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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [130v] (265/504)
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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170
The landowners have the following revenues : —
On “ abi ° land one-third, sometimes one-fourth, of the harvest.
On “ daim ^ land one-hfth of the harvest^
The landowners only supply the land and water, cattle and labour being
furnished by the villagers. Proprietors also get a further 6 per cent on the
portion of the harvest belonging to the villagers, they also get small per
quisites on no definite scale, which vary according to agreement between
villagers and proprietors. Some of the usual charges are on one pair of oxen
or Sar juft:
1
toman
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
and 2 or 3 loads of fuel or straw, or
1 mann rogan and 5 krans, or
1 lamb and 5 krans.
Sometimes the perquisite is as small as 2 krans and 1 fowl, or J mann
rogan.
Villagers have also to supply labour free of charge, when their masters
are building.
When the landowner, over and above land and water, supplies seed and.
oxen, the villagers only get one-fourth of the harvest. For gardens one-third
of the produce goes to the proprietors.
Most of the villages are inhabited by Lurs or Kurds, a Turkish popula
tion is to be found at Sungor and in the village of Tavalabi, at the foot of
the Parau Mountain.
The province of Kermanshah is divided into 19 buluks or districts, which
are as follows Kermanshah, Vastam, Mian Darbend or Bilavar, Push
Parbend or Bala Darbend, Dinavar, Kuliai, £ahna, Kangavar, Assadabad,
Hersin. Chamchamal, Dnru Faraman, Mahidasht, Harunabad, Guran,
Kerind, Zohab, Aivan and Huleilan.
For part of the following, I am greatly indebted to Dr. Oskar Mann,
who not only very kindly collected all the information he could, but also
verified on the spot the various information already in my possession.
Other friends have helped me, but they prefer their names not to be
mentioned.
Buluk of Kermanshah .—The district of which the town of Kerman
shah is the centre.
The country, situated between half a farsakh and about 2 farsakhs from
the town, is known as the Baladeh ; and is under the authority of Mah-
mood Khan, chief of the Government grain stores. The Baladeh is said
to contain some 20 villages and hamlets.
The gorge to the south of Kermanshah, which is covered with gardens,
is known as the Sarah; and is divided into Sarah Said, Sarah Hemmeteh
and Sarah Kambar.
Sarah numbers 500 families, under the jurisdiction of Sherif Khan,
A min-ul- Mamalek.
The villagers of the Kermanshah district have no pasture land, but give
their cattle to Chupankeras, or the shepherd familes cf some of the tribes,
to be taken to the pasture lands of the Hulailanis, for which a rent is
paid.
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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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