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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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K
KACHIAN.—
A village o£ 100 houses in the extreme north*west of Pusht-i-AJ), about
6 miles 3 from Nasratabad. The water-supply of the village is obtained by
a canal branching off from the Rud-i-Adimi, and the land in the vicinity or
the village is not so extensively cultivated as in the southern parts of
Seistan. The inhabitants belong to many small Seisfcan clans of which
none is particularly represented. _ .
Resources. Sixteen ploughs cf cultivated land, 12 horses, 50 cattle, 600
sheep and goats, 7 camels, and 70 donkeys.
KAFTARGI.— , , ..... . ..
A village of 80 houses, built in a hollow and among sandhills nearly a mile
from the left bank of the Rud-i-Sheb-i-Ab in the Mahal-i-Nahrui. There
is a large lake at flood time on the north of the village formed by the over
flow from the Nahr-i-Killa-i-Nao, which passes close by on the west. The
sandhills render movement difficult in the vicinity of the village. The
inhabitants are of the Gurgich, Idozai, and Sayak clans chiefly.
.Resowrces.—Seven ploughs of cultivated laud, 2 horses, 20 cows, 150
sheep and goats, 5 camels and 40 donkeys.
KALAPABAZ.— , , e
A village of 40 poorly built houses, is situated about three quarters ot a
mile south of the Rud-i-Sheb-i-Ab among low sandhills, which render
movement difficult and slow. It obtains its water-supply by means of a
small canal from the Rud-i-Sheb-i-Ab.
Inhabitants are Gurgich, Sheranzai, and Idozai.
Resources (including the neighbouring hamlets of Tandurak and
Koadak, and parties of nomads attached to the village—eleven ploughs of
cultivated ground, 33 cows, 750 sheep and goats, 15 camels, and 34
donkeys.
KALUKHI.—
A small village of 20 huts in the Nahrui district, of which the inhabitants
are of the Gurgich and Ushtarak clans.
Resources .—Three ploughs of cultivated land, 10 cattle, 150 sheep and
goats, and 9 donkeys.
KARBASAK.— .
A small village of 20 houses in the south-west of Pusht-i-Ab, situated
just north of the Nurab or waste canal cut from the Zahak to the Naizar.
The surrounding land is thickly cultivated and sparsely populated.
The villagers are chief !} 7 of the Kakha and Siahsar clans.
Resources .—Five and a half ploughs of cultivated land, 10 cattle, 120
sheep and goats, and 20 donkeys.
KARKOHSHAH, commonly known as KARKOH.—
Is a small village of 15 houses in the centre of Miankangi, built on a high
tappa >> or mound, from which a fine view over the surrounding country
is obtained. Karkohshah is supposed to be the site of a town originally
built by Garshasap, one of the old Kaiani Kings, and traces of ruins still
exist. In recent years, Ali Khan, the late Chief of the Saruni tribe, made it
his head-quarters, but the surrounding land being high, water could not be
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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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