'Notes on Persian Seistan' [39r] (82/142)
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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All in Afghan territory.
Genealogical Tree of Nahrni Baluchis.
Sheram (called Bk-nani, owin
Mohammed All Khan.
1 to the story which relates that he once made a loaf big enough to feed 100 men).
Mirza Khan (came to Seistan in Bahram Khan, Kaiani’s time, and was in hia service until killed by Gurgich Baluchis in Deh Khalikdad, after which this village
I was given to the Nahruis as compensation for his murder). °
Alam Khan (came to Seistan after Mirza Khan’s death).
Dost Mohammed Khan.
Sarhandi 'wife.
1
Derweish Khan.
Kaiani wife.
Kakaoos Khan.
1
Daughter,
married
Said Khan,
her cousin.
Abbas Khan Dost Mohammed
(in Birjand). Khan.
Two daughters.
Sharaki wife.
Jehangir Khan. Mohammed Ali
Khan.
Ghulam Hussein Akbar Khan
(in Quetta). (in Daruni).
Daughter
married Ibrahim
Khan, Sinjarani.
Sherif Khan.
Sherdil Khan.
All in Birjand.
Haider Khan,
married daughter
of Sherif Khan.
Beza Kuli Khan
(in Seistan).
n
Afzal Khan.
Ghulatn Khan
(in Kogah, south
of Band-i-Seistan).
I
Daughter,
married
Ibrahim
Khan,
Sinjarani.
I
Ali Khan.
Sultan Ali.
Zaman Khan,
Azim Khau.
Sher Ali,
net 24- in Baluch
Begiment at
Quetta.
Chiragh Ali.
1
Daughter,
married Sul
tan Ali Khan
Yar Mohammed
Khan.
I
Mohammed
Ibrahim Khan
(a contractor in
Quetta).
1
Taj Mohammed
Khan
(at Daruni near
Kwaja Ahmed).
Mohammed Ali Khan,
by daughter of Khan Jehan Khan, Sinjarani.
_ ^
Ahmed Ali.
Said Khan.
Haidar Ali Khan
(in Deh Ghulam
Khan).
1
Sher Ali.
Mohammed
Hassan.
By daughter of Dost Mohammed Khan.
Khodadad,
married daughter
of Mohammed
Ali Khan.
r~i —1
Haji Ali Khan. Haji Amir Khan.
By daughter of Khan
Jehan Khan.
I
Daughter.
I
Daughter,
married Hashmat-
ul-Mulk, Gover
nor of Seistan.
I
Sartip Mir
Ma’asum.
I
Daughter,
married Haider
Khan, her
cousin.
Sultan Ali Khan,
married daughter of Zaman Khan.
Mohammed
Alam.
Safdar Ali.
Daughter,
married Khan Jehan
Khan, Sinjarani.
Daughter,
married Ayub
Khan, Popalzai,
Governor of
Killa Bath.
Ghulam Ali.
1
Daughter,
• married Said Khan,
Kurd, is a widow and
now lives in
Sherifabad.
I
Haider Ali,
aet 20, with Sartip
Mir Ma’asum.
NOTES ON PERSIAN SElSTAN.
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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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