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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [112r] (228/504)
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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133
protection to caravans and pilgrims, transplanted a certain number of
families to spots which were named Mozafferabad, ISlasirabad, Ahmadabad
and Husseinabad. The villagers were exempted from all taxes. These
numerous villages along the road afford protection to caravans ; as help is
close at hand, and robbers can easily be traced if they pass by any of the
villages. These villages are made of reed huts, and a village is often
removed a mile or two distant from its old site, thus making the drawum--
up of maps very difficult indeed.
60 inhabitants. Cultivation: rice.”— (Post-Master, SaripoL)
KALLEH-SHAHIN—Kalhor.
Belonging to the Hajji-Zadehs. Malyat Krans 1,629-54.9 dinars cash.
A small ruined fort on the Paikala range, in the district of Kalhor,
whence is the name of an extensive plain, lying between the above ranoeand
that of Dukkan-i-Daud. This was purchased by the Kalhor chiefs from
their Turkish proprietors, about the beginningof last century.— (Rawlinson
and Plowden.)
It is 6 farsakhs long by 2-3rds farsakhs wide. The cultivation
is grain and rice, of which about 2,000 kharvars grain and 1,000
kharvars rice is said, by the Kalhors, to be produced at Kalleh Shahin and
in its dependencies. 500
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
cash is paid yearly by the royyahs to the
landowners.
Rawlinson says : tl Kalleh Shahin, immediately contiguous to the old city
of Hoi van, was unquestionably included in the territory of the Kurdish
prince of Darhand and Darnah, who, at the time of the treaty of 1639 in
the reign of Murad IV of Turkey and Shah Suffi of Persia, or at any rate
shortly before it, ruled over Zohab and the whole of the adjoining moun
tains. The lands of Kalleh-Shahin indeed were only purchased by the
Kalhor chief from the Turkish proprietors, about 40 years ago; and, 1 have
always heard in this country, the right of Persia to Gilan as placed in pre
cisely the same category with her claims upon the pashalik of Zohab.”
KALLEH-SHAH-KHANI—Bala-Darband.
A village of the district of Bala-Darband. Malyat Krans 155-141 dinars
cash and Kharvars 5 grain.
A village in Kermanshah, 44 miles from Kermanshah, on the road to
Senneh, and 49 miles from Senneh. It is situated on a fine plain, near the
junction of the Rezawar with the Karasu river, and not far from the
boundary between the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah.
KALLEH-SHEKUR-SHIEIN—
In Bishiveh plain. (See Survey Department Map.)
KALLEH-SHEIKH-GARAN—
A village about 6 miles east of Kamyaran, on the boundary between
Kermanshah and Kurdistan.— (Gerard.)
KALLEH-SHAHMELIK—‘Zohab.
A village, distant 1 farsakh from Kasr-i-Shirin and 2 from Kalleh Sabzi,
on the road between those two places. It numbers 15 houses of Sinjabis.
Katkhoda: Amir Khan. Cultivation: grain.
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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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