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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎143r] (292/820)

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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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A village in Khorasan, about halfway between the towns of Bujnftrd
and Shahrud, 28 miles from Sankhas, 21 miles from Shafiabad (the border
village of Juvain), 51 miles from Jaghatai and 168 miles from Sabzawar,
jid Jaghatai (Juvain).
North-east of Jajarm is the Kuh-i-Sang Tarashan, to the north is the
Kuh-i-Zarrin Kamar, west by south the Kuh-i-Kababeh. The Turkomans
in their raids towards the Shahrud-Meshed road used to pass through
a valley between the Zarrin Kamar and the Sang Tarashan hills.
Formerly Jajarm was a large town. At present it is only a village and
contains about 500 houses, all having domed roofs from the impossibility
of procuring wood for rafters, and the whole is surrounded by a dilapidat
ed wall.
The village has two gates, one east, the other west, a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and
seven mosques. The large mosque, the Masjid-i-Jama’, has some fine
old tiles.
The village has seven quarters (Mahal!eh) : viz., Mahalleh of Sarsang,
Sar-i-Bazar, Maksudll, Dehkanha, Hajiha, ’Imarat-i-Kazi, and Sar Mahalleh.
From the great extent of the old wall of the place, it is clear that the
population of 350 families in the year 1874 was small in comparison to
that in the time of Nadir Shah, when there were some 5,000 families. As
late as the reign of Fath ’AH Shah (1884), the town furnished 200 men to
the regiment known as the Lashkar-i-’Arab-u-’Ajam. Its decline is at
tributed entirely to the Turkomans, who destroyed the irrigation works by
which only so large a population could have been maintained.
The present population of the village of Jajarm is estimated at about
2,000 souls, and that of the whole district including the three villages of
Garma, Aivar and Darreh (which contain from 50 to 100 families each) at
about 3,000 souls.
The inhabitants belong to the following ten tribes:—
1. Maksudli, a branch of the Garili Turks of Qalpush who settled her©
100 years ago.
2. Ganjai.
3. ’Arab from the ’Arabs of Shahrud-Bustam.
4. Uzbeg from Khvarazm.
5. Shakiri from Bukhara.
6. Fakhrani.
7. Husaini, Saiyids, also called Shaikh-ulTslamis.
8. Ramazanlu, a noble branch of the Garili Turks.
9. Hajiha.
10. Dehkanha.
In the centre of the village stands the arh or citadel of former days,
known by the name of Narin Kaleh, a mound some 70 or 80 feet in height,
surmounted with the remains of mud walls and bastions. These, however,
do not apparently represent the original fortifications, as below them
again, and buried in the slope of the mound, are said to be another and
older series of bastions and walls. Part of these latter have recently been
exposed on the western side, and consist of two walls, one above the other,
48 I. B. 2

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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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