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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [40r] (84/820)
The record is made up of 1 volume (396 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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of S’ham'khal. Tlie latter is about 4 miles from Russian Bajglran and about
a mile only from the village of Shamkhal. The mihman khdneh is a huge
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
built by order of the Shah as a frontier post, but left unfinished
and ungarrisoned. It contains good rooms for travellers. The Persian
custom-house is located in it. The village beyond the mihmdn ichaneh near
the frontier consists of a few huts in a hollow in the hills, on either side
of the road, and a row of small shops and rooms for travellers. In Persian
Bajgiran there is no garrison, and no official of any sort. The passport
officer is simply the servant of the man who farms the right of selling
passports, and the customs officer the same, but nobody seems to disturb
the peace. The height of the village, according to Colonel Yate’s aneroid,
is about 5,500 feet.^—lC. E. Yute, 1894.)
BAJISTAN—
Bee Bijistan.
BAJUAR—
A village in Khorasan on the road from Tabas to Nishapur. It is 16|
miles north of Badrashkand. It affords plenty of supplies and good
water .—(MacGregor ; Gill.)
BAKHARZ (No, 1)—
A district in North-Eastern Khorasan, comprising the tract lying between
the Jam, Khaf, and Turbat-i-Haidari districts.
The district is divided into three divisions, or buluks, viz., Bala Vilaiat
Mian Vilaiat and Pain Vilaiat. The population is estimated at 20,000
souls, the majority of which in the Bala and Mian Vilaiats are Persians,
known as Bakharzis; in the Pain Vilaiat the majority of the inhabitants
are Tajiks froiti near Herat: these last are Sunnis and undistinguishable
from Afghans in appearance. In this estimate are included 200 families
of Timuris (nomad), 100 families of Bahluxis of Kain, 100 families
of Baluchis, and 1,500 families of HaZaras.
The Shaukat-ud-Dauleh, chief of the Timuris, and the Shuja’-ul-Mulk,
Chief of the Hazaras, are the chief men of the district. The former was
Governor, but the latter has now succeeded him.
The following is a list of the principal villages of the district:—
(a)—B ala Vilatat.
r Mirza Ibrahim Khan Sarhang.
Headmen — 2 Aqa Muhammad Sultan.
Allah Yar Khan Sartip.
Villages.
(1) Shahr-i-Nau,
(2) Arzaneh.
(3) Kurdian.
(4) Arghi.
(5) Jizabad.
(6) Kafsh.
(7) Robat.
(8) Dashtab.
(9) Abnai.
(10) Kaleh Nau.
(11) Saida bad.
(12) Sultanabad.
(13) Turnabad.
(14) Naubahar.
(15) Kaleh-i-Nau-i-Shamlu.
(16) Himmatabad.
I St
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The item is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.
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, 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 (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).
Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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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 398; 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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