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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [52r] (108/536)
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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Route No. Ill— contd.
arrive at Robat-i-Bibi. A fair
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, a few walled in
gardens, and a few houses enclosed within walls.
Water .—Good and plentiful.
Fuel. —Available.
Grazing. —Available.
Supplies^ —Available.
6 TURBAT-I- .. 18f m. General direction NE.
■ — HAIDARI. Road undulates and
122f (3,900'). going is not always
good. At 2J miles a few acres of cultivation round some
ruins. Then a dry water course and the road rises on to a
plain, making for a gap in the hills visible 10 miles off bearing
about 70 degrees. At 7|- miles descent begins and after two
more miles gradual ascent begins. At 11 miles Sadrabad
village and
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. All the land here is cultivated. At
141 miles Biriabad. At 16 miles reach outlying gardens
and passing over a ridge reach Turbat at 18f miles.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE III (M).
KHIDRI to TURBAT-I-HAIDARI via AMRANI
and FAIZABAD.
108% miles. 5 stages.
Authority. —E. P. Cordon— 1918.
Epitome.—Stage 3 may be broken at Chah Gazi (3 saltish
wells in the desert at 19J miles) and stage 5 at the village of
Sadrabad at 9|- miles.
Route runs parallel to, and at an average distance of 4 miles
W. of the main Amrani-Maina-Turbat carriage route, with
which it is coincident for the first 4-| and last 5 miles. Stage 3
is a faintly marked camel track over flat desert. Stage 4 is a
good hard undulating carriage road along W. side of
Sikanderabad-Faizabad plain to crest of watershed dividing
that from the Sadrabad plain. Stage 5 is in this plain and
rises gradually the last 5 miles to Turbat.
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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.'.
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- 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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