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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [324r] (654/722)
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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by the great snowclad mountains of Sujakhel and Bakbarz. To the north
east the plain is said to be continuous with the Marv desert.— {Bellew,
Napier.)
SARK-AN—Lat. tT 7' 0", Long. 58° 29' 0"; Elev.
A large village in Khurasan, 7 miles from Kuchan and | a mile north of
the road to Mashhad. It contains 80 to 100 houses.— {Napier.)
SARMAJKAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, 2 miles south of Mashhad.— {MacGregor.)
SARMAZDIH —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 11 miles from Sultanabad (Turshfz), on the road to
Shahrud.—( Tag lor.)
SARMLNDASHT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Mahawalat subdivision of the Turbat-i-Haidan district of
Khurasan.— {Bclleiv.)
SARPtJSlllDA* —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, 8 miles from Zafarani, on the road to Sabzawar
from Mashhad. The sandy soil is here cut, scooped, and honeycombed by
the wind in a manner similar to that to be seen in some parts of Sistan.
There is a good caravansarai here.— {Bellew, Goldsmid.)
SARSHfiLA— Lat. , Long.^ ^ ; Elev.
A wide, deep gully bounding the Sistan province on the west. The whole
south-west border is traversed by it from north to south. It drains the over-
how of the Hamun to the Zawah depression or hollow. Between the
Helmand and the Sarshela in the west is the wide plain of Sistan. The
Sarshela encamping-ground is 42 miles south-west of Sihkuha on the road
to Karman.-— {Bellew, Lumsden.)
SARUK—
Stewart savs that, besides the Chahar Aimak nomads, there are nomads in the
Herat province, who are not considered Aimaks. First, the Saruk Turkumans
of Panjdih. They are settled on the Murghab about a group of villages
known as Panjdih, and along the course of the Murghab to the Afghan
frontier ; but there is a more or less uninhabited space between the independ
ent Saruk settled at Yulatan and the Panjdih Saruk, who are Afghan
subjects. The Saruk of Yulatan have thrown in their lot more or less with
the Tekke Turkumans; but the Panjdih Saruk are not friendly with the
Tekke, and having been driven out by them from their lands lower
down the Murghab, they have settled in Afghan territory, and acknowledge
themselves to°be Afghan subjects. They cultivate the lands and graze
their flocks up the course of the Murghab as far as Maruchak. They
do pay something to the Afghan governors of Herat; but the amount to be
exacted very much depends on the state of Afghanistan. The Panjdih
Saruk have always acknowledged that they occupy Afghan land and
are liable to pay revenue. The governors of Herat may at times have been
too weak to exact it ; but while Abdul Kudus Khan was governor, he sent a
man, with a few horsemen, to Panjdih to be governor of the Afghan
Saruk country ; and this was done at the request of the Saruk. .
Napier says of them they were once a powerful tribe, numbering
15,000 tents, and holding possession of both b arakhs and Mary. Their
* The “ Hidden Head.”
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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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