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'CORRECTIONS TO GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME III' [‎85r] (171/180)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (88 folios). It was created in 1913. 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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TAN—TAN
85
Military.
The number of tufangchis in Tangistan is altogether perhaps 1,000, but
there are so many blood feuds and enmities that it is improbable that more
than 300 could be collected together. At the time of Saiyid Murtaza’s
introduction of the Tangistanis into Bushire in 1909, 1,000 men were said
to have collected, but the number was really much less, and then they were
attracted by the prospect of loot. Zair Khidar has a residence at Sham-
shni, and a fort at Qalat near Ahram.
There is a large amount of arms smuggling carried on by the local head
men along the Tangistani coast, and occasionally Tangistani dhows indulge
in piracies. During t 1 e last 3 months of 1912 over 1,000 rifles were landed
on the Tangistan coast.
Administration.
Tangistan belongs properly to the Government of Bars, but it is now
nomin. lly under the Governor of the Gulf Ports, and he, in his turn, has
apparently sublet it to the local Khan who is the de facto The
annual payment due from the Khan is said to be 8,500 tumans a year.
For 40 years at least the ordinary residence of the ruling family has been
at Ahram, but it was originally at a village called Tangistan, whence the
name of the district. Tangistan village is said to have lain about 5 miles
south of ’ Ali Changi and the remains of it were swept away by a flood
in 1905. The town of Ahram is described as a comparatively recent acqui
sition of the Khan’s family, so also Khaviz on the Ahram river within the
mountains, also Abad, and Samal in the district of Dashtistan ; these were
all formerly in the hands of the Mashaikh-ul-Mazkur, whose power fell into
decay some years ago. Ahram, the Khaviz Valley and Samal are properties
of Nizam-us-Sultaneh, (being farmed for about 6,400 tumans in 1911); but
the grant was made by the Government in Tehran, irrespective of the
rights of ownership possessed by the Khans of Tangistan themselves
in the date gardens of Ahram.
In Tangistan there is no pretence of government, and even the rudimentary
civil justice, which in other districts is dispensed by the religious authorities,
does not exist—a deficiency which is attributed to the backward condition
of the people and their intractable character. The Khan, however, bv
leasing the villages of the district to their headmen, manages to realize
a considerable revenue. The incidence of the land tax is nominally 20 to 60
lerans per harvest on the gdu of cultivation ; on each date-tree an annual
impost of 33 cents, is levied ; and a poll-tax also is payable by each male
adult at the rate of 20 to 40 krdns.

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The volume consists of corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia Volume III (1910 Edition). This volume was produced in 1913 (4th series) by the General Staff, India.

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, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla.

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1 volume (88 folios)
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The entries are arranged in alphabetical order from front to back, with cross-references where required.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 88; these numbers are printed or in pencil, 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.

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