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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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DAODI.—
A large well-built village of 300 houses, in the north of: Sheb-i-Ab,
situated on the Nahr-i-Daodi, a large canal branching from the Rud-i-
Sbeb-i-Ab near Chilling. It is the head-quarters of the Khimmar tribe,
and other clans to be found in the village are Kakha and Gallawi.
Resources .— Thirty-two ploughs of cultivated land, 20 horses, 50 cattle,
200 sheep and goats, and 50 donkeys.
DAOLATABAD.—
A village of 60 wattle and daub huts, situated close to the edge of the
Hamun in the north of Miankangi. About half a mile to the east of the
village is a high, well built house, inhabited by Malik Gulzar Khan, the
present head of the Kaianis.
Resources .—Three ploughs of cultivated land, 9 horses, 58 cows, and 250
sheep and goats.
DAOLATABAD.—
A well built village of 200 houses, in Sheb-i-Ab, on the Nahr-i-Daolatabad,
a branch canal of the Shela Kafir. The finest fruit trees and gardens in
Seistan are seen here, and there are also a number of fields enclosed by
high walls.
Daolatabad is the head-quarters of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Purdil Khan, Sarbandi, which
tribe is chiefly represented in the village.
Resources .—Twelve ploughs of cultivated land. 30 horses, 100 cattle,
200 sheep and goats, 50 camels, and 120 donkeys.
DARGI.—
A village of 160 houses in the north of the Pusht-i-Ab district, about
5 miles north-west of Nasratabad close to the mail route running
northwards from the latter place. It obtains its water-supply from one
of the numerous canals branching off from the Rud-i-Bunjar, north of
Deh Masti Khan.
The inhabitants are of many small clans, chief among which are Ghaochi
and Dargi.
Resources .—Twelve ploughs of cultivated land, 12 horses, 50 cattle, 150
sheep and goats, and 40 donkeys.
DASHTAK.—
Also known as Mahal-i-Dashtak.
This is the old seat of the Sharaki tribe, where
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Ali khan, their
present Chief, lives, and is situated on the left bank of the Rud-i-Sheb-i-Ab
in the Mahal-i-Sharaki.
Originally Dashtsk was a fine walled village, but it is now in a state of
decay, many of the houses being deserted and the walls in ruins. Sand has
buried a considerable part of the village, and also destroyed much of the
surrounding cultivation, and only some 150 houses, of the 250 which the
village originally comprised, are now inhabited.
The Rud-i-Sheb-i-Ab here overflows its banks and forms large lakes near
the village, and there being no ford which is practicable at flood time, a
wide detour has to be made to the east or west to cross the river. There is
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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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