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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎158r] (322/820)

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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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immense force. He completely surprised the camp—all was terror and
confusion. He had advanced close to the tent of Aqa Muhammad, and
had he proceeded, he would have been sovereign of Persia by one of the
most bold and wonderful actions that ever was recorded in history. But
he unfortunately listened to a pretended friend, who assured him that
Aqa Muhammad and every soldier of his army had fled, and that only
the baggage and treasure remained; and that if he attempted to seize
that before morning, he would lose in a promiscuous plunder what, if
preserved, would make him a rich monarch. Thus deceived he waited till
day; and when that broke, an extraordinary spectacle was presented. Aqa
Muhammad, surrounded by about 10,000 of his army, mostlv the infantry,
which were all that remained, and the victorious Lutf ’AH Khan, a few
hundred yards from his tent, with about fifty horsemen, the rest having
separated to plunder. Lutf ’AH Khan, of course fled. Aqa Muhammad
advanced and took possession of ShLaz where he remained till the whole
of his army reassembled. Some of the fugitives did not stop till they
reached Tehran, which is upwards of 20 days’ journey.
4 ‘ Aqa Muhammad now assumed the sovereignty of all Persia. He
seized every relation of the Zand family, and those whom he did not put
to death he deprived of their sight. He distributed the women of Lutf
’AH Khan among his mule-drivers, the greatest disgrace he could possibly
inflict. On HajI Ibrahim he bestowed the highest honour, and twelve
months afterwards, when he determined to follow Lutf ’AH Khan (who,
assisted bj about 200 followers, had taken Kinhan), he appointed him
governor of all Pars.
“ Tllls expedition of Aqa Muhammad was attended with the most
shocking ravages; he laid waste the country and murdered the inhabitants
as he went along. He was nine months besieging the town of Kirman
before he could take it; and Lutf AH Khan having, previous to its surrender,
cut his way through the strongest part of his army with only seven
attendants, he is said to have given way to the most savage fury and to
have wreaked all his vengeance on the “inhabitants. The men who were
not slain had their eyes plucked out, and it is affirmed on undoubted
authority that seven hundred suffered this dreadful punishment in one
day. The women and children were delivered up to the lust and fury of
the savage Turkomans. Lutf ’AH Khan fled to Bam, which is about two
hundred and forty miles from Kirman. Its faithless inhabitants first invited
him to their fort; then seized him and sent him to Aqa Muhammad,
who immediately deprived him of sight, and then sent him to Tehran, where
he rvas put to death.
Ihus perished, in the 28th year of his age, a prince, who was perhaps
never surpassed in personal strength and undaunted courage. He is also
said to have been generous and charitable ; but his temper was proud and
unequal, and his passion so irregular and violent, that he was no less the
terror of his friends than of his enemies.
Aqa Muhammad after this success marched from Kirman to Shiraz
the fortifications of which city he razed to the ground. He appointed
Haji Ibrahim Vazir to the empire, and after a halt of two months went
to Tehran.

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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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