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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [36v] (77/722)
The record is made up of 1 volume (384 folios). It was created in 1886-1895. 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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BAGH-I-SlAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. /
A village in the Giinabad subdivision of the Tabbas district in Khurasan —
{Be Hew.)
BAGHISTAN —Lat. , Long. j Elev. '
A village m the Gasht-i-Rukh subdivision of the district Turbat-i-Haidari In
Khurasan.-— [Belleio.) m
BAG HE AN- — Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '
A range of hills south-east of Birjand. The hills are bare and slaty * and
of various colours (black, green, red, grey), and the surface appears'to be
much disintegrated. The base of the hills is studded from east to west by
a close succession of hamlets, forts, villages, and gardens, the ground beino-
very fertile.— [Bedew.) ' °
BAGHldN— Lat. ^ , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan in the subdivision Khaf of the district Ghain —
(Be Hew.)
2 5,°/ Loxo ' 5S ° n ' 20 "; 4,300' (W„lhr.)
le cine: town of the hnhik or division of the same name belonffini? to
the district ot Tabbas in the province of Khurasan. It contains about 2 000
houses surrounded by gardens, and has a population of some 4 000 souls
(Rozano says only 2,000), consisting of Sayads, merchants, mullas, and the
commons. It has also a ruined fort, 2 good caravanserais, 4 “ hammams
50 mosques, and 70 shops. It is famous for the manufacture of a very
costly species of cloth made of goat's wool, and called “ barak," and of a
cheap silk material called “ Chadar-i-Shahi It is also celebrated for its
excellent water-melons and abundant fruit Three Icanats supply it with
water Its situation is at the base of a bare hill running east and west for
d or 4 miles.
There are still to be seen the remains of an ancient hanat, of which the
tradition is that it was built in the time of the Safasian kings, and that
whoever drank ot its waters became mad. Another ancient tradition, common
among the natives, is that the whole of the country around Bagistan was
once crossed by the sea, and that the place derives its name from a toll
and to take, alluding to the toll at the ferry paid by travellers for
boat hire when the water had partly receded.
It is the tmrd stage (80 miles) from Tun on the road to Mashhad.—(GW
smut, bedew, Stewart, MacGregor, Rozario.)
BAG IS TAN, ok B 1.1 i STAN—Lat. , Long. • Elev. '.
One of the fi ve buiuks of the Tabbas district. It contains the following
vn ages : ■ ijijdan, Kalata Mirza, Darais, Warzu, Darchah Darkas, Purkak,
Ruiy.ang, Sardeh, Fakhrabad, Yunsi, Marandaz, Rud-i-Gaz, and others.
^ ajis an is m a \a ey , the mountains surrounding it consist of mounds of
basalt granite, metamorphic rock, green rock, slates, and yellow and red
Giift stones of every description and saline deposits are found in the
watercourse; good-sized bena trees, together with smaller plants of rhu-
aiD, a sm , ro n m tulips, and lilies, are seen about the hills. Barley,
wheat, opium, and silk are produced in fair quantity. The district suffered
Cal # ^ tom e famine of 1872 by death and emigration. The villages
^7 ^ 16 Ul0to vve ^ watered, and their fields fertile.— [Rosario,
Bedew.) K 3
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This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department in India. It was printed by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, India in 1886.
The areas of Persia [Iran] covered are Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustan, Khurasan [Khorāsān], and Sistan. The boundaries of the areas covered by Volume I are as follows: the Afghan border from the River Helmand to Sarakhs in the east; and from there a line north-west to Askhabad, due west to the Atrak, which it follows to the Caspian Sea; then along the sea coast to Ashurada Island; then in a straight line to Shahrud; and from the latter south-east to Tabas hill, Sihkuha, and the Helmand, from where the river first meets the south-east border of Sistan.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements and buildings (forts, hamlets, villages, towns, provinces, and districts); communications (passes, roads, bridges, canals, and halting places); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, springs, wells, fords, valleys, mountains, hills, plains, and bays). Entries include information on history, geography, buildings, population, ethnography, resources, trade, agriculture, and climate.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes the following illustrations: ‘VIEW OF AK-DARBAND.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 12v]; ‘PLAN OF AK-KALA.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 14]; ‘ROUGH SKETCH OF ASTARÁBÁD, FROM AN EYE-SKETCH BY LT.-COL. BERESFORD LOVETT, R. E., 1881.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 24]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BASHRÚGAH’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 40v]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BÚJNÚRD’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 48]; and ‘BUJNURD, FROM THE S. W.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 49v].
It also includes the following inserted papers (folios 51 to 60): a memorandum from the Office of the Quartermaster General in India, Intelligence Branch to Lord Curzon, dated 6 December 1895, forwarding for his information ‘Corrections to Volume I of the Gazetteer of Persia’, consisting of articles on the Nishapur district of the province of Khorasan, and the Shelag river.
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The volume is arranged as follows from the front to the rear: title page; preface; list of authorities consulted; and entries listed in alphabetical order.
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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 388, 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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