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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎149r] (302/739)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. 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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243
No. 134.
M ashad to D aragaz, via Gunaha Chapishlu.
Authority — N apiebj "P ioneer ," 1885 (J uly).
No.
B ibtakcbs
IN MILES.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
B bmabks.
1
K asimabad
12
• ••
Leave Mashad by the Bala Khiaban gate and
follow the main road up the valley, north-west.
At 5 miles pass ruined robat and fort of Bahra-
bad. At 12 miles walled village of Kasimabad,
15 houses. Supplies plentiful. Eoad level and
good.
2
N
G unabad
26
North-west following main road. At 7 miles,
Kala Askania, right; at 9 miles, Kala Ishan-
kalah, left; Kala Sada Khan, right. At 11
miles, Kala Vakil Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator. Khan, right. At 12f miles,
country cut up by ravines, draining into tha
Kashaf Rud; roadway remains good and passable
for wheels. Road heavy in parts from recent
rain, but good all along. Gunabad, large village of
100 houses. Supplies ample. Connects with
Route No. 132.
3
C hinauan
12
38
North-west, through, gardens for 1 mile. At 2
miles, Kala Ibrahimabad, right. At 3^ miles,
Kala Sulogird, half mile, left ; 4J miles, Kala
Nao Bohur, right; 7 miles, village and gardens,
Shafiabad ; 8 miles. Ha jiabad. At 9|- miles cross
small stream flowing north to Dastgird. At 10£
miles cross dry bed of stream from the hills south.
High steep banks with ramp passable for wheel.
Road sound and firm the whole way, and for the
most part gravel and kankar. Country level and
unbroken. Chinaran, large walled village, 40
bouses. Zafranlu Kurds.
4
E adkan
14
52
North-west across cultivated plain for 1 mile-
Direct road to Kuclian, branches off left. Plain
uncultivated and undulating to Jaukar. At 8
miles after clearing the following villages of
Chinaran (Jaukar, 2^ miles; Kalat-i-Amjan. 2^
miles ; Kalat-i-Arab. 3J miles ; Deh Sunundar,
ruined village, 5J miles ; Deh Mazanli, Deh Sar-
i-zah, Gul-i-Khatun, 7 miles ; Deh Mati, 8 miles),
the road passes over wide level' pasture land. A.
marshy stream from the head of the valley i»
passed by a good ford. At 11J miles the Mili-
Radkan, a fine masonry tower, 95 feet high, with
Cufic inscription, is passed. Radkan is a large
village of 1,000 houses of Kiwanlu Kurds, de
fended by double mud walls, towers, and ditch.
Between Ohinaran and Radkan there is a con
siderable extent of meadow country, such as if

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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).

The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].

The information given for each route comprises:

  • number of route;
  • place names forming starting point and destination of route;
  • authority and date;
  • number of stage;
  • names of stages;
  • distance in miles (intermediate and total);
  • remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).

An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.

The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.

An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.

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1 volume (367 folios)
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The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); 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 volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.

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