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The record is made up of 1 file (388 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1899-4 Apr 1904. 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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14-
notes ON PERSIAN SEISTAN.
THE CANAL SYSTEM OF SEISTAN.
TV main division o£ the Halmand water takes place at the Band-i-
— . . v. - v. ic a. tpmtinrarv contrivaiic© of tamarisk branchos and sand*
IJnta^h^Band is destroyed, as it usually is by the first Halmand flood,
• n Tirlirtlfi nf the water flows down the Rud-i-Seistan, a small
n'TntUv only percolatin'* through the dam and continuing along the main
quantity only perc o£ the Band, the water is fairly equally
divided about five part!following the main channel and four parts oontinu-
Following ^his^Utte^brauch first, we find it flowing about fortyfive
r011 ^ yards wide, with a maximum depth of ten
Bud-i-selstana ^ tQ ghahristan Hill, and furnishing
water e* rente by means of a large --1 to “ group o^Uages in the Mahal-i-
Nahrui, namely, Khwajah Ahmed, Shenfabad^tc^ takea
Rud-i-Hasinki. {• rom tbe ma j n stream, and passing close
to the east of the hill, flows as far as Deh Masti Khan, where it divides into
two branches. W-i-Buniar, is almost at once divided into nearly a
One, called , the n ® ud aid B ^ es ’ water to l ske l, Bunjar, Kasimabad, Deh
dozen separate chan Bolaij etC j while the other branch, the
Arbab, Burj-i-A g > Rud-i-Adimi, supplies Balakhana, Kachian,
Bud-i-Adimi. Adimi, etc. .
The main body of the Rud-i-Seistan, henceforward known as the Rud-i-
J Sheb-i-Ab, and formerly called the Killajat-
Rud-i-sneb.i-Ab. i-Sharaki canal, flows just north of the
•11 ^Vmbnctan about 200 yards, east of which another large volume of
village of Shahnstan, about ^ o2 by the Zahak or Rud-i-
Zahak or Rud-i-Shabr. Shahr, which, flowing close to Malik Haideri,
Gori and Jalai, supplies the wants of Nasratabad and Husseinabad, and, by
nf a subsidiary canal, Kul and Afzalabad.
The Rud-i-Sheb-i-Ab, flowing generally in a westerly direction, passes
rinse to Kimak south’of Jazinak, and near Dashtak, Chilling, and Deh ^ham
med Safar and"irrigates, by means of smaller canals and watercuts all the
cultivation south-west of the line Shahristan-Daodi. In the latter part of its
course, that is in the Sheb-i-Ab district, the main canals branchin 0 from it
la) Nahr-i-Sehkoha, flowing to Husseinabad, Yarmal, and Sehkoha.
(M Shela Kafir, which flows to Tuti and Daolatabad.
(c) Nahr+Daodi, which branches off at Chilling and supplies Tamar-
abad, Sinchuli, Daodi, etc. . t
Following next the main river, we find no canals bringing water int
Persian territory, between the Band-i-Seistan and the Bandu-Shahenl, where
the river again divides, about one-fifth of the water following the old bed oi
tne river agam uivi , ^ river> and the remainder flowing along
Rud-i-P&rian. the new channel, known as the Rud-i-Panan.
The water of the old
old HalmMid. exception, feeds the Miankangi district alone,
by means of twelve successive canals. Of these the largest, the Lakhshakb,
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The file contains papers relating to Seistan [Sistan] and Persia [Iran].
The file includes printed copies of despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorasan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, with enclosed despatches from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Marquis of Salisbury). Skyes’s despatches regard matters including: Seistan; trade routes into South-East Persia; the boundary between Persia and Afghanistan, in relation to the River Helmund [Helmand] changing its course (in despatch No. 5, which includes four sketch maps, folios 12, 13, 14 and 15); Sykes’s journey to Birjand (in despatch No. 7, which includes a sketch map on folio 20); the ruling family of Kain, which also governed Seistan, Tabbas and Tun; Sykes’s journey from Seistan to Kerman [Kirman] (in despatch No. 11, which includes a sketch map); and the direct Kerman-Quetta caravan trade that Sykes was trying to establish.
The file also includes copies of the following papers:
- A despatch from Temple to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing a letter from Temple to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (HM Minister, Tehran), with copies of enclosures, regarding the establishment of a Seistan and Kain consulate
- A letter from Charles Edward Pitman, Director General of Telegraphs, to the Secretary to the Government of India Public Works Department, enclosing a copy of a ‘Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier’ by H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department, which includes six photographs of views along the route [Mss Eur F111/352, f 52; Mss Eur F111/352, f 53; Mss Eur F111/352, f 54; Mss Eur F111/352, f 55; Mss Eur F111/352, f 56; and Mss Eur F111/352, f 57], and a map showing the proposed route of the telegraph line [Mss Eur F111/352, f 59]
- Letters from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing copies of the diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai, for the weeks ending 16 February, 28 February, and 8 March 1900
- Diary No. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Major-General George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, HM Consul for Seistan (Diary No. 6 includes a sketch map, folio 86)
- A copy of a ‘Report on Reconnaissances Made while Attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission’ by W A Johns, Deputy Consulting Engineer for Railways, Bombay
- A copy of the report ‘Notes on Persian Seistan’, compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, and issued by the Government of India Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General’s Department
- Two copies of map signed by Plunkett titled ‘Persian Seistan-Cultivated Area’ [Mss Eur F111/352, f 270]
- A booklet entitled ‘Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman.’
- Printed copies of letters from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), relating to the maintenance of British interests in Persia, dated 4 September 1899 and 7 November 1901 (the former with an enclosure of a minute by the Viceroy on Seistan).
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- 1 file (388 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 390; 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. The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 301A
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- 'Seistan'
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- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 58r:58v, 60r:112r, 113r:125v, 147r:218r, 218r, 219r:269v, 271r:301v, 301Ar, 301Av, 302r:388v, 389v:390r, 389r, back
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