'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country'
Mss Eur F111/386
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The record is made up of 1 volume (147 folios). It was created in 1904. 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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A report, marked as secret, on the area of Nushki, Chagai, and Western Sinjarani. The report was compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department. The report was commenced in 1897 by Captain R E Roome, 6th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob's Horse), and revised and completed by Major W C Walton, 104th Wellesley's Rifles, Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General in 1903. It was printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, in 1904.
The report includes a preface by Colonel John E Nixon, Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch (folio 5) and a glossary of vernacular terms used (folio 6). The main body of the report contains chapters on geography, communications, fortified posts and forts, climate, sanitation, resources, ethnography, history, administration, and military strength.
The second part of the report includes a gazetteer of topographical and ethnographic information (folios 36-127) and appendices covering wells, canals, and meteorology, and including a report on the signalling stations of the Dalbandin-Robat line, with sketches (folios 131-147).
The volume includes the following maps:
- Map of Southern Baluchistan (folio 2)
- Sketch Map of Signalling Line from Dalbandin to Robat (folio 148)
- Map of Persian Seistan [Sistan] Cultivated Area (folio 149).
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- 1 volume (147 folios)
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- 2 imagesRef: Mss Eur F111/386, f 22 imagesRef: Mss Eur F111/386, f 1482 imagesRef: Mss Eur F111/386, f 149
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The volume includes a table of contents (folios 5-6) with reference to the original pagination.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 149; 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.
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- English in Latin script
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- 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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- Mss Eur F111/386
- Date(s)
- 1904 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Baluchistan
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- Indian Army, Quartermaster-General's Branch
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- Mss Eur F111/386
- Title
- 'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 3r:146v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- Mss Eur F111/386, f 2
- Title
- 'Map of Southern Baluchistan'
- Pages
- 2r:2v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- Mss Eur F111/386, f 148
- Title
- 'Sketch Map of Signalling Line from Dalbandin to Robat'
- Pages
- 148r:148v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- Mss Eur F111/386, f 149
- Title
- 'Persian Seistan - Cultivated Area'
- Pages
- 149r:149v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence