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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [213r] (430/652)
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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thrift}' and careful. The language of the district is a local patois com
pounded of Persian, Arabic and Baluchi, Persian words predominating.
But few arms are carried or owned in Minab, though the district was
‘until lately upon a highroad of the rifle-trade with Afghanistan and
Baluchistan.
The staple industry is the cultivation of dates, but wheat and barley,
i. Agriculture and Trade. besides henna, vegetables and fruits such as
. . citrons, limes, lemons, oranges, mangoes and
plantains, are grown in considerable quantities. The chief facts about trade
are gi/en in the article on Minab town, which is the only trade-centre in
the aistrict; here it may be added that an illicit trade with Afghanistan
and Baluchistan in imported rifles which formerly flourished here has now
been all but suppressed by the reformed Customs administration.
Communication and trans- The principal routes in the district are four,
P orti - as follows :—
(1) A portion of the coast-route between Minab and Bandar Abbas !
this is the continuation of Route No. 1 of the paragraph on com
munications in the article on the Shamil district, and no further
remarks are necessary here, except that the two stages within the
Minab distiict are Dudau at 14 miles from Minab town and
16 from Q ulughan in the Shamil district.
(2) A small portion of the route between Minab town and Shamil
village lies in the Minab district; vide Route No. 4 in the
paragraph and article already cited. It will be seen, on refer
ence to Route No. 5 in the same place, that travellers proceed
ing from Minab town to Bam or Kirman might go by Shamil
village, joining the Bandar Abbas-Kirman route at Tang-i-
Zindan.
(3) There is a route over the hills from Minab town by the Gardaneh
Asiai and Murad Kushteh passes to Manujan, whence, as ex
plained under Route No. 4 in the passage cited above, ways lie to
Sistan and Khorasan.
(4) The route to Jashk runs from Minab town to Kalavi (26 miles)
by Kokogaz, Hazarmani, Kahatak Majbun and Dahi Qand ; there
is also a route a few miles shorter by Hazarmani, Ju Mahalleh and
Dahi Qand.
The continuation beyond Kalavi is given in the paragraph on communi
cations in the article on the Biaban district.
The above routes are no better than those of South-Eastern Persia gen
erally ; but in dry weather they are free from difficulty for mounted men
and pack animals at least until they enter the hilly country.
A rough estimate of the land transport owned in the Minab district
shows about 1,000 camels, and 1,000 donkeys. As wall appear from the
village-list at the end of this article, the number of boats belonging to the
coast villages is inconsiderable.
The district is ruled by an official who has his seat at Minab town
Administration. j? 6 .. a ^' P resen t a nominee of the Mu’in-ut-
, , T’Mjar of Tehran wdio holds the district in farm
from the Persian Central Government. Minab, however, is subject in some
61 I. B
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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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