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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎128v] (263/820)

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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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238
HAS—HAS
HASHMATABAD (No. 2)—
A walled village, 25 miles from Turbat-i-Haidarl, on the road to Meshed,
situated in the Julgeh-i-Rukh valley. It consists of 40 houses, containing
120 inhabitants, and possesses 30 cattle and COO sheep and goats. The
annual production of wheat and barley (§ wheat, § barley) in ordinary
years is about 1,550 Indian maunds. Water-supply from a kariz, slightly
brackish.—(0. Wanliss, August 1903.)
HASHMATABAD (No. 3)—
A small village situated amidst the hills on the road between Birjand
and Kain, 29 miles from the former and 25 miles from the latter. It con
sists of 5 houses only. Good water from a kdrlz. — (C. Wanliss, August
1903.)
HASHTADAN—
A sub-division of the Bakharz, situated on the eastern frontier of
Khorasan, east of Khaf. The Hashtadan valley was a disputed tract
and both the Persians and Afghans laid claims to it. The dispute
was, however, settled in 1891 by General MacLean by a division of the
Avater-supply available for irrigation. Since then the tracts allotted to
Persia and Afghanistan have been occupied.
The greater part of the district belongs to the Nusrat-ul-Mulk, the Persian
Timuri chief, who has built a number of new villages. The inhabitants
are partly Hazaras and partly Persians, . the former predominating.
Their chief is Muhammad Riza Khan, Shuja’-ul-Mulk, who has 800 Hazara
savdrs under his orders. The actual garrison in Taiabad consists of
200 soldiers, 20 gunners, and 50 Hazara sardrs.
Inhabitants. There are also two guns. A considerable number
of nomads, Afghans, Baluchis, Hazaras and TimurTs, encamp on tbe plain
near the Afghan border, where there is most excellent grass, real English
turf, among the low hills during spring, and probably lasting well on into
the summer. The soil is light and sandy, and
early in March the whole plain was literally
alive with tortoises, so much so that one’s horse could not canter along
without crushing them. Unfortunately there is a scarcity of water.
The Hashtadan valley is the favonrite wintering ground of Bahluri and
Baluch nomads, who visit the place ev ry year with their flocks, and
remain there during the winter and spring when grass is plentiful.
Wild asses used to abound in the plain, but they have disappeared
since the place was occupied. They are said to have moved further
south towards the Namaksar (salt lake).
The mound of Hashtadan is the usual tappeh covered with bits of bricks
and pottery, marking the ruin of some ancient citadel, and the plain
around is covered in the same way far on every side, showing that the city
was of large extent; on the northern side of the plain again there are the
ruins of Kulukh Fardeh, but these are apparently of modern origin, as
a graveyard still exists with a tombstone bearing date 1080 Hijrah (1669
A. D.).
Pasture.

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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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