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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [39v] (83/722)
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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BANMEDI. T . .
A clan of Baluchis numbering about 800 families. It is said that they
were brought 140 years ago by Nadir Shah and settled in Khurasan.—
Stewart.)
BARAD—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Tun subdivision of Tabbas, Khurasan.—)
BARAK—Lat. .Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 14 miles from Tun, on the road to Turshfz. It con
tains 300 houses, and can furnish supplies.— {MacGregor)
BARAKTJH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A fertile tract on the hill shirts north and north west of Sabzawar, with nine
principal villages, watered by springs and kanats. There are plantations of
wood, Vineyards, and orchards, and good crops of grain. Cotton and silk
are raised.— (Napier.)
BAR AN G ART.
A branch of the Hazara tribe (Sums) of Baighiz near Herat. One hundred
families of them live at Himatabad in Khurasan. There are many families
in the Bakharz district, who come for the sake of the good grazing in this
tract.—( Mac Gregor.)
BARAS—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A high snow-streaked range of mountains in Khurasan which closes the
Kam valley to the west. It trends in a north-westerly direction, and con
nects the elevated tablelands of Sar Bishah and Alghur with those of Ba-
jistan of the Tabbas and Tun district. Its eastern slopes dram into the
Kain valley, where its several streams form a considerable rivulet, which
flows past the town to the eastward.— (Bellew.)
BARDAS KHAN or BARDAS KAND— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev.
A village in the district of Turshfz, Khurasan, 75 miles from Sabzawar, on the
road to Tabbas. The road from Shahrud to Turbat-i-Hafdari also passes
through here. Bardaskhan is a large village with a good bazaar. There
is good water, and a few supplies are procurable.— (MacGregor, Stewart.)
BARDT?— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the valley of the Jam river occupied by Hazaras, who came from
Herat after the withdrawal of the Persian army in the year 1857.— (Pe
tr usevitch.)
BARGHAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Northern Khurasan, about 11 miles north-west of Kuchan,
and on the road from that town to Bujnurd.— (MacGregor.)
BARIABAD (Khurasan) — Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Turbat buluk of Turbat-i-Hafdari district, Khurasan.—(^e/-
lew.)
BAR-I-MADAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
One of the twelve buluks of the Nfshapur district of Khurasan. It consists
of a rough broken tract lying to the west of Marusk with five villages. It
has about ('00 houses of Biyat Turksu and 100 miners ; descendants, it is said,
of Badakshis, imported to work the turquoise mines for which Nfshapur
is famed. The soil is dry and unfertile. Grain produce is greatly depend
ent on rain. The mountains are barren and rocky, and furnish but scant
pasturage.— (Napier.)
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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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