!['GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎85v] (175/820)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100025472703.0x000001/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_2_1_0175.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎85v] (175/820)")
'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [85v] (175/820)
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. .
Transcription
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
After some years’ quiet occupation a new governor, who was no other
than Nadir, was appointed to Ab-i-Vard. Baba Khan became prime favour
ite of Nadir’s, and served him devotedly. He followed him through
all his campaigns, and was rewarded after his accession to the Persian
throne by the governorship of Herat, and subsequently of other provinces
of Persia. He was killed at the siege of Bukhara some years later. His
nephew, Bihbud Khan, who commanded some of Nadir’s troops in Buk
hara, returned as governor of Ab-i-Vard, and was witness of the destruction
of all the flourishing towns of the Atak, during the times of anarchy in
Khorasan that attended the wars of the Zand and the Kajar. He was
himself slain by a Turkoman arrow. Unable, without aid, to withstand
the constant attacks of their Turkoman neighbours, the settled population
of the Atak retired, after severe loss, to the highlands. Aqa Muham
mad Khan, son of Bihbud Khan, who succeeded to the governorship, occu
pied the valley of Darreh Gaz, having, as Khorasan was practically indepen
dent, no title but that of the strongest. He and his family maintained them
selves by the sword alone ; for the support of their suzerains, the Shahs of
Persia, was always wanting when most required. Had they been dependent
on it, they would most assuredly have been driven back to the barren moun-
trins behind them ; while,but for their own sturdy resistance, their seat would
have been occupied by one or the other of their neighbours and enemies,
the chiefs of Kalat, Radkan, and Kuchan. The chiefs of the latter place,
in fact, regarded the petty chiefship on their border as in some sort
dependent on ^hem—an assumption that would long ago, if not vigorously
resisted, have ended in complete subjection. The following is a pedigree
of the family:
About this item
- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (396 folios)
- Physical characteristics
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.
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
Use and share this item
- Share this item
'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [85v] (175/820), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/2/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100037360147.0x0000b0> [accessed 24 April 2024]
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037360147.0x0000b0
Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.
<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037360147.0x0000b0">'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎85v] (175/820)</a> <a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037360147.0x0000b0"> <img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100025472703.0x000001/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_2_1_0175.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" /> </a>
This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100025472703.0x000001/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images
Copyright: How to use this content
- Reference
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/2/1
- Title
- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I'
- Pages
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence