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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [138r] (280/722)
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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They afe a fine hardy race, of good physique, and for the most part well
armed. The country is covered with forest for the most part, but has
some open grass-covered plains and extensive seed beds. The Kara Su
rises in the mountains to the south and flows west to Katul. Cotton
is largely grown, and rice when there are facilities for irrigation.—
{Napier.)
KAUSHfD— -Lvt , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Daraghaz district of Khurasan.—
KAVlR—-
See “ Dasht-i-Kavfr.”
KAYANI—
A tribe of Sistan, the representatives of the ancient kings of Persia, and
the ruling race in Sfstan until the time of Nadir Shah. The last of the
Kayani chiefs, who exercised any influence or authority in Sfstan, was Malik
Suliman, the power of whose family had already been curtailed by Nadir’s
introducing the Sarbandfs, and settling them on the lands south of the
Hamun about Sikhuha. In the time of Malik Sulxman’s son and successor
Malik Barham, who died, it is said, in 18-19, the Kayani influence finally
waned. The tribe now hardly exceeds a hundred families in the country;
and these are scattered about in the different villages taken from them by
the Sarbandfs and Shahrikis on the death of Malik Barham. The sub
joined statement shows the villages held by the Kayanis in the time of
Malik Sulfman and their possessors in the present day, and serves to
illustrate what they have lost during the past century:
Tillages..
Houses.
Present possessors.
Jalalabad
500
Sarbandi and Dihkan.
Burj Afghan
100
Sarbandi Dihkan, and Afghan.
Bunjar
400
Sarbandi and Kayani.
Klntan
250
Sarbandi and Kayani.
Bolai
100
Sarbandi and Dilikau.
Bolai
100
Sarbandi and Dihkan.
Kashnabad
200
Sarbandi and Kalautari.
Iskil
100
Kalantari.
Zahidan
800
Sarbaudi and Dibkan.
Khadang
100
Dihkan and mixed tribes.
Boatibar
400
Dibkan and mixed tribes.
Kechgan
100
Sarbandf and mixed tribes.
Afzalabad
80
Mixed tribes and Sarbandf.
INash'a’oad (fort)
120
Kayani and Persians.
Nasirabad (town) ...
100
Sarbandf and Dibkan.
The Dihkdn in the above list are all Sarbandf subjects [rdyat) or tenants.
The Afghans in Burj Afghan are Tokhi Ghilzais, and only number some 20
families; they are subordinate to the Sarbandf, but are not subjects ; they
hold their lands in their own right. The Kalantari are a section of the
Dihkan subordinate to the Sarbandf. The Kayani are mostly collected
together in Nasfrabad (q. v.). The Kayani families in Bunjaf are reckoned
at less than 30, and there are individual families distributed amongst the
other villages in the above list.— [Bellevr)
KELA.—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, between Hasanabad and Saghabad, on the road
from Earfman to Nfshapur,— {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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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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