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'Report on Fars by Captain A T Wilson, Indian Political Department' [‎77v] (159/396)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (196 folios). It was created in 1916. 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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143
of that town. In 1888 Dashtistan was placed bv the Amin-us-SuItan under
Shaikh Nasir, but later was given to the Governor-General of Shiraz, and
administered by a sartip acting as his deputy. The political organisation
of Dashtistan is a patchwork of marvellous complexity. The bulk of the
district is under the Governor-General of Ears, but some of the southern
villages, including the group for which the Shaikh of Chahkutah is respon
sible, are, on occasions, subordinate to the Governor of the Gulf Ports. The
system of farming the revenues is responsible for further confusion, es
pecially as a certain degree of executive power is always conferred on the
‘farmer ’ along with the right to collect the taxes, and the more so in the
present case as the farmer of the greater part of Dashtistan is not infre
quently the Governor of the Gulf Ports, who leases it from the Governor-
General of Ears. Nor is the administration of the Governor commonlv
direct, whether he be actual or titular. Half or more of the villages to the
N. of Buraijan are held, as a tiul or fief, by the Nizam-us-Sultaneh.
Burazjan and its dependent villages, forming the greater part of the district,
are ruled by the Papari Khan of Burazjan, who also collects the revenues, a
privilege for which he pays 5,000 tumans annually ; he is properly answerable
to the Governor-General of Pars, to whose jurisdiction he nominally belongs,
but in consequence of the farm in favour of the Governor of the Gulf Ports'
to which we have alluded, the relations of the Shaikh are usually exclusively
with the Bushire Government. The Shaikh of Chahkutah, who is in execu
tive charge of that place and of several adjoining villages, is subject both
in theory and in practice to the Governor of the Gulf Ports. With the ex
ception of a Deputy Governor and a telegraph official at Burazjan, who looks
after the Persian Government’s telegraph to Bandar Rig and beyond, Dash-
tistan contains no salaried employ & of the Persian Government/
The lot of the subjects of the Khan of Burazjan is not a happy one ; thev
are rack rented and obliged to yield their master military service, when
ever he may require it, supplying their own arms and ammunition. The
subjects of the Shaikh of Chahkutah are probably little better off, and of
late years there has been a good deal of emigration from the district. The
nominal land-revenue averages 50 to 60 krdns per Gad, but the Khan of
Burazjan, at least endeavours to extort more. The total revenue of the
Dashtistan district is said to amount to 10,000 krdns, or Rs 2 500
S °1 vl ™ mlnal j usti< J e . and civil justice is syhonvmous with
the good offices of Mullas in arranging private disputes. Quarrels between
villages are either adjusted by Saiyids or else fought out to the bitter end
The antecedents and ition of the Kh - ns of Buriuj - n an(J Ch - hkat - h
are described in the articles on those places.
Topographhi/. The following are the villages of the Dashtistan district
Name.
Abu Tawil
Lat.
Long.
29 12
51
No.
of
houses.
30
Notes.
5 miles N. N. W. Chahkutah : popula
tion Damukh Arabs: tobacco is
grown ; village is under Chahkutah.
200 donkeys, 150 cattle, 600 sheep.
fSee als'i page 129.)

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This volume consists of a report on Fars (a province of Persia) was written by Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson, Deputy Civil Commissioner in the Indian Political Department (General Staff Branch), and was published in Simla at the Government Monotype Press. The volume is divided into subject sections.

Within the report, there are genealogical trees for some tribes and families, including: the Kashkuli Khans (folio 41), the Qashqai Ilkhanis (folio 42) and the Hashimieh family of Shiraz (folio 51).

Following the main report, there are two appendices: one relating to the approximate population of Fars and one relating to the mineral resources of Fars. The volume ends with an alphabetical index for the entire report and a map showing 'Routes in Persia'.

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1 volume (196 folios)
Arrangement

The volume opens with a contents page (folio 4). The report is then divided into subject sections (folios 5-301). Following the main report, there are two appendices (folios157-160) and an alphabetical index for the entire report (folios 161-194). The last folio is a map which is enclosed in a pocket at the back of the volume (folios 194-195). The contents and index pages use the report’s pagination system.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at a map, at the inside back cover, with 196; 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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