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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [92v] (189/302)
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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very abundant, and the site is an important one, for from it branch off roads
to chaaai, Jalk Naru, Tahlab, and Kharan. It would be a smtable pent for
* depSt, being the point where the river has to be lef and possess,ng
soil whhd, might be cultivated ; stores might be collected and sheep
maintained here. (MacGregor)
HAKAKOR MUKAK.-Lat. 29 0 6'i Lon g- 6 ' 0 4 i';EIev.
Astaoeon the trade-route, 234 miles west of Sahib Chah and 134 miles
east of Saindak. There is a levy post garrisoned by levy troops.
Water is abundant from springs but slightly brackish. Camel-grazing
is good in the vicinity of the post, but firewood is scarce.
MAKI CHAH OR MUHAMMAD RAZA CHAH. Lat. 29 0 37' ; Long. 6,"
1 • Elev.
m tS miles south-south-east of Robat at the foot of the Mirjawa
range Water bad and aperient. also Appendix V.) [Scudamore)
MAKSOTAG WELL.-Lat. 28° 5 5 Long. 62° 45 '; Elev ‘ .
' \bout 20 miles north-west of Ladgasht on the road to Mirjawa. The
village consists of a few mud houses in a considerable grove of palm
trees’. Water brackish, wood and camel forage scarce. [See Goram.)
[Ahmad Ali Khan.)
MALIKAF—Elev. SiS 00 '-
The name of a small spring at the base of Koh-i-Malik Siah i also the
name of the plain lying between the western portion of the Shemidar
ranne and the Koh-i-Malik Siah. (Roomc.)
MALIK GAT— see Koh-i-Malik Gat.
MALIK IB RAH AM or DOKAND—
The conspicuous two-peaked hill, an ordinary march west (or west-
north-west) of Galla Chah in North-West Baluchistan. Its extraordinary
shape and great height make it a most unmistakeable landmark. It is also
very light fn colourt resembling in that respect Arbu and Samub
l ro ad from Sukaiuk to Galla Chah passes close under the foot of tins
hill and Ainak [a. v.) } and a nala called the Robat drains out between
these same two hills in a north-north-west direction to the Lut.
[Maitland)
MALIK MAMMU— Mammu.
MALIK NARU RANGE—
Also called the Chagai Sarlat. , , j u t thp
A mass of hills west of Chagai which form the watershed between the
HeLnand and the Gaud-i-Zirreh to the north and the Mashkel Hamun to
the south. To the north-east the range is quite impassable between tn
Shibian and Mazari passes, except by mountaineers. To the west he tn
lofty peaks of Malik Teznan (7,686'), Malik Naru (7,915 ), Nilgan (8,355.)
and several other summits over 6,000 feet. This part of the ra ^
traversed by three roads converging on Sukaiuk. In this range water
good and abundant and grass plentiful. [MacMahon.)
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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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