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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [5v] (15/142)
The record is made up of 1 volume (67 folios). It was created in 1903. It was written in English and Persian. 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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2
NOTES ON PERSIAN SEISTAN.
states that Miankangi, after a lapse of about 18 years, has again been flooded
in 1908.
—■•This district includes all the villages west of the Uud-i-
Parian, and north of a line drawn from the
Fusht-i-Ab. Band-i-Parian through Deb Jehangir, Kaud,
Seh Kala, north of Gori, south of As-i-Ghazi, Baghak, and Kul to the
Naizar or Hamun. Next to Sheb-i-Ab this is the most fertile part of
Seistan.
Mahal-i’Nahmi —Which is bounded on the east by the Helmund from
the Band-i-Seistan to the Band-i-Parian, and
Mahal-i-Nahrui. thence by a line drawn through the villages
of Kaud, Seh Kala, Burj-i-Sarband, Dashtak, Aliabad, Kala-i-Nau, Shahris-
tan to the Band-i-Seistan.
Mahal'i-Sharalci —Which includes all the land enclosed between the
villages of Dashtak, Burj-i-Sarband, Malik
Haideri, Deh Bozi, Gori, and Babramabad.
Sheh-i-Ah —This district comprises by far the richest,,part of the culti-
ShebiAb vation of Seistan, and is situated in the
extreme south-west of the inhabited area,
being bounded by a line drawn from the Koh-i-Kwaja through Yarmal, Sehkoha,
Sharak, Bahramabad, Baghak, and thence north-east to the Naizar.
A list of villages in these five main divisions is attached.
Mahal-i-Sharaki.
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A confidential report on the Persian region of Seistan [Sistan]. The report was compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, 1st Battalion (Lincoln Regiment), in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General's Department. The report was printed at the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India, 1903.
The report contains information on geography, canal systems, communications, routes, climate, resources, ethnography, administration, agriculture, and local dialect. Included within the volume are the following:
- District tables for Miankangi, Pusht-I-Ab, Mahal-I-Nahrui, Mahal-I-Sharaki, and Sheb-I-Ab, with statistics on numbers of houses, ploughs, horses, oxen, sheep and goats, camels, and donkeys for each village in each district (folios 7-28)
- Genealogical tables for the various tribes in the region (folios 34-39)
- Vocabulary and useful phrases in the local dialect (folios 42-45)
- A map showing the cultivated areas of the region (folio 69).
Part II of the report is a gazetteer (folios 46-65).
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- 1 volume (67 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 68; 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.
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- English and Persian in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Mss Eur F111/382
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- 'Notes on Persian Seistan'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:67v, back-i, 69r:69v
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