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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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£HA—KIM
About half a mile to the west of the village, which is surrounded by
tamarisk jungle, is a small hill from which a good view can be obtained.
The villagers' 5 are mostly of the Khimmar and Bolagh tribes.
Resources .—Seven ploughs of arable land, 3 horses, 9 cows, 300 sheep
and goats, and 30 donkeys.
KHWAJA AHMED.—
A village of 100 houses, situated on the right bank of the Rud-i-Seistan,
about 4 miles from the Band-i-Seistan, in the Mahal-i-Nahrui. It is
the chief village of the Mahal-i-Khwaja Ahmed, which comprises ten
villages scattered about in the vicinity, as well as numerous small encamp
ments. The inhabitants are chiefly Gurgich Baluchis, Rahim and Allahdo.
Seven ploughs of cultivated land, 10 horses, 100 cattle, 4-50
sheep and goats, 12 camels and 60 donkeys.
KILLA-I-KOHNA, also known as BURJ-I-KOHNA.—
This is an extensive village of 300 houses, situated in what was one of the
most fertile parts of Seistan, but of late years sand has destroyed a great
deal of the cultivation in the vicinity. Killa-i-Kohna is noted for its
many fine fruit gardens, and there are four large tamarisk trees on the
north-west of the village, which form a conspicuous landmark.
"When the Halmand is in flood, the overflow water of the Killa-i-Nao
canal, which also feeds this village, forms an unfordable lake about three-
quarters of a mile long to the east of the village.
The inhabitants are Nahrui, Sharaki, Sarhadi, and Kayal.
Resources .—Thirty ploughs, 10 horses, 100 oxen, 600 sheep and goats,
2S camels, and 190 donkeys.
KILLA-I-NAO.—
A village of 120 houses in the extreme north of Pusht-i-Ab, about 12 miles
due north of Nasratabad, situated close to the border of the Naizar or
Hamun. The village is built in three parts and the inhabitants are chiefly
Kakha, Sanadgul, and Sarawani.
Resources.^—Eighteen ploughs of cultivated land, 7 horses, 60 cattle,
800 sheet and goats, 5 camels and 50 donkeys.
KILLA-I-NAO, also known as BURJ-I-NAOor BURJM-ALAM.—
Is a village of 300 houses, in the Mahal-i-Nahrui, built at the western
extremity of the low hills, which bound inhabited Seistan on the south and
south-east. The greater number of the houses are built on the low ground
at the foot of the hills, but there are a few together with the remains of an
old “Burj } * perched on a small hill adjoining.
The village has seen its best days, sand having destroyed much of the
cultivation in the vicinity. Water is obtained by a separate canal, named
the Nahr-i-Killa-i-Nao, from the Rud»i-Sheb-i-Ab. The inhabitants are
chiefly Nahrui, Rashki, and Kayal.
Forty-five ploughs, 10 horses, 120 oxen, 500 sheep and
goats, 54- camels, and 180 donkeys.
KIMAK.—
Is a well built village of 220 houses in the Mahal-i-Nahrui, on the left
bank of the Rud-i-Sheb*i-Ab, over which there is a ford, passable by
camels except at flood time close to the north of the village. Kimak is
built on and at the foot of a small hill, with a fine “ Burj y> or tower
on another hill adjoining it. To the west are a succession of four small
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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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- 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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