Raw sugar
is imported and prepared for sale. It sells at 8 kirans per man. The greater
part of European goods are English, from India, but some goods also come
from Tabriz. Iron is sold at 1 tuman per bar of 6 mans.
From Khuramabad to Dizful 255 kilometres, or 158 miles.
Dizfid to Shustar direct 66 kilometres, or 41 miles.
Dizful to Fellabiah, near Mubammarah, 319 kilometres, or 198 miles.
Khuramabad to the Shatt-ul-Arab, say 3,356 miles.
(Map was attached, but not apparently trustworthy.)
The Shustar district is estimated at 22,000 souls, paying a revenue
of 22,000 tumans.
Dizful is a more important place now than Shustar. After the de
struction of Ahwazby Tlmurlang, towards the end of the 14th century,
Shustar, already an ancient city, became the centre of commerce in
Khuzistan, and continued to be so until the great plague ot 1331-32.
The plague, which dealt lightly with Dizful, left few people living in
Shustar. The Lurs and Persians, whom its magnificent and warlike
Khans had hitherto kept at a respectful distance, fastened on the
weakened but still wealthy city, and plundered it unmercifully. Die
surrounding country became infested by Lur and Arab robbers, an
the Persian trade, which had been prosecuted by the Karan, Shustar,
and Isfahan, took other and safer routes. One of these was that by
Amarah on the Tigris, Dizful, and Khuramabad, and Dizful thus
benefited by the ruin of Shustar.
Into the almost perpendicular sides of the sandstone hills north-east
of Shustar, and on the left side of the river, are cut many chambers and
niches, Gabar dakhmahs, and on the flat hill tops we see ^re and there
platforms, 6 feet by 4, which were used as places ^r washm the
dead. Here and there amongst the hills are rums of P 1 ^ 01 ms built of
stone, and remains of steps leading up to them. ie ^ i
Shustar was built, according to one authority, by a slav ® ^
itiP- to another bv Nur Ullah Ibn Sharif. Schindler gives a detailed
description of the water system of Shustar. It is considered Pj ™st
that a canal might be made carrying the river transport as fai as bhus
tar.
* The Shustar opium is sent through Muhammarah direct, and
Bftshahr to Maskat for transmission to Zanzibar;
607
sometimes via
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:340v, back-i
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