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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [137v] (279/504)
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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23E
184
tlian picturesquely, placed at the mouth of a gorge between two precipitous
hills. The houses, though small, are neat and built in terraces on the slops
or the gorge, with the naked and scarped rock rising abruptly above them.
Rich gaidens extend up the defile, and along the Lase of the mountain,
which produce a variety of fruits, including the celebrated stoneless grape,
known as that of Kerind (Asghari grapes). Ihe willow and lofty
poplar attain a considerable size on the margin of a mountain stream that
bisects the yidage, which is afterwards turned off into smaller channels for
the supply of the gardens in the plain. Several copious springs, issuing
from the plain, which is here about 3 mdes broad, add their water to
numerous mountain streams and form the sources of the Ab i-Kerind, the
north west tributary of the Karkah riverA
Kerind contains 1,200 houses. The people live by cultivation, and there
is a brisk trade on account of the constant passage of pilgrims. The women
weave some fine gilims.
Cutlery, metal work and gnn making are the principal industries of the
town. A rough imitation of the Peabody-Martini and Henry-Martini are
manufactured here, and bought np by the tribesmen Mo cartridges are
made here, but those imported, or smuggled through from Bagdad, are re
capped by hand, and used over and over again till v, orn out.
The inhabitants are all Aliullahis.
(2) The plain of Biwanij contains 14 villages.
The principal village is Sheikhan; elevation, 1,648 20 metres.
Governor: Taber Khan, a rich landed proprietor, to whom belongs all the
land between Rijab, Yaran and Zardeh.
Then we have the following villages :—
Walai (near the Gardaneh Baneban, which is situated between Tushami
and Biwanij), Cbia Mirekeh, Sartang, Deh-i-Jami, Deh-i-Litfeh (Litfeh is
the Kathoda's name), Deh-i-Ujak-Gidi (Ujakh Guli is the Katkhoda's
name), Kanahar, Biameh, Mamali, Birrehshabi, Kurchibashi, Assiab
Tanureh. In all about 400 houses. The Maliyat of the Biwanij district goes
towards paying the expenses of two companies of the Kerind regiment.
(3) Mountain villages such as Bijah (Riz-ab), elevation, 1,151*50 metres;
150 houses; plenty of gardens; maliyat, 450
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, which go towards
paying the expenses of the band of the Kerind regiment.
The villages cn the Tak-i-Gerra pass (Tak means arch, and Gerra is the
name of one of Knosroe Parvize^s odicers) are :—
Pai-Tak (PahTak-i Gerra, ?*.£., at the foot of the Tak-i-Gerra pass), lat.
34° 25' 12" K, long. 46° 12' 39" E.
20 houses. Pilgrims usually stop here, in order to avoid the village of
Mian Tak, the inhabitants of which are very extortionate and have the
reputation of charging 1 outrageous prices for fodder.
Mian-Tak the middle of the Tak-i-Girra pass), called by the Kurds,
Surkhadizeh ; 80 houses. There is here a large
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
m bad repair.
The villagers, as already mentioned, are very exacting towards the pilgiims.
Two or three of the villagers were hanged ; by order of Ala-ed-Dowleh, for
molesting pilgrims.
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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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