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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [262r] (540/820)
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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It is said that about a hundred thousand tumdns worth of turquoises
were taken out of the mines last year. The expenditure incurred at the
Ma’dan is given as follows :—
Tumdns.
Rent of the mines
Presents distributed to the ministers and other officials
Pay of the establishment and wages of the labourers
24.000
6,000
20.000
Total .. 60,000
The balance of 50,000 tumdns includes wages of cutting and dressing
stone charges for exporting turquoises to Europe, Russia and India and
the profit of the Malik-ut-Tujjar.
Only a very small number of turquoises are sold at Meshed by the Malik-
ut-Tujjar, as he puts very high prices on them.
Stones of superior quality are exported to Russia and other countries in
Europe, and those of inferior quality are exported to India.
The village of Ma’dan has two hamlets, and the number of families living
in them is estimated to be about four hundred. About three hundred per
sons work in the turquoise mines. The natives of the Ma’dan village are
exempted from the payment of duty at the salt mines and millstone quar
ries, provided they work these mines for themselves, but others are charged
one Jcrdn per donkey-load of salt.
Besides the rock mines there are mines in mounds of earth called Ma’dan-
i-Khaki. Stones of the most perfect colour and quality are found in these
mines, which are far less productive as regards numbers of stones than
those found in the rock mines.
The Khaki mines are free from taxation.
Very little cultivation is carried on at the village of Ma’dan. The pro
duce is insufficient for the consumption of the people. At a distance frem
Ma’dan there is a lead mine in a hill, which was once worked.
There are six qandts of water at the village of Ma’dan, supplies are procur
able. The road the whole way from Mashkan to Ma’dan is fit for wheeled
traffic.— (H. M. Tenvple.)
MAGAS—
A village in the Kakh bulvk of the Tabas district of Khorasan.— (Bellew.
MAGASl— 1
A stage 'n the province of Astarabad, 32 miles from the town of Astar-
abad, on the road to Samnan. It consists of extensive caves excavated in
the clayey soil, of which the sides of the mountains are here composed.
They are of sufficient extent to accommodate from 20 to 30 horses. A
clear rivulet flows near at hand, which forms a convenient bathing place
between Mian Darreh and Chehar Deh, being nearly equidistant from both.
(Holmes.)
MAG AS -I- GIL AN—
See “ Mazaj.’*
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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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- 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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