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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [51r] (106/142)
The record is made up of 1 volume (67 folios). It was created in 1903. It was written in English and Persian. 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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DEH
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DEH ALT JAFAK.—
A village of 25 houses, belonging to the Mahal-i-Jazinalr, and situated in
the Sharaki district. It draws its water by a separate canal from the Zahak.
'Resources. —Three ploughs of cultivated laud, 20 cattle, 250 sheep and
goats, and 10 donkeys. r
DEH ALT MARDAN-J-LANG.—
A village of 90 wattle-aud-daub huts, which is the head-quarters of the
Mahal-i-Sartip, Mir Ma’asurn, in the Miankaugi district. The inhabitants
are Suruni and Kashaui Baluchis.
Besources. —Eighteen ploughs of cultivated land, 40 cattle, 600 sheep and
goats, 70 camels, and 60 donkeys.
DEH ALLASUFI.—
A village of 40 houses, belonging to the Mahal of Chilling in Sheb-i-Ab
and built on the banks of a small canal branching from the Kud-i-Sheb-i-Ab!
Resources, —Three ploughs of cultivated land, 1 horse, 50 cattle, and 20*
donkeys.
DEH ARBAB.—
A well-built village of 180 houses, situated close to the main track leading
from Nasratabad to Deh Dost Mohammed in the most extensively cultivated
and irrigated part of the Pusht-i-Ab district, about six miles from Nasrata
bad.
The cultivation of the village is watered by several small canals, leading
from one of the main branches of the Rud-i-Bunjar,
The inhabitants are of many small Seistan clans, chief among them
being Panjkah and Arbab.
Resources. —Fourteen ploughs of cultivated land, 12 horses, 150 cattle,
160 sheep and goats, and 170 donkeys.
DEH ASHGAR.—
A village of 40 houses in the east of Pusht-i-Ab, on the canal, which takes
off from the Rud-i-Bunjar near Deh Masti Khan and leads to Kasimabad.
The inhabitants are Kamali and Panjivah.
Resources. —Four ploughs of cultivated land, 10 cattle, 300 sheep and
goats, and 25 donkeys.
DEH AS-I-HAJI KARIM.—
A small village of 25 houses, situated on the southern edge of an inlet of
the Naizar, in the extreme north of the Miankangi district. From the
remains of an old mill near the village an excellent view of the surrounding
country can be obtained.
Resources .—Three ploughs of arable land, 4 horses. 400 cows. 150 sheen,
and 20 donkeys. *
deh awaz.—
A small village of 20 houses in the north of Sheb-i-Ab, belonging to the
large village of Daodi. It is situated close to the edge of the Naizar or
Hamun, on the Nahr-i-Daodi.
The inhabitants are of the Sayad and Gallawi clans.
Resources. —Four ploughs of cultivated land, and few cattle and sheep,
deh bachadur.—
A tamarisk wattle village of 60 houses in the Nahrui district, belonging to
the Mahal of Sharistan-i-Kohna.
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A confidential report on the Persian region of Seistan [Sistan]. The report was compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, 1st Battalion (Lincoln Regiment), in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General's Department. The report was printed at the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India, 1903.
The report contains information on geography, canal systems, communications, routes, climate, resources, ethnography, administration, agriculture, and local dialect. Included within the volume are the following:
- District tables for Miankangi, Pusht-I-Ab, Mahal-I-Nahrui, Mahal-I-Sharaki, and Sheb-I-Ab, with statistics on numbers of houses, ploughs, horses, oxen, sheep and goats, camels, and donkeys for each village in each district (folios 7-28)
- Genealogical tables for the various tribes in the region (folios 34-39)
- Vocabulary and useful phrases in the local dialect (folios 42-45)
- A map showing the cultivated areas of the region (folio 69).
Part II of the report is a gazetteer (folios 46-65).
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- 1 volume (67 folios)
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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 68; 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.
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- 'Notes on Persian Seistan'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:67v, back-i, 69r:69v
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