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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎192r] (388/652)

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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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LARD-I-AHMADl—
A pass on the Bandar Abbas-Sirjan road, about 8 miles from Ahmadl.
The pass, which is 3| miles in length and about £ mile wide, is bound
ed by steep sandstone cliffs, from 300 to 400 feet in height. It gradually
widens into a great saucer-like valley, into which the watershed in the wide
plain to the west pours its drainage through another short and very wide
valley. The drainage here divides into two, the main drainage running down
almost due east, in the direction of the Kuh-i-Ahmadi ; the other overflow
channel running south, through the Lard-i-Ahmadi, and ultimately pour
ing its water into the Zindan, which drains an enormous area of mountain
and plateau.— {Ryan, 1905.)
LARKH-I-ZARD—
A spring situated on the Duruh-Fareh road, about 6 miles west of
Chah-i-Sagak. The water is sweet, but scanty and dirty; some cultivation.
-—{Fazal Rahman, 1905 ; Abbas All, 1907.)
LASHAR—
A district in Persian Baluchistan, south of the Bampur plain. It is
understood to be a sub-division of Bampur, but is under its own chief.
To the north-west is Maskhutan, also believed to be a sub-division of Bam
pur ; to the westisFanuch ; to the south is the large district of Geh ; to
the east is the small district of Champ.
Lashar is of no great size. It may be 40 miles long by 20 wide. A
part of it is open country, adjacent to the sand desert which separates it
from Bampur proper, but south of that is the range of the Lashar Kuh
and other hills. However, we know very little about it.
Pip {q.v.) is the principal place. It is a large village with a fort, and is
the residence of the chief. Isfakeh {q.v.) is also a large village. Gurdur
and Ughin are small villages. All these are on the road from Bampur to
Geh and Chahbar, which has only once been traversed by a British officer—
Captain Grant—in 1809. His report is unfortunately very meagre, and is
besides out of date.
The general characteristics of the country probably resemble those
of Maskhutan and Fanuch immediately to the west. The people are call
ed Lasharis, but there are also Hots and other Baluch tribes
LASHAR KUH—
A range of hills forming a part of the southern boundary of the great
plain of Bampur, in Persian Baluchistan. In the absence of any definite
information it is only possible to hazard a conjecture that they are a con
tinuation of Floyer’s Band-i-Nilag running north-east or east-north-east,
until they meet Ahuran and the other ranges dividing Bampur from the
more elevated country of Sarbaz.
The north-eastern end of the Lashar hills is said to form the scarp plateau
of Champ, but further south there is no reason to suppose that the
country on the Geh side of the hills is more elevated than that on the
Bampur side. In fact it is highly probable that its general characteristics
resemble that of the tracts to west through which the Aiminx river flows.

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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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