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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎42v] (89/820)

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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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BAL—BAM
70
#•
BALOCH—
Baliich nomads are found wandering almost all over Khorasan. They
are most numerous in the Turshiz, Turbat-i-Haidari, Khaf, and Kain dis
tricts. They even visit the camps of the Ja’afarbai Yamuts, and travel to
, the Gurgan and Atrak rivers. They also communicate with their brethren
in Baluchistan. Wherever they wander, they have to pay revenue to the
Persian Government. The following is a list of the clans resident in Khora
san :—
Families.
Khanzai ..
.. 1,000
MIrzazai
• •
• «
400
Behmadi
• •
* .
300
’Araf Rhanl
• »
• •
ft •
400
Allah Yarzai
• •
• •
• •
.. 300
Jalalzai ..
• •
. *
200
Bulakhani
• •
• •
• ft
.. 200
Brahui ••
• »
ft %
ft •
Total
260
.. 3,060
This estimate is probably excessive. At the rate of four per family, it
would give 12,240, as the Baluch population of Khorasan, exclusive of
SIstan.— (Stewart —vide Persian Baluchistan Gazetteer.)
A large number of families of the Baliich tribe are said to have been
moved by Mahmud of Ghazni from Baluchistan to Sistan, whence they were
brought to Khorasan by Nadir Shah and Karim Khan Zand. They num
ber about 3,000 far * nrc scattered in the Meshed,
Nishapur, Juvain,
Bakharz and Khaf
Besides these ther
Kain districts, when
in Khorasan have n<
ent sections of the 1
The Baluch famil:
bat-i-Haidari, Tursl
under the local gov
who is generally one
every year by the
altogether pay an a
of grain (f wheat ai
The Baluchis in tt
and pay a revenue >
BAM— Elev. 5,250'.
A large village c
head-quarters of th
a distance of 3 or
miles from Chaqane
Water good. Supj

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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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1 volume (396 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 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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