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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [38r] (80/142)
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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65
NOTES ON PERSIAN SEISTAN. @5
Sayid Ali owns a tract of excellently cultivated ground between the
villages mentioned above, and lives in a house in a fine walled enclosure in
AJiabad.
He is on good terms with the Amir, who allows him an escort of 30
sowars, and is looked up to by all Seistanis as their religions head. He
holds aloot horn foreigners of whatever nationality, and has so far been
interviewed by no European.
The villages under the influence of the Sayids are*^
Aliabad Heh Kbalikdad, Kala-i-Kohna, Kala-i-Nau, Deh Sukhta
Pulgi-i-Nau, Kalapabas, Kaftargi, Pokak, Gori, and Mohammedabad.’
Genealogieal trees of Nabrui, Sinjarani, and Sharaki are attached, no
account ot these tribes being given, as they have been described before.
Genealogical tree of Sharahi Tribe.
Sabdab Hashim Kham-.
r
Mir Mehdi Khan.
Mohammed Ali Khan.
Ali Akbar Khan.
r
"i
Karbali Khan. Hashim Kahan.
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Ali Khan 1
(Katkhuda of Dashtak).
f
Sadollah Khan.
Mir Mehdi Khan
(Katkhuda of Khamak).
r
r
Abba^Khan.
Sherdil.
Ghulam Khan
(Katkhuda of Lupak).
1
Daughter, *
Ghulam Khan,
aet 30.
"1
Hassan Khan,
aet 23.
Aga Khan, Kakir Khan.
(Young hoys living in Khamak.)
f
Jehangir Khan
(Katkhuda of Wasilan).
Mohammed Hassan Khan
(Katkhuda of Burj-i-Sarband).
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Ali Khan is now head of the Sharaki tribe in Seistan.
2 Married her cousin Jehangir Khan.
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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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- 'Notes on Persian Seistan'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:67v, back-i, 69r:69v
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