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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎380v] (785/820)

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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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734
YAM—YAM
Grazing fees levied by Rus
sians.
Grazing best to south of
Atrak in summer.
Ak Ateh Bals.
Persians unable to levy graz
ing tax south of Atrak.
For this they are taxed at the rate of 6
roubles per aldchuq, the same as Russian
subjects.
In the summer the grazing is best to the
south, and the Ak Ateh Bais on the north
bank, who only number some 50 families all
told, then move across to the south bank, but
of course pay no grazing tax, as the Persians
are unable to levy it.
It was generally supposed that the south bank of tne lower Atrak was
thickly populated by Persian Yamuts, but this is not actually the case.
In the whole march from the Gurgan to the Atrak I only saw one small
did, about a farsakh from the Gurgan. These were camel-owners, and
their camels were grazing about, and they drew their water from the Gurgan.
I saw no sign of the 2,500 Ak Ateh Bal tents described on the map (S. W.
A. sheet No. 84) as wintering in this region, and the Ateh Bai and Ak
Ateh Bai in Persian territory all told only number some 350 families, of
whom the Ak Ateh Bai are under one hundred and are all on the Gurgan.
Practically speaking the tract between the two rivers is uninhabited.
So far as I can gather, of late years there have been hardly any Persian
settlements on the southern bank of the lower Atrak.
Years ago when the Ateh Bais and Ak Ateh Bais were both here, they
quarrelled over the land, and it was finally decided that the Ak Aieh Bais
should hold the land to the north of the river and the Atoh Bais that to
the south.
Some time after that, the Ateh Bai Chart'd, to the number of something
like 1,000 families, moved off to Balkan in Russian territory where they
still are.
They are great camel-owners, and the grazing here did not suffice for
them.
Since then the southern bank has practically remained untenanted.
At the present moment there are only about 20 families of Persian Ateh
Bai all told on the southern bank, viz., one small 5bd at Tangli and another
under Shaikh Nazar, 3 miles to the west of it.
Absence of a representative
of Persian Government on the
lower Atrak frontier.
The Persian Government have no represen
tative on the frontier, and neither the Gov
ernor of Astarabad nor^any of his men that I
know of dar 3 go there.
The Persian local officers are thus able to take advantage of the situation
and do as they like, and if the local tax-collector, anxious to enhance his
receipts, taxes the Persian subjects at the same time that he does the Rus
sians there, there is no one to say him nay.
From Oba-i-Shaikh Nazar Ateh Bai we pro
ceeded along the southern bank of the Atrak
to a place opposite Taushan Kir, 9 miles.
Tausban Kir.

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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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