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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [4r] (12/142)
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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PREFACE.
♦
T HESE Notes on Seistan are published in order to supplement
and correct previous reports on the country.
Owing to the flatness of the country and the soft nature
of the soil, the Helmund from time to time changes its bed and
consequently alters the situation of the canals by which the
country is irrigated. The result is that towns and villages and
formerly cultivated areas are deserted, and the inhabitants move
to a new place and found new villages in the vicinity of the newly
cultivated area.
This made it somewhat difficult to collate the previous inform
ation which had been supplied from various sources at different
times, and Captain Plunkett has therefore now tried to furnish,
as accurately as is possible under present conditions, a complete
list of all the villages, cultivation and resources of the province
as they now exist. In order to do this he traversed Seistan in
every direction during a tour extending over rather more than
three months, and has personally seen every village and locality
mentioned in these notes.
E. W. S. K. MACONCHT, Major,
Assistant Quarter master-General,
Intelligence Branch.
Simla ;
The 30th Tune 1903.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (67 folios)
- Physical characteristics
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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- English and Persian in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Mss Eur F111/382
- Title
- 'Notes on Persian Seistan'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:67v, back-i, 69r:69v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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