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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [105r] (214/302)
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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I 9 I
In 1884 Sharif Khan was lord of
Helmand from Dakdela and Tirkoh downwards to the Band-f-Selun and
thence down to the right bank to Del. Kamran. He and Ibrahim Khan
married each other's sister, according to Merk,-« si
One of his daughters ,s married to Ali Akbar Khan, Governor of Seisfa ,
and eldest son of the late Amir of Chain, while another is married to
Saiad Khan, Kurd of Sarhad. His sons were-Saiad Khan son of
Ibrahim Khan s sis er, Sultan Ali Khan and Muhammad Ali Khan a°l
hung (l8t 4) at Kala-i-hath, as also his brothers Ali Khan and Sultan Ali
K an. Sharif Khan himse f was in Kabul, where he remained in honour,
able detention till h.s death about six years ago, Merk says 1-
He (Sharif Khan) and his immediate relatives are lukewarm Shiahs
or rather professed that faith whilst under Persian influence, and since
he came over to the Afghan is openly a Sunni. Like most Baluchis the
Shiranzais are probably careless of religious forms' and incline to which-
ner sect of Islam has power over them. The Naruis generally
Sunn , ,s ,n Afgh “ territor y- 01 the cultivators and tenants
of Shanf khan, at least one-tl„rd are Seistani Shiahs. The tract possessed
by Sharif Khan probably holds about 1,200 families, of whom 200 or 2 W
arc Narui Baluchis.” After the death of Sharif Khan his sons were sum.
moned to Kabul, and were afterwards sent by the Amir to Turkistan
but escaped on the road. One, Saiad Khan, made his way to Peshawar
and thence to Seistan via Quetta. Another, Muhammad Ah Khan, came
down the Helmand to Seistan, and since then has lived mostly in Sarhad
with the Baluchis there, and with them has paid no revenue to any Gov-
at "Tku' °' f the 0ti . Aer S ! lltan Ali K ha n. Colonel Yate’s informant,
Ah Akbar Khan, Chief of Seistan, apparently made no mention, but
Lieutenant Napier states that after Sharif Khan’s death his sons returned
to Seistan,^ and Alam Khan, the then Persian Governor, gave them the
village of Khvvaja Muhammad. That and the Persian village of Malik
were the only Narui villages in Persian Seistan at the time Lieutenant
Napier s visit in 1893. Ihey are divided into the following sections :—
1st. —Rakhinanis.
2nd. —Sajadis.
3rd. —Kasojis.
4th —Kurds (or Shahedis).
5ch .—Mings (or Minds).
dM.—Arbabis.
yth. —Malikahs,
The true derivation of this name “ Narui ” appears to be that given by
Maitland, /.£>., that their home was originally at or near Koh Naru.
Appended is a genealogical tree of the Narui chiefs.
(Pottinge* — Masson — ftoss-~St John — MacGregor — Maitland.)
Baluchis (narui).
1
Alam Khan.
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Muhammad.
I
VII
birwesh.
Ill
Sharif Khan.
I
vm
Sons.
IV
Sher Dil.
I
iX
Haider Ali.
V
Azim.
I
VI.
Daughter.
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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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