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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [44r] (92/722)
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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1,500. The revenue realized is 1,300 tumans cash and 150 kharwars o£
grain.— (Bellew, Napier.)
BOGHBAR— La.t. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Sistan inhabited by Dikkan and mixed tribes.— [Napier.)
BOKSTJM— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, about 12 miles from Khaf, on the road to Kam.—
[Stewart.)
BOLAKANL
The name of a tribe of Baluchis who wander over Khurasan. They num
ber 200 families.— [Stewart.)
BORA (Khubasas)— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A river in the Nishapur district of Khurasan.— [Khanikoff.)
BRAZO— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan to the west of the Gunabad valley, on the road from
Kakh to Bajistan, and about 17 miles from the former town. It has about
100 houses, and an abundant water-supply from a hill spring. It is sur
rounded with fruit gardens, poppy beds, and corn fields.— [Bellew.)
BOHNABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan in the tract of country known as Zir Kuh-i-Kain.
It is on the borders of the Kam district in the direction of Khaf, and is situ
ated at the foot of the Kwaja-Shaz range of mountains. The surrounding
country is sandy and stony, but in spring is covered with thin grass.—
[Stewart.)
BUJD*—Lat. S2° 50' 40", Long. 59'’ 17' 30"; Elev.
[St. John.)
A village of Khurasan in the Narjun buluk of the Kam district, 7 miles
east-south-east from Birjand. It is built along the side of a low ridge which
runs down the centre of the Birjand valley. In Yar Muhammad's time it was
the residence of the Afghan Revenue Collector for Kain district. Now, how-
ever, it has only some 80 houses. Above the village is a ruined fort, and the
houses are built in terraces down the slope. It is a picturesque village, and
has a large radius of cultivation, chiefly cotton and wheat, with numerous
jujube trees, mulberries, and poplars. It is plentifully supplied with water
by “ kanats " from the Kuh Bagrran hills to the south-east. It has an im
portance as the place whence all the roads east of Birjand radiate, viz., to
Herat, Sabzawar (Afghanistan), Earah, Lash, and Sistan. [MacG't egoi,
Gold amid, Euan-Smith, Bellew.)
BUJDI—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^ T .
A village of Khurasan in the Alghur buluk of Kain district. It is about
10 miles from Birjand on the road to Kam. {Bellew .)
BUJIKALA— Lat. 37° 26'80'', Long. 5S° 48' 0"; Elev.
I Ns CLTJlCT)
A village in the State of Daraghaz, Khurasan, on the road from Daraghaz to
the Atak. It contains 20 houses.— [Napier.)
BUJNTJRD DISTRICT. , , o- w a at
The chiefship of Bujnurd includes Bujnurd, Simalghan, and Mana on the
Atrak, and Jah Jarm, Isferaym ; and the valleys of
Tracts included. Buo>norai, Bam, Safiabad, and Juvain have only of
* Shown as “ I3aj ” in Colonel Walker’s map, 1881.
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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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