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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [307r] (620/722)
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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Persia lias the following postal and telegraphic communications :~
Caspian steamers from Astrakhan to Baku, Anzali, Mashhad-i-Sar, and
Gaz, weekly; but November to April, only monthly. From London to
Basht, 14 days, To Astarabad, 17 days. A post from Julfa ferry, Russian
frontier, near Titlis to Tabriz and Tihran and from Tihran to Rasht,
weekly, managed by Europeans. Weekly steamers from Basrah to Bom
bay,^ calling at Bushahr, Leriza, Lingah, Jask, Bandar Abbas, Mascat,
Gwadar, and Karachi :
Baghdad to Basrah ... ... ^ 5 days
Basrah to Bombay ... ... "*
Fortnightly steamers from Basrah to London every second Monday;
Bushahr, every second Wednesday; Abbas, every second' Friday. Arrive at
Karachi in a little over a week every second Tuesday; leave for Aden
every second Thursday; halt two days at Aden:
To Aden
• ••
...
... 17 days
To Hodeidah
• ••
... 21 „
To Jeddah
... 23 „
To Suez
... 26
To Port Said
...
... 28 „
To Algiers
• • •
...
... 36 „
To Lisbon (monthly)
... 40 „
To London
... 45 „
The steamers from London leave every second Thursday.*
The homeward voyage during June, July, August (monsoon), is two days
longer after Karachi.
The horse is the only means of conveyance for the traveller. The camel
„ is only used for riding in the desert, where the
horse would find no food. Otherwise the camel
is only used as a beast of bm den. Mules are also much used as beasts of
burden : they are very strong and enduring. If the traveller wishes to get
along quickly, he can make use of the post-horses on the roads mentioned
further on; but this mode of travelling will oblige him to leave all baggage
behind, save perhaps two light kurjfns, or saddle-bags.
The post-stations (chaparkhana) are situated at distances of 14 to
19 miles ; and the horses, generally wretched-looking nags, are accus
tomed to gallop the whole distance. A servant whom the postmaster
sends as attendant takes the horses back to their station ; and in this manner
the traveller can accomplish 95 miles per diem. The price per horse
and per favsakh amounts to 1 kran in Persia, and about the same in Turkey.
The horse of the attendant has also to be paid for. By joining a caravan
progress is slow. This is the cheapest mode of travelling; but the
traveller will generally prefer engaging a charvardar, and thus form his own
caravan.
Telegraphs.
The telegraphic communication of Persia may be classed under two
heads— (1) Indo-European; (2) Persian.
Indo-European Telegraph.
This line runs from Karachi along the south coast of Baluchistan and
up the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
to Fao, where it communicates with the Turkish
telegraphic system. This portion of the line is called the Gulf Section,
tf.JB .—These steamers do not call at Bombay.
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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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