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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎54v] (113/652)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (322 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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100
BIN—BIN
houses of the village. The irrigation is carried on by a canal, but the
arrangements for the distribution of the water are so bad, that some crops
wither while others drown. The stream is led into four fields, making a
total of about 6 acres daily, and the land holders—all great men—take
. their turn according to their rank, and not according to their acreage.
; The manufactures of Bint area coarse white cloth made from cotton
grown in the country; leather articles, as shoes, belts, and bullet pouches,
water bottles from the porous blue clay of the Gidich; gauzy handker
chiefs for women, badly dyed red and green, and embroidered with floss
silk brought from Masqat; also elaborately embroidered skull caps. The
■ last named are the only articles for which there is any demand outside
the district.
There is no regular trade. After an unusually good year, sheep and
gki are sometimes sent to Masqat and Bandar Abbas in exchange for floss
silk and piece-goods. The money current consists of dollars, rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , krdns,
half-/cmws, and floss silk.
Camels are plentiful, larger than coast camels, but not proportionately
■ more enduring, owing to their more succulent food. Donkeys are few
: and dear, imported from ’Oman ; sheep poor ; cows few. There was
only one horse at Bint in 1876.
Religion is of great importance here, as in other towns of this region,
but among the nomadic part of the population it is entirely absent. The
mullas of Bint represent themelves as Sunni of the sect of Abu Hanif a, while
they are really unadulterated Sufis. There is a good masjid and a school
attended—in 1876—by twelve youths who paid 10 dollars for being taught
the Koran or Hafiz. These young men appear to retain little of their
religion after arriving at a marriageable age.
Floyer remarks (in 1876) that the main subjects of conversation at Bint
as elsewhere in Persian Baluchistan, were the tyranny of the “ Gajars ”
(Persians) and the intense desire of the Baluchis that the English should
take their country—an event they confidently expected to take place
shortly.
Its mdlidt in 1893 was estimated at 1,000 tumdns ; while the revenue of
the three districts of Geh, Bint and Dasht amounted to Rs. 40,000 in 1902.
The Bint or Fanuch river is one of considerable -importance in Makran.
It has its source in five separate streams,* rising in the hills north of
Fanuch where the watershed divides the drainage of the Bampur river
from that flowing south to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Below Fanuch it passes
through the famous gorge of that name, and being joined by the Gari and
the Maluran rivers, runs approximately south for some 20 miles, when the
Pasga river and other minor tributaries unite with it. Towards its
southerly end, it appears to be called the Rapch river; this was brought
* These are counting from the west—
(a) The main stream, on which lies Mirabad.
{b) Kaur-i-Kantakan. i
(c) Kam Kaur with Kam just above Fanuch.
(d) Kaur-i-Magin, with Magin and Band-i-Bangi.
(e) Kaur Isfld, joining in below Fanuch, with Isfid, some 6 miles up it.

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The item is Volume IV of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of Persia south and east of the Bandar Abbas-Kirman-Birjand to Gazik line, with the exception of Sistan, 'which is dealt with in the Military Report on Persian Sistan'. It also includes the islands of Qishm, Hormuz, Hanjam, Larak etc. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the whole district of Shamil.

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 323.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 313-321).

Prepared by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (322 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 324; 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 an original printed pagination sequence.

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