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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎378r] (780/820)

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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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YAM—YAM
729
ties north of the Atrak as far as Balkan in one direction, and in the other
eastward as far as Kara Kala, which is 112 miles distant from Bujnurd.
The Charm keep more to the north towards the Atrak. For a con
siderable part of the year they are away in the Balkan and Misrian dis
tricts, and some of their camps move on towards Kiz.il Arvat and the
Akhal country, but they all return during the harvest season to the Atrak
and Gurgan districts, for the purpose of reaping and storing their grain.
The Chumur do not quit the Gurgan lands on both banks of that river ;
but some of them bring their camps quite close to the Astarabad jungle
in the winter, and withdraw again to their usual localities during the
summer months. The amount of revenue payable by their tribes is 2,100
iwmaus—equal to £420—annually. If the provincial administration at
Astarabad were good, 5,000 tutnans might be expected without difficulty.
But the fact is that the Governor is seldom in a position to enforce pay
ment of even 1,000 tumans of the tribute claimed.
The nomad Yamuts are constantly robbing the Guklans, who harry them
in return. They also sometimes raid in the neighbouring settled Persian
districts of Astarabad and Shahrud.— {Thomson-, Napier) War Office,
‘ c Persia ”.)
The territory occupied by Persian Yamut Turkomans at present is bound-
Boundari.es ec ^ on nor ^^ ^7 Atrak river, on the
west by the Caspian Sea, on the south by
Kara Su, Ak Kaleh and the forest below Sangar-i-Haji Lar and Fidarisk, on
the east by the Harhar stream and Yas Tappeh. To the north and north
west of Gukcheh lies a low range of hills called Tapashi, extending from
the Karnava range on.the east and gradually sinking into the plain on the
west, beyond which is Yamut territory.
According to the head of the Kan Yukhmaz {Chumur) section of
Yamuts, the Yamuts do not cultivate land along the edge of the forest
facing Sangar and Naudeh, because it formerly belonged to the Guklans,
and the Yamuts go there only to graze.
According to him the Yamut lands lie to the west of Gumbad-i-Kabus,
and the Yamuts cultivate there along the banks of Gurgan.
With regard to their occupation the Yamut
Turkomans are divided into two classes, viz.,
Chumur and Charm.
cultivators who form the more settled portion of
the Yamuts, live more or less in permanent
dhds (settlements), and pay revenue to Govern
ment.
The Chdrvd are the cattle-owners and nomad portion of the tribe,
Cbarva are more independent and move about, and
generally evade the payment of revenue even
though they may cultivate some land.
The Chdrvd are the people who are said to
give all the trouble.
Starting from Yankak (the most westerly Guk-
lan ohd) we went to Yas Tappeh and rode on.
4 z
Division, by occupation.
The Chumur are the
Chumur.
The troublesome class.
Description of the Yamut
country.
48 I. B.

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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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