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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [145v] (295/722)
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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Tun and Tabas, names of two districts whose chief towns are of the same name—
Arab-i-Reiguni ... 7,000 houses and tents ... Language, Persian.
Kaln district and town—
Arab
Nekhi
12,000 houses and tents
Number not known
j Language, Persian.
Sarhaddat, meaning the tribes on the frontiers of Mashhad—
Taimuri
Mardi
Muzdurani ...
Chula!
Turkla Jelayu ...
Laks and others
Turkia Janishlu
Lak and other tribes
Bayat and Khurshah!
Miscellaneous .,.
Kelijex
Zafaranlii
Kivanlu
Amanlu
2,000 tents and houses
700 houses
130 houses
2,000 houses and tents
1,500 houses
1.500 houses and tents.
3,000 tents and houses
2.500 tents and houses.
10,000 houses
1,000 houses
2,000 houses
14,000 houses and tents
2,000 houses and tents
1.500 houses and tents
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Live at Kazghun.
Turks are dispersed in
various places.
Language, Persian; live
at Peri
Bast
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
, 20 miles
from Mashhad.
Turks.
Turks ; live at Kalat-i-
Nadir!.
Laks.
Turks ; they live at N!-
shapur.
Live in Sabzawar; lan
guage, Turkish.
Turks; in the district of
J uvam.
Laks; live at Kuchan.
Laks ; live at Bujnurd.
Laks ; live at Mardashk.
A well-informed
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
states that a vivid recollection of the old Herat
Mission still prevails in Herat and IChurasan; and although very sensi
ble of Russian power, the people and their chiefs would be in the main
ready to receive us on the faith of past goodwill and benefits conferred.
Southward from Sistan to the coast, the country is little known, but
probably thinly peopled with robber tribes of Baluch blood. The im
probability of any operations taking place in this district renders further
detail unnecessary.
The inner rind of Khurasan, which has in fact no centre, is inhabited
chiefly by Persian tribes. In the districts of Karman and Yazd the Arab
element begins to appear, while the whole south and east is chiefly of
Arab blood.
Khurasan has within itself every variety of climate; but all those districts
which border upon the desert, that stretches from Irak to Sfstan, are arid and
subject to extreme heats; and in some parts the inhabitants are, during a few
weeks in summer, compelled to avoid exposure, lest they should be destroyed
by pestilential winds, or buried in the clouds of sand, with which they are
often accompanied. But, notwithstanding this partial evil, Khurasan may
be said to possess a fine and salubrious climate.
The soil of the various districts is very varied in its quality and character.
The north-west, north, and north-east districts enjoy a very rich soil, and,
being abundantly irrigated, are all extremely productive of corn. Mashhad,
too, is in a rich and well-watered plain; Daraghaz and Kuchan are said to
be so fruitful, that dry gram yields a hundred and rice four hundred fold;
Turshiz is mostly wild and uncultivated, except near the town itself;
Turbat again is fruitful; and Nfshapur is situated in one of the richest and
best irrigated plains in Persia.
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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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