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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [37v] (79/722)
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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54
a village here with a few hundred palm trees. It contains 60 houses.—
(MacGregor.)
BA1DAR —Lat. , Lo\g. ; Elev.
A village at the foot of the Muminabad range of hills in the Narjun sub-
division of the district of Kain, Khurasan.—
BAIBA.GrU Lat. 5 Long. ; xjLev.
A village in Daraghaz north of Muhammadabad.—
BAIRAM-ULtJN — Lat. 37° 44' 0", -Long. 55° 2' 0"; Elev.
(Intelligence Department, War Office). _ ^ ^ . , r 7 .
A ford over the Atrak river, about £0 miles below Cdiat-i-Atrak.— (
gence Department, Jf ar Off re.)
]3AJ Lat. 32° 5L O''; Long. 59° 18' O''; Elev. (St. John).
A flourishing w T alled village of Khurasan, 7 miles east of Birjand, on the
road to Bui Khaf It contains 300 houses, and its inhabitants are Persians.—
(Stewart, Ferrier.)
BAKHABZ-Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A sub-district in Khurasan. It is bounded on the north by the Kal-i-
Manar ridge, west by the snowy Bakharz range, east by the Kuh-i-Bins
or Yaktan-Kuh, which divides it from Jam, and on the south by a long
slope which comes out from the Korab-Kuh to the Hari-Bud, including
Kakriz. The lower portion of this district is simply a barren stony waste
gtopiag like a glacier down from the hills , but above Shahr-i-Kau in the
plain, and in the hills about Kal-iAIanar, there is a very fine tract of
country, which only requires labour to make it very productive; as the soil is
good, and there is abundance of water.
The principal village of Bakharz is Shahr-i-Nau; which, unlike most
Persian villages, has been laid out with some attempt at regularity.
The population of Bakharz, numbering about 15,000 souls, is entirely
Tajik or Persian, except 500 families of Hazaras. The presence of these
Hazaras is accounted for by the fact that Bakharz belonged to Afghanistan
down to the reign of Fateh Ali Shah. In 1825 the then governor, having
quarrelled with the Persian Government, transferred himself and all his
people to Herat, whence the above-mentioned 500 families were brought back
in 1857 bv Sultan Murad Marza Hossain-i-Sultaneh, when he had to give
up Herat" to the Afghans. Since that time the population has been small,
but the people have in a great measure returned to their native villages.
The numerous abandoned villages and ruined karez, or underground
canals, show how much more populous this country was formerly than it is
now. It is a fertile land and could support a large population. The soil in
spring is for the most part covered with fine green sward. Yusaf Khan,
Hazara, the late governor, was deprived of the government in 1881. He
lived at Mohsinabad, 3,000 tumans being given him to build a fort. It is
not a strong place ; but the Hazaras are brave men, and the presence of 5(JO
families so near the border is a great check on Turkman raids, \usaf Khan,
though a brave and dashing border chief, had a bad character; and he and Ins
Hazaras are credited, with some truth, with all the murders and robberies
that take place in the neighbourhood. He has been replaced by a creature
of the Mutashar-ul-Mulk; and the new governor lives at Shahr-i-Nau, which
is less exposed to Turkman raids. In Bakharz the feeling is very anti-
English and pro-Russian.
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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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