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Afghans have so far laid no claim on it), is that at Asperan (As-i-Parian).
The ruins at this place testify to its having been at one time a big village, but
no one has been able to afford any clue as to when and why it was abandoned.
It has almost certainly not been inhabited since Nadir Shah’s time.
There is one Karez at present open at Asperan. The cultivator is one
Ali, a man of Afghan extraction, who formerly lived in Duroh (not a Saruni).
He came to Asperan some seven years ago. The produce of the Karez is
about 30 Tabriz Kharwars of grain. Ali has persistently refused to pny
revenue to the Naib of Duroh.
When M. Miller was Russian Consul in Seistan, he made endeavours to
purchase^Asperan (through Passand Khan, Baluch,) from the Naib of Duroh,
who claimed it as his property. The Khwaja had at that time been
temporarily deprived of the Naibsbip and, owing to that or some other
cause, the negotiations came to nothing. Ali always visits the Kussian as well
as the British Consulate when he comes to Seistan.
There is little doubt that Asperan has always been a part of the
Duroh DCtrict.
As regards grazing rights, the information given by Captain Keyes
in his note of 1st May HOG has been generally corroborated by my informants.
Where rights are undefined however, as they are in the present" case, exact
agreement in details cannot be expected.
According to the Naib of Duroh, the old political frontier was the
Harut Rud, but the Afghan maldars had prescriptive grazing rights beyond
this to the west. At the present day, the Naib informed me, Afghan maldars
graze up to the following points : —
Surtigh; Hangar and Haftad Bud (Lahno), Chah Sagak ; Chah Surkh •
Khargas Ab. Chah Shur.
The whole of this country is also grazed over by the Seistan maldars,
so the Afghan flock-owners rights are by no means exclusive.
The Naib denied that any grazing tax (Sargalla or Kah charai) is taken
by Afghans, though a tax amounting to 1 sheep per flock, and Krans 2 to
Krans 4 per flock (rama) is exacted from them on their passage from Seistan
through Afghan territory to reach their grazing grounds. According to the
same authority, the N'aibs of Duroh in former days levied a grazins: tax on
Afghan maldars west of the Ilarut Bud.
,, An ol 1 who I think may be considered unbiassed, told me that
the Atash Khana range was the recognised frontier of Duroh. As regards
grazing taxe>, he corroborated the Naib’s statement as given above.
v • N °£ th 1 the . K °h-i-Atash Khana, Chah Khargosh is recognised to
Frontier* line. ll,MtS ’ 1)3111113111 aud lhe ^ak-i-Tundi are on the
The Kiabat of Julga Sunni Khana.
Tire Persian title to the frontier district of Julga Sunni Khana is based
on the mhtof conquest The history of how this Khanate became an integral
part of the Chiefship of Kain. thus giving to Persia her present frontier
is somewhat Obscure ; and till the numerous farmans, sanads and other docu-
meuts winch are in the possession of the old families of the Kainat come to
be examined it can be very imperfectly known. The following is a brief
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settled in Khorasan about the time of the Caliph Haroun-ubRaschW The
local tradition is that the first rulers of this tribe were +i, 1 . 0 ' T e
Muhammad (Mir Gooch), Mir Mahmud and Mir Hussein who sertledln toe
Kuh-i-iiaran. In the days of Mamun, the Caliph’s son?Klfn ^ governed
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