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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [79v] (163/722)
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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evident that they are being gradually undermined by the canal, 'there are
no reeds or rushes growing on the banks of the canal, which flows with a con
siderable current. The canal is full of fish, some of a tolerable size, of the
barbel species. The town contains some 500 houses, with a square mud fort
in the middle, having towers at each of its angles. The inside of the
town is described as filthily dirty, and the houses are of the poorest
description.
It is so called from the soil being mixed with pebbles, differing from the
Sistan soil in general. It is an ancient town, and probably existed in the
time of Cyrus; but it presents written marks of decay and none of recent
improvements ; except the canal on the north-west side flowing towards
Bairamabad, which must have originated subsequent to the bunding of the
Helm and. The inhabitants are Sistani, but the governor is of Baluch ex
traction, bearing allegiance to the Chief of Burj-i-Alam Khan.— (Goldmid,
Euan-Smith, Rozario .)
DASHT-T- ARMtJT ALT—L at. 37° 15' 0" to Lat. 37° 25' 0", Long.
56° it)' 0" to Long. 56° 50' 0" ; Elev. 3,000 ' [ Napier ).
A watershed in Kurdish Khurasan, some 3,000 feet high, which divides the
Kal Mura system from that of the Gurgan. It is lowlying and barren,
but capable of cultivation.— [Napier, MacGregor.)
PASHT-I-BIAZ—Lat. 34° 1' 30", Long. 58° 46' 20" ; Elev. 5,200
(5,420 (?) ').
An important village in Khurasan, on the road between Kain and Kakli,
16 miles from the latter town. It is so called from being a salubrious
spot, enjoying immunity from epidemics, &c., and is said to have maintained
its wonted reputation so as to record only DO casualties out of its population
of 1,500. It is situated at the entrance of a wide glen at the north of the
Nimbuluk valley, and is surrounded by extensive gardens, amongst which
some magnificent plane trees are to be seen. Its chief products are opium,
silk, wheat, cotton, barley, and vegetables. The population consists of
Savvads, merchants, men of letters, and the natives. The latter form the
labouring and artisan class, and w T ear a sheepskin cap, conical in shape, like
those of the Turkmans. It contains some 300 houses and an old fort, and
has four kanats (one or which, built by the Gabos, is said never to run
dry), the remains of an ancient mosque, with ruins of other large buildings,
and a very old humam .— [GoUUmid, Beilew, Rozario.)
DASHT-I-GARD, or GIRD— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev.
A village in Khurasan, between 5 and 6 miles from Mashhad, on the
road to Sarakhs. 1 — [MacGregor.)
DASHT-I-GARD, or GIRD— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev.
A cluster of villages in Khurasan, on the road from Khur to Sabzawar, and
about 160 miles from the former town. Water and supplies are procur
able.— [MacGregor.)
DASHT-I-GARD, or GIRD— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 20 miles from Tabbas, on the road to Bfrjand. It has
a small fort, good water, and a few supplies. Its inhabitants are about 40
nomadic families.— [MacGregor.)
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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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- 1 volume (384 folios)
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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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