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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [327v] (661/722)
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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deposed. Mir Beg did not prove a popular ruler, and was killed in a faction
fight with the Balucli at Itiidbar after four years" government at Sistan.
After this Taimur restored the government of the country to the Kaiani
family, in the person of Malik Bahram, son of Suliman. But the feud
between the Shahriki and Kaiani continued ; and Mir Beg"s son and
successor, Mir Hashim, was an active enemy of the Kaiani. He took
Wasilan from Bahram, and after his death twice expelled his son Jalal-ud-
din from the country. Though he was reinstated by Kamran, yet the
Shahriki were always loyal adherents to the cause of Mahmud and Kamran,
and in their political leanings always depended for support upon Herat.—
(Bellew.)
SHAHR-I-NA U *— L at. 35° 8' 25 // , Long. 59° 56' 30"; Elev. ' {St.
John).
A village in the Bakharz plain, 80 miles south of Mashhad, on one of the
roads to Herat. It has been a large place, probably of not less than
1,000 houses; but now, though its large fortiiied enclosures look very
imposing from the outside, there are not more than 100 houses
occupied. There is, however, a good deal of cultivation, plenty of good
water, and very ntimerous gardens for so small a population. Napier gives
this as 1,500 families and tents, of which 200 are Hazaras; the rest are Karai
Heratis, and a local tribe known as Bakharzis. All are armed, and could
furnish 2,000 matchlockmen. Two hundred horses are kept ready for border
defence.—( M ac Gregor.)
SHAHB-I-N0N— Lat. _ , Long. ; Elev. ^
A town in Khurasan, situated 20 miles from Mahmudabad. It is inhab
ited by 2,000 families of Hazaras, who have recently emigrated from
Herat to Persia. These Hazaras are encamped at the foot of the mountains,
where there is good pasturage; and here they breed and graze a considerable
number of excellent horses, with some of which they pay their contributions
to the government. Shahr-i-Nun is taxed at the rate of fifty horses every
year. Some of these horses fetch from 160 to 200 tumans (£55 to £65);
and none are accepted under the value of 25 tumans. These Hazaras are
also obliged to arm, equip, and have in readiness 1,000 cavalry.— {Perrier.)
SHAHRISTAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Sistan.— {Bellew.)
SHAHR ISTANAK —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the Jagatai mountains, Khurasan, about 1 5 miles east of Jagatai.
It suffered severely from the famine of 1870-72, which left only 20 or 30
families out of some 3,000.— {Napier.)
SHAHR NUGHAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Gunabad subdivision of the Tabas district of Khurasan.—
{MacGregor.)
SHAHRtH— Lat. 36° 25' 13", Long. 51° 58' 30"; Elev. 4,319' {lemm).
A town in the Bustan district of Khurasan, 205 miles east of Tihran,
258 miles west of Mashhad, 43 miles south-south-east of Astarabad. It
is a walled town, with 1,200 residences and storehouses and 300 shops.
The houses from want of wood are built of unburnt brick, and covered with
a flat arch of the same materials. The surrounding country is populous
and well cultivated, and a fine stream, the Rud-i-Shah, comes from the
* The “ New Town.”
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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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