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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [53r] (110/536)
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.
village of 400 houses. Two karezes with plentiful water. This
valley is very fertile and supplies in large quantities can be
obtained from surrounding villages which are numerous.
2 AMRANI .. 18 m. Road bears due E.
and then turns N.
44: out of village, and
crosses low ridge of sand hills and then level plain to Ghujd
6 J miles a small village with one karez. The Jumin-Birmuch
track is crossed at 2J miles. Villages of Khaibari and Diluhi
passed on left. Road passes through small village of Naudeh
at 21 miles. From Ghujd road enters low hills which it leaves
at 15 miles and enters Amrani plain, small hamlets of Kalateh
and Dezu passed en route. Amrani is stronghold of Amrani
robbers about 100 famihes.
Amrani is a small treeless village on the main post wagon
route from Kain to Turbat 16 miles N. of Jumin.
Cultivation .—On all sides of village except N.
Supplies .—Small quantities of Bhusa and grain obtainable.
Water .—From 7 hauzes of which 2, at the N. and S. ends of
the main street supply the inhabitants with drinking water.
The hauz at the S. end is unusually large and deep with good
cold water. There is also a stream on E. side of village which
has water sufficient for 1 brigade with camel transport and
flows N. from Dezu.
Camping ground .—On N. edge of village if crops standing,
otherwise S.E. of village.
Grazing .—Very good and plentiful on plain to N.
General .—One big
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
where Persian post-horses
are changed between Jumin and Robat Kamahi. Letters can
be sent, though no regular P. O. Road to Miandeh (about 22
miles) leaves village at bearing 332.
3 FAIZABAD .. 31f m. Road to Faizabad
leaves village along
75f road to Maina at
bearing 10. Road is good hard and broad over gently, sloping
plain covered with good grazing. Ground becomes undulating
at 3 miles and at 4 j miles road j asses through a gap in a long
sandy ridge running roughly E. and W. Route here leaves
the main road and runs due N. under Mohrkuhak as a single
undulating camel track over alternate patches of pat and sand
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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)
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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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