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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [40r] (84/302)
The record is made up of 1 volume (147 folios). It was created in 1904. It was written in English. 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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filling a natural indentation of the ground close to the post. There is
good camel grazing around and any amount of fuel in the vicinity. The
levy post itself is a small one built of mud bricks and has two rooms ; it
is the first stage for the d&k between Nushki and Robat. (Roome.)
BAGHAKWAH—
A karez that takes its rise in the Bagh-ke-Chashma and irrigates a
portion of the Nushki and Baghak plain. (Roome.)
BAGH-KE-CHASHMA—
A place in the southern part of Nushki plain in a gap in the line of
hills through which the Dose na/a runs. Here three karezes take their
rise within a few yards of one another, viz., Badalkhan, Nokju, Bagh-
akwah. (Roome.)
BAGI REG —
A sand-hill, one mile from Arbu, on the Nushki-Helmand route.
(Boundary Commissioni)
BAGO RIVER—
A small tributary of the Tahlab rising in the Koh-i-Rihi and joining
the Tahlab river about 10 miles below Mirjawa.
BAIATIR.—Lat. 28 ° 4 '; Long. 63 ° 14 '; Elev.
A place south of the Hamun-i-Mashkel about 10 miles south-west of
Wad-i-Sultan marked in the survey map as a trigonometrical height.
BAKHAL I-CHAH.—Lat. 28 0 54 , ;Long. 64 ° 55 '; Elev.
About 9 miles south-west of Yadgar Chah. It is about 40 ' deep, and
contains plenty of good water. Said to have been built by a Hindu trader,
hence the name Bakhal (
Bania
Merchant of Indian extraction.
), and is faced at the top with burnt brick.
(Webb-Ware.)
BALANOSH ZIARAT.—Lat. 22 ° 24 ' ; Long. 64 ° 38 ' ; Elev.
About 8 miles north-west of Chagai.
BALAR RIVER—
A nala draining into the west of the southern portion of the Lora
Hamun.
BALLUK WELL—Lat. 28 0 46 ; Long. 64 ° 43 '; Elev.
A halting-place about 2 miles north-west of Pirpuchi pass on the
Dalbandin-Kharan road.
BALUCHIR—
A peak in a narrow ridge which is an outlier of the main Kanuk range
in North-West Baluchistan passed on the road from Nushki to Shah
Ismail between the stages Kani and Umbai. At the foot of this peak,
about 3 miles north of the road, there is a well named Khwarreh, con
taining 2 feet of water, good, and 20 feet below the surface. Three
hundred sheep and fifty camels, which graze in the neighbourhood, are
daily watered here. There is a second well, at present partly choked
with drift-sand, about a mile nearer to the road. (Roome.)
BAMBAKAN.—Lat. 28 ° 52 '; Long. 64 ° 37 '; Elev.
A nawar in western Dalbandin fed by the Kanian nala.
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A report, marked as secret, on the area of Nushki, Chagai, and Western Sinjarani. The report was compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department. The report was commenced in 1897 by Captain R E Roome, 6th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob's Horse), and revised and completed by Major W C Walton, 104th Wellesley's Rifles, Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General in 1903. It was printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, in 1904.
The report includes a preface by Colonel John E Nixon, Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch (folio 5) and a glossary of vernacular terms used (folio 6). The main body of the report contains chapters on geography, communications, fortified posts and forts, climate, sanitation, resources, ethnography, history, administration, and military strength.
The second part of the report includes a gazetteer of topographical and ethnographic information (folios 36-127) and appendices covering wells, canals, and meteorology, and including a report on the signalling stations of the Dalbandin-Robat line, with sketches (folios 131-147).
The volume includes the following maps:
- Map of Southern Baluchistan (folio 2)
- Sketch Map of Signalling Line from Dalbandin to Robat (folio 148)
- Map of Persian Seistan [Sistan] Cultivated Area (folio 149).
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- 1 volume (147 folios)
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The volume includes a table of contents (folios 5-6) with reference to the original pagination.
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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 149; 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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