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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [37v] (79/142)
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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NOTES ON PERSIAN SEISTAN.
the present man, Mir Amir, is a man of weak character and has but little
influence. He is reputed to be very rich, and has a large collection of old coins
and seals.
The principal villages where the Mirs, who number about forty families
only, are to be found are :—Iskel, Bunjar, Kasimabad, Deh Jehangir, Tappa-
i-Khamak, Malik, Haideri, and Bibi Dost.
Genealogical tree of Mir Tribe,
Mir Mahmun.
Mir Mubariq.
Mir Abbas. 1 Mir Kasim Mir Ghulam Mir Shir 3 Mir Jan Mir Hussein, d.
(Katkbuda of (Katkhuda of (Katkhuda of Mohammed, d.
Kasimabad). Bunjar). Malik Haideri
and Tappa-
Khamak).
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Mohammed. Mir Amir. 2 Kasim. Mohammed Ahmed.
Aet. 28. Aet. 24. Aet. 21. Ali.
(Young boys.)
1 Mir Abbas was the recognised leader of all the Katkhudas of Seistan ; he w:ts murdered in 1901.
a Mir Amir is new “Kalantar ” of Iskel, and an important man, but has not the same position as his father.
s Mir Shir married the widow of Pasana Khan, Gurgich Baluch, who is the sister of Derweish Khan, head of
the Jemalzais.
Said or Sayid.
Although the Saids or S ay ids are strictly speaking a sect and not a
tribe, yet, owing to the fact that they are settled apparently permanently in
certain parts of Seistan, and that land has been granted outright to their
present leader, they can conveniently be dealt with here.
It is said that the family of A glia Mir Sayid Ali (the chief Sayid has
always the titles of “ Agha^ and c ‘ Mir”) came to Seistan from the neighbour
hood of Kerman, and their leader was granted a “ Jagir ” by the Shah, which
comprised the village of Aliabad, a share of the villages of Kala-i-Kohna, Deh
Sukbta, and Deh Khalikdad, as well as a village in Pokak in Miankangi.
Sayid Ali was the only man who made an effort to save the Amir’s
Nazir” or clerk, Abdul Wahab, at the time of the disturbance consequent
upon the vacation by Sartip Mir Ma’asum of the Deputy Governorship of
Seistan in favour of his brother Mohammed Reza. After the Nazir was
murdered at the instigation of Mir Ma^asum, Sayid Ali was employed by the
Katkhudas of Seistan, who had previously sided with Mir Ma’asum, to
intercede for them with the Amir Hashmat-ul-Mulk, and accompanied the
mission sent for that purpose to Tabbas.
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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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- '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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