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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎379v] (763/988)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. 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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999
TAN—TAN
TANGISTAN District—
This district of the Persian coast of Pars is somewhat irregular in shape.
Its maximum length from north to south is about 40 miles ; and the north
ern half has a breadth inland of about 20 miles ; but the southern half is
merely a narrow strip upon the coast. It includes localities formerly
separate entities^ such as Samal and Ahram, and the Khaviz valley. The
last named is the only portion in the mountains ; and outside the coast
plain.
History.
At the time of the British war of 1856, when the Tangistams put up a
brief resistance, their district was in the undivided control of Baghir Khan.
For much longer, however, they had been notorious for their inroads into
Bushire. After Baghir Khan’s death the district got gradually out of the
control of its own chiefs. For a time the famous Muhammad Khan of
Dashti ruled it, subsequently Hasan Khan, son of Baghir Khan. Haidar
Khan, a nephew of the above, w T as kept a prisoner at Shiraz for many
years previous to 1890. After his return he and his cousin ’Ali Khan
ruled alternately, but weakly and badly: and several kadkhudds made
themselves practically independent, including a certain kadkhudd of Baghak,
Haji Muhammad ’Ali. Mdlidt was not paid, and the Khans, in bad odour
with the people, were finally driven out through the Daria Begi’s champion
ship of Zair Khidar, son of the above-named kadkhudd of Baghak. This
man originally agreed to act as Kaldntar of the district under the Khans,
and got together the ; but finally dispossessed the Khans. Fiom
1905 onwards Zair Khidar and the various kadkhudds remained each
supreme in his own village or surroundings, the 'most notable being Hasan
Bakshu in Ambarak, Ghulam Husain Haji Khidar in Shuraki, Rais ’Ali in
Dilvar. The Khaviz valley and Ahram were farmed by Zair Khidar, who
amassed money, but was very lenient.
In 1911 Niz rm-us-Sultaneh rejected Zair Khidar’s overtures, having with
him in his suite some of the younger Tangistani Khans. Zair Khidar
was attacked by a force of the Nizam, beaten back to the hills, and his
village Shamshiri destroyed. Sharp fighting ensued, in which some of the
kadkhudds like Hasan Bakshu, took the part of the Khans. Baghir Khan,
Bahadur-us-Sultaneh was killed, but old Haidar Khan went back to Ahram
with the other Khans on Nizam-us-Sultaneh’s behalf. They remained
in power as long as Nizam was Governor-General, but in October Zair
Khidar attacked them in the fort of Qalat, and, as their supporters melted
away, they were forced to fly the district. Muvaqqar-ud-Dauleh, the new
Governor, put Zair Khidar in charge of all Tangistan, in 1912. The other
kadkhudds are by no means subordinate to Zair Khidar, though Zair Khidar
can raise the most men. Rais ’Ali of Dilvar has become rich, and there
fore of some importance, through successfill smuggling.
In October 1911 the crew of a Tangistan boat committed a piracy near
Dibai. The Tangistanis refused to hand over the culprits, or afford repar
ation, and the Persian Government failed to compel them to do so. Ac
cordingly, in June 1913, a couple of His Majesty’s ships blockaded the
fangistan coast, and confiscated the boats belonging to the villages im
plicated. In these operations one seaman was killed and five wounded.

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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.

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 includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.

The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).

Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.

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1 volume (490 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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