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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [229v] (465/722)
The record is made up of 1 volume (384 folios). It was created in 1886-1895. 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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be Very gfteat. The other felted and woollen articles^ being merely for
internal consumption, need not be mentioned.
There are few other things that require attention. The arms, cutlery,
kalians (pipes), &c., which form objects of trade among themselves, might
doubtless be better supplied by European manufactures. Something
of this is done already, but in a trifling way, and not lucrative in
proportion to the risk. Such branches of trade may, however, increase
in time and by attention. One article may be noticed, as it has acquired
some celebrity—the wine of Shiraz. This is made in no great quantity
and in so careless a manner, that in choosing it not more than one
karaba (or large bottle) in four or five can be made use of. There is no
such thing as a cask in all Persia; and as the wine is fermented in
comparatively small earthen vessels or glass bottles, some idea may
be formed of the various and ill-concocted stuff that is too often pro
duced.
The chief manufactures of this kingdom are gold brocade, silk stuffs,
cotton cloths of various kinds, leather, shawls of an inferior quality, and
the most beautiful carpets. At Shiraz and Maragha are manufactories
of glass. Muskets, pistols, and carbines are made and mounted in most
of the great towns, and the best tempered and most esteemed sword-
blades are manufactured in Khurasan by the descendants, it is said, of
the celebrated cutlers of Damascus, transported thither by Taimurlane.
The manufactures of Persia may, therefore, be summarised as follows:
Shiraz—Arms, cutlery, glassware, ornamented pencases, silver and gold
pipes, tobacco pipes, cotton cloths, cotton and woollen stockings, and
wine.
Karman—Shawls, namads, and felt articles, carpets, matchlocks.
Yazd—Silk goods, cotton cloths, carpets, namads, loaf sugar, shoes,
ironware, earthenware.
Isfahan—Silk goods, velvets, chintzes, cotton cloths, gold and silver
brocades, glassware, paper, carpets, namads, fine cutlery, arms, bows and
arrows, gold and silver kalians, ornamented pencases, loaf sugar, sweet
meat, shoes and stockings, carpentry.
Kashan—Velvets, silk goods, cotton cloth, gold and silver brocades,
copper, household utensils, earthenware.
Kasvin—Cotton cloths, namads, stockings, swords, arms.
Khurasan—Swords, firearrns, stoneware, namads, woollen cloths, cotton
goods, sheepskin pelisses.
Mashhad—Y r elvets, swordblades, armour ; dishes, &c., of stoneware.
Birjand and Chain—Namads, felts, woollen fabrics.
Kachan—Sheepskin pelisses.
Mazandaran—Silk and woollen <roods.
Gilan—-Silk and cotton stuffs, woollens, cutlery, arms.
Tabriz Velvets, silk stuffs, carpets, namads, woollens, copper utensils,
cutlery, arms.
Karmanshah—Carpets,
Hamadan—Prepared leather, sadlery, shoes.
Burujird—Excellent carpets.
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This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department in India. It was printed by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, India in 1886.
The areas of Persia [Iran] covered are Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustan, Khurasan [Khorāsān], and Sistan. The boundaries of the areas covered by Volume I are as follows: the Afghan border from the River Helmand to Sarakhs in the east; and from there a line north-west to Askhabad, due west to the Atrak, which it follows to the Caspian Sea; then along the sea coast to Ashurada Island; then in a straight line to Shahrud; and from the latter south-east to Tabas hill, Sihkuha, and the Helmand, from where the river first meets the south-east border of Sistan.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements and buildings (forts, hamlets, villages, towns, provinces, and districts); communications (passes, roads, bridges, canals, and halting places); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, springs, wells, fords, valleys, mountains, hills, plains, and bays). Entries include information on history, geography, buildings, population, ethnography, resources, trade, agriculture, and climate.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes the following illustrations: ‘VIEW OF AK-DARBAND.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 12v]; ‘PLAN OF AK-KALA.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 14]; ‘ROUGH SKETCH OF ASTARÁBÁD, FROM AN EYE-SKETCH BY LT.-COL. BERESFORD LOVETT, R. E., 1881.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 24]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BASHRÚGAH’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 40v]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BÚJNÚRD’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 48]; and ‘BUJNURD, FROM THE S. W.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 49v].
It also includes the following inserted papers (folios 51 to 60): a memorandum from the Office of the Quartermaster General in India, Intelligence Branch to Lord Curzon, dated 6 December 1895, forwarding for his information ‘Corrections to Volume I of the Gazetteer of Persia’, consisting of articles on the Nishapur district of the province of Khorasan, and the Shelag river.
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The volume is arranged as follows from the front to the rear: title page; preface; list of authorities consulted; and entries listed in alphabetical order.
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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 388, 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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