‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [132r] (268/504)
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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173
Porage and fuel are plentiful. The Kurdish nomads of the district, har
ing the command of extensive pastures, rear large numbers of small,
hardy horses and mules —[Captain Napier> 1875.)
Apart from grain a certain amount of cotton is yearly sown. The inhabi
tants are mostly Kuliai.
Sungur. —A flourishing agricultural town of 2,000 houses, 55 miles
from Kerman shah, on the road to Tabriz. Its gardens extend to the
skirts of the Dalakhana. A few carpets are manufacured here.
Kuhai. —A tribe of Kurds who number about 4,000 families. Their
chiefs are Aminullah Khan, Amin ul Lashkar and Haidar Ali Khan
Sarfip.
Their property amounts to some 1,000 hamlets, and extends up to
-Assadabad on one side, and into the province of Kurdistan on the other.
They are under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Sungur, to whom
they are answerable for the revenue.
Mr. T. C. Plowden, who passed through Kermanshnh in 1881, tells us
that this tribe was wealthy and prosperous, until ruined by the exactions
of Ali Guli Mirza, Saram ed Dowleh, who. having been appointed by his
father Imam Guli Mirza, Emad od Dowleh, “ Hakim of the Kuliai/'
plundered them right and left. In former days the tribe furnished an
infantry regiment, but, for some cause or other, the privilege was with
drawn.
The Soufiavand, who are connected with this tribe, and whose chief is
Fathullah Khan, claimed to be Turkish subjects, but Persia had the ease
^decided in her favour.
The Kuliais are Shiahs and are divided into a certain number of
branches, known under the names of their respective chiefs. The two
branches, which have names other than the names of their chiefs, are—the
Faalahkurri, who number 200 families under Mir Mohammed Khan and
Vali Khan, and the Soufiavand, who number 150 families.
The net revenue of the Kuliai district was 17,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
for the year
1*902. J
Btdvk of Sakna. —This district can be divided into two distinct
parts:—
1. Sahna and its immediate dependencies, which were formerly Kha-
lesseh, but have been given in Tuyool to Vezir ed Daftar of Teheran and
his descendants.
The chief place is Sahna, long. 47° 38' 24" E.; elevation. 1,559*40
metres. It is a small but flourishing town, 37 miles east of Kermanshah,
on the road from Kermanshah to Hamadan, between Bisutun and Kan-
gavar. It is situated at the foot of a range of precipitous rocky hills,
where there are some ancient caves. The
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, built by the Hajji of
Nirwan, is fast going to ruins. When Taylor and Ferrier visited Sahna,
it was a flourishing place of 500 houses. Bozario, after the great famine,
found only 100 families remaining.
In Sahna are to be found a few Atishheghi Seyyeds of the Aliullahi
sect. The town, which is surrounded by gardens, is said to contain at
the present moment 20d houses.
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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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