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BADRO—
A village, 3 farsaJchs north-west ot Sarbisheh containing 30 people.
It produces 300 Indian maunds of grain ; 100 sheep, 10 donkeys, 5 cattle.
Water from a kdrlz.—(Abbas All, 1907.)
BAFTAN or BAFATAN—
A village in Persian Baluchistan, apparently in the Pishln district, which
is itself a sub-division of Sarbaz. It is situated in the plain on the left bank
of the Sarbaz river, about 1 mile south of where that stream emerges from
the hills. Pishin is 25 miles east-south-east. Rask village, on the
Sarbaz, within the hills, is 5 miles distant; FIruzabad is 10 or 11 miles;
Parud is 19 miles. To Qasrqand, westwards along the plain, is about
50 miles. That road has not yet been explored, but the country is open
and easy the whole way. r
Baftan is somewhat to the right of the road from Sarbaz, Parud, etc.,
to Pishin vzd BhganI (q.v.). On the opposite side and close to the road
are the remains of the old fort and village taken and destroyed by the
Persians about 1853. Sir F. Goldsmid’s Mission (1871) heard from a
Persian official accompanying them, and who was present on the occasion,
that they brought 5,000 men and 10 guns against the place—a statement
which Goldsmid characterises as “an unquestionable fiction.” The
garrison was only 100 men and the assailants lost 2 killed and 10
wounded in the attack.
Haji Abdul Nabi visited Baft an in 1839 and said it was very scantily
cultivated. It was then “ under a son of Mi Taj Muhammad,” by whom,
he means, perhaps, Mir Jan Muhammad, of Rask.
The present Baftan is in a dense grove of date trees. Barley, rice, beans,
etc., appear to be procurable in moderate quantities.—(#a« 'Abdul Nabi ’
Evan-Smith.)
BAGABAND, vide Baga-i-Band.
BAGA-I-BAND or BAGRBAND— Elev. about 4.000 / .
A range of hills in Makran lying between the Kaju and Sarbaz rivers,
and running east and west, about 80 miles from the coast. Rising to an
altitude of about 4,000 feet, it forms the northern boundary of the Bahu
Dasutia i districts, and is crossed by several passes, leading from the coast
to the interior, of which the Baichand Pass (3,820 feet) is perhaps the
most important.— (Janes, 1900.)
BAGH AGHAI—
A hamlet in Kirman, situated on the Hanza river, about 15 miles from
Rabur, on the road to Rayln.—(&/&es, 1900.)
BAGHAI—
A village in Rudbar (q.v.) in Kirman.
BAGH DAK—
A village on the Tehrud (q.v.) in Kirman.