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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎416v] (837/1278)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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HIN—HIN
struction of canals on the lower course of the river, apart from the poverty
and indolence of the cultivating classes. The nature of the canals is
noticed in the article on the Hindian river (q.v.). On the Lanjir canal
rice is grown; elsewhere the chief cereals are wheat and barley, the
quantity of wheat standing to that of barley in the proportion of 4 to 1.
Other common crops are beans, sesame and linseed (kitan buzurg), musk-
melons and water-melons. Owing to the uncertainty of the rainfall in
recent years, cultivators in the Hindian district have adopted the practice
of storing the grain of one season in large mud receptacles outside their
houses, until the prospects of the next crop are assured. Each village
possesses a due complement of donkeys, cattle, sheep and goats, besides a
few mares, and in the wet tract at the head of the district there are some
herds of buffaloes. The cattle of the district are humped. Grain is sold
by weight. The unit of land measurement in the gdu or area that a pair
of bullocks are supposed to plough in a day.
Trade and Communications. —The only exports of value are grain and wool
which have the district in considerable quantities. Horse-breeding is on
the decline, and the stamp of animal produced is not saleable in the Bombay
market. The imports consist of the ordinary necessities and simple luxuries
which the district does not produce. There are no local manufactures. The
Hindian village man is equal to about 240 and the Deh Mulla man to about
2471 lbs. English.
The plains of the district present no obstacles to the movement of man or
beast, except such as arise from their being slippery after rain, and are
waterless at other times. The most frequented routes starting from Hindian
village are :—
1. To Bandar Dllam by Shah Abul Shah. An adjacent route is from
Chehil ManI to Shah Abul Shah, 24 miles ; the track first crosses good
grazing land with numerous flocks of goats and sheep ; at about 14 miles it
traverses a plain with sparse herbiage which is muddy in wet weather, and
near Bandar Dllam it runs along some sand-dunes between mud-flats and
the sea.
2. To Zaidan by Chehil ManI and the Karsch pass 9 farsakhs, about 31
miles.
3. To Zaidan the river bank 16 farsakhs, about 56 miles.
4. To Jaizan in the Ramuz district by Deh Mulla and Asiab 21 farsakhs,
about 73 miles.
There are also two routes from Hindian town to Behbehan town ; one by
Zaidan, from which the route lies for 25 or 30 miles northwards towards
Behbehan ; the other Gargarl to Cham Siah on the Marun river, and up that
stream to Behbehan.
A track to Bandar Ma’shur, moreover, leaves the right bank of the Hindian
river at ’Abad Ilahl; and the right bank of this river is a highway through
out the length of the district. There is a small boat-ferry about 4 miles
below Deh Mulla.
Supplies and Transport. —No statistics are to hand as to the amount of
grain or other supplies procurable in this district. Grain, however, is grown
in every village, and a list of the villages of the district will be found in this
Gazetteer, vide Hindian river. Each village is separately described in this
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.

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 includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.

Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.

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1 volume (635 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 637; 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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