'Report on the Preliminary Survey of The Route for The Central Persia Telegraph Line from Quetta to Bam and Pahra'

Content

A report by Mr H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department. Printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, 1901. The report is a survey of a potential route for extending a telegraph line from India to Persia, running from Quetta to Bam, with an alternative route going to Pahra. The volume contains a description of the routes taken, estimates of cost, and notes on alignment, marking out, location of offices, shelter huts for linestaff, maintenance, water, sand, supplies, climate, and the Quetta-Siestan [Sistan] trade route.

Throughout the report are black and white photographs of the route that accompany the descriptions (folios 26,28, 30, 32, 34, 37, 39, 41, 46, 49, 51, 52, 63, 67, 70, and 71). Folio 23 is a map showing the route taken. Enclosed at the front of the volume is a copy of the 'Convention between The United Kingdom and Persia extending the System of Telegraphic Communication between Europe and India Through Persia', 1902 (folios 2-6), and twelve loose sheets of manuscript notes on the report written by George Curzon (folios 7-18).

Extent and format

1 volume (77 folios)

It is grouped into

'Accompaniment to Report by Mr H A Armstrong on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier, 1901'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 1. Sandhills east of Yadgar'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 2. Sandhills west of Yadgar'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 3.'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 4. Water collected after rain in pat plains surrounded by Sandhills, west of Yadgar'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 5. View of Sandhills near trade route, west of Yadgar'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 6. View of Sandhills near trade route, west of Yadgar'

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'View on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 7. Panorama view of a sandbelt taken from the Quetta-Nushki-Siestan trade route, west of Chahsundan'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 8. View of Sandhill recently deposited on trade route about 1 1/2 miles south-south-east from Mushki Chah'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 9. View of Sandhill recently deposited on an old camel track west of Chahsundan'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 10. Yadgar Thana'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 11. Dalbandin Thana'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 12. Rest house at Jujaki'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 13. Mirui Thana'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 14. Chahsundan Thana'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 15. Mushki Chah Thana'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 16. Rest house at Ware Chah'

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'View on the Kerman Desert: No. 17. The Mil-i-Nadir, or Pillar of Nadir'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 18. View of desert west of Padag'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 19. View west of Karodak'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 20. View near Koh-i-Malik Gatt west of Mirui'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 21. View west of Chahsundan'

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'No. 22. View taken from about 3 miles south-east of Koh-i-Dalil, near the Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] trade route, west of Mushki Chah'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 23. Pat plains amongst Sandhills after heavy rain'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 24. Pat plains amongst Sandhills after heavy rain'

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'Views on Quetta-Nushki-Siestan [Sistan] Trade Route: No. 25. Pat plains amongst Sandhills after heavy rain'

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'No. 26. Agha Walli Khan, Governor of Bam'

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'No. 27. South Entrance to Bam Fort, Persian soldiers in foreground'

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'No. 28. Mirza Abdur Rahim Khan, Wazir of Kerman, having a smoke outside his tent at Pahra'

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'No. 29. Band of the Wazir of Kerman'

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'No. 30. Sub-Inspector Ainuddin Khan, Indian Telegraph Department'

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Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 79; 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.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Mss Eur F111/377

History of this record

Date(s)

1901 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Telegraph linesReports

Places

PersiaQuetta

People & organisations

Indo-European Telegraph Department, Assistant Superintendent

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