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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [64v] (133/142)
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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TAGHAZI.— . . . jo
A village of 60 houses in the Pusht-i-Ab district, about o miles
Nasratabad on a small canal branching from the Rud-i-Adimi.
inhabitants are of the Sargazi and Taghazi clans chiefly.
Resources .—Seven ploughs of cultivated land, 30 cattle, 250 sheep and
goats, 7 camels, SO donkeys.
TAMABABAD.- . .
A well-built village of 100 houses, with a few fruit gardens, in the Sheb-i-Ab
district on the Nahr-i-Daodi.
Resources ploughs of cultivated land, 6 horses, 50 cattle, 200
sheep and goats, 10 camels, and 40 donkeys.
TAPP A KANIZ,—
A village of 50 wattle-and-daub huts situated in the extreme north, of the
Miankangi district, which obtains its water-supply from the Nahr-i-Sartip
Mohammed Reza, and belongs to the Mahal of the same name. The
inhabitants are Baluchis of the Saruni, Jemalzai and other smaller clans.
Resources .—Eight ploughs of cultivated land, 30 cattle, 200 sheep and
goats, and 50 donkeys.
TILEAK.—
A small village of about 45 houses, in Pusht-i-Ab, about half a mile from the
Rud-i-Parian. The water-supply of the village was formerly obtained from
the Alamdar. But of late years a new canal has been cut from the Rud-i-
Parian. Tilfak with Khadang are the only villages outside Miankangi,
which obtain water from this branch of the Helmund. The inhabitants are
chiefly of the Panjkah and Khimmar clans, and a few tents of Panjkah are
attached to the village.
Resources .—Six ploughs of cultivated land, 2 horses, 20 cattle, 490 sheep
and goats, 2 camels, and 28 donkeys.
TILLAR.—
A village of 50 houses, belonging to the Mahal of Chilling, situated on a
branch of the Shela Kafir canal, in Sheb-i-Ab.
Resources .—Three ploughs of cultivated land, 1 horse, 80 cattle, 20 sheep
and goats, and 30 donkeys,
T UTI.—
A well-built village of 150 houses, in which there are numerous fruit
gardens, in the south-west of Sheb-i-Ab, near the mouth of the Shela Kafir
canal and close to the ed^e of the Naizar or Hamun. The inhabitants are
chiefly of the Kakha tribe.
Resources. —Twenty-eight ploughs of cultivated land, 6 horses, 60 cattle,
40 sheep and goats, 3 camels, and 70 donkeys.
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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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