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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [74r] (152/820)
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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remove themselves from there to Kaneh Gusheh and Karbakkeh, villages
near Meshed. Their chief then was Ismail Khan, son of Allahehar Khan.
Prom Kaneh Gusheh and Karbakkeh they were again moved to the Kush-
kaneh district of Kuchan but again returned to Kaneh Gusheh and Kar
bakkeh. They were then about 550 families, but this number was reduced
to about 200 families by famine, which subsequently occurred in Khorasan,
and other causes.
In the year 1885 they were moved to Pas Kamar on the Kashaf Hud
where they are settled at present. They now number 120 families only.
On Isma’il Khan's death, his son HajI Muhammad Amin Khan, the
present chief of the Rauti tribe, succeeded him. He is about 60 years of
age. _ . , .
He has a service of fifty savars, and he and his brothers Darvish All
Khan and Qalich Khan receive allowances from the Persian Government.
Firuz Kuhi .—This ’Amaq tribe now occupies the mountain country from
Kaleh Nau almost to Maimana. The present chief is Bahram Khan. Kadis
or Gadis is the chief seat of the tribe ; Bahram Khan being chief of this
portion of the country as well as of the whole tribe.
Chakhcharan is another Firuz Kuhi place. The local chief is Muham
mad Khan, and he has about 1,000 families who follow him.
The Firuz Kuhi are of Persian origin, having come, it is said, from
Firuz Kuh in the Elburz mountains, not far from Damavand.
TamdnI.—Less is known of this tribe of ’Amaqs than of the others.
They are said to number 17,000 families, and are the most numerous of
all the ’Amaq tribes. Their chief place is Tivara, south-east of Herat,
where the chief of the whole tribe, Anbia Khan, resides. They are said
be very uncivilized.
The TaimanI are said to be of Turanian, not of Persian origin.
A larger proportion of this tribe have settled habitations than the other
’Amaqs, and only a portion are nomads.
Hazara .—After the last siege of Herat the Persian General, the Hisam-us-
Sultaneh, Governor-General of Khorasan, moved about 5,000 families of the
Sunni Hazara tribe of Kaleh Nau, the head-quarters of the tribe in the Herat
district, to Khorasan. They were allotted lands in the Jam and Bakharz
districts, and their chief, Yusuf Khan, was given the rank and pay of
Sartlp (Colonel) with a service of a number of Hazara savars (irregular
cavalry).
After a short time about 2,000 families returned to Kaleh Nau, whereupon
the Persian Government did not consider it advisable to leave the remain*
ing families in the frontier districts. They, therefore, moved them to
Isfaraln, where they remained for some years. From Isfaraln they weie
moved to Kaneh Gusheh, a village near Meshed.
In the year 1877 Yusuf Khan was appointed Governor of Bakharz,
where he built the village of Muhsinabad on the Herat frontier, and settled a
number of the families there. His son IsmaTl Khan remained with a
number of the families at Kaneh Gusheh.
Yusuf Khan died in the year 1885 and his son Isma’il Khan succeeded him.
The Hazaras in Khorasan now number about 1,200 families and live at
Kaneh Gusheh, Kana Bist, Kalateh Chinar and Muhsinabad, in the Meshed
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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