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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [49r] (102/536)
The record is made up of 1 volume (264 folios). It was created in 1928. 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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7 SIKANDRABAD 12 m. General direction N.
(3, OO'). Good camel road,
124 flat, fit for carts
through fair sized villages of Chinta and Nasratabad.
Abundant water en route and good karezes at Sikandrabad ;
serai. Ordinary supplies for travellers. Enough for a
cavalry regiment might be found. Fair camel grazing.
Stage fit for motors.
Water. —Good and abundant.
Grazing. —Fair.
8 TURBAT-I- .. 17 m. General direction NE.
— HAIDARI Road fit for motors-
141 (4,500')- Pass Jinnuk (large
village, supplies) and Birriabad (very large village with
supplies). Abundant water en route. Last 3 miles through
gardens and suburbs of town.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE HI(K).
JUMIN (III (J)) to TURBAT-I-HAIDARI (Stage
27) via JxANGAL and BIRMUCH.
100 miles. 5 stages.
Authority. —E. P. Cordon, 1918.
Epitome. —Road is good with hard surface except for sandy
stretch of 3 miles in stage 3 and the nala in stage 4. Vehicles
could pass along this route making short detour in stage 3
and provided banks of nala in stage 4 were improved.
In stage 2 the road is commanded by sand hills on both
sides of road between 5th and 8 th mile and in stage 4 at lip
miles where road crosses the river, it is commanded by hills,
on either side.
Camping grounds. —One regiment cavalry.
Water and Supplies. —Sufficient to move two troops cavalry
along this route.
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. (Volume I.) (Khorasan and Sistan.) General Staff India 1928 (Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1928).
The volume contains details of land routes. The information given for each route comprises:
- number of route;
- place names forming starting point and destination of route;
- authority and date;
- number of stage;
- names of stages;
- distance in miles (intermediate and total);
- remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, religious affiliations, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
The volume also contains a map entitled Index Map to Routes in Persia Vol. I ., which shows a region of northern and eastern Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks and paths. The map was printed by the Simla Drawing Office, Survey of India, and includes a printing statement which reads 'S.D.O.S.I. No 5376. June 28.'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (264 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume includes a glossary (folios 246-250) and an index (folios 251-263), and provides a map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 265).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 266; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:264v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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