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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [35v] (75/142)
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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80
NOTES ON PERSIAN SEISTAN.
led a purely nomadic lif§, until Allarson Khan, the great-grandson of Ghulam
Ali, acquired influence and property, and began to cultivate the land in the
neighbourhood of Karkohshah, which was their first settlement.
°Ali Khan, his son by a Brahui wife, some years later built the village of
Deh Dost Mohammed, which has been much improved by its present Kat-
khuda, Dost Mohammed Khan, head of the Sarunis at the present time.
The Sarunis, who are one of the Taoki tribes of Baluchis, are mostly
found in the Mahals of Bur-i-Mirgul, Deh Dost Mohammed, Padai, Margon,
Pulo-i, and in the north of the Miankangi district generally, and number
about^50 families who all live in Persian territory. They are rapidly dis
carding their Baluch habits and dress, and becoming regular Seistanis.
Genealogical tree of Saruni Baluchis.
Ghulam Ali (came to Seistan from Chageh in Baluchistan.)
r
Dost Mohammed Khan
(left no issue of
importance).
r
Ghulam Ali Khan,
r~
Sher Dil. 1
Kochak.
Khan Jehan Khan,
Shah Heg
(left no issue).
f
Daughter.
1
Jan Mohammed Khan.
Hussein. Khan Mohammed. Mahr Dil. Abbas Khan.
r
r
Allarson Khan.
AirKhan.
Daughter.
Dost Moham- Fakir Khan, Nnr Moham- Yar Moham- Fakir Moham
med Khan. 2 died 1890. med Khan. 3 med Khan. 4 med Khan.
"1
Amir Khan.
Both these boys live
in Burj-i-Mirgul.
Two young sons.
i Sher Dil is Katkhuda of Burj i-Mirgul, and married his cousin, a sister of Dost Mohammed Khan,
* Dost Mohammed Khan, KatVnuda of the village of the same name, is Chief of the Sarunis.
3 Katkhuda of Mahal-DNahr-i-Sartip.
4 Katkhuda of Pulgi and Margou.
Jemalzai.
This is one of the Taoki tribes of Baluchis, numbering about 300 families,
wbo all inhabit Persian territory. They are found chiefly in the Mian-
feangi district, and especially in the Mahal of Siadak, and are under the
influence of the Sinjaranis*
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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).
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- 1 volume (67 folios)
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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 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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