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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [51v] (107/142)
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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DEH
10
The villagers are of Gurgich and Sinjarani tribes.
Resources. ploughs of cultivated land^ 8 horses, 50 cattle, 240
sheep and goats, 9 camels, and 20 donkeys.
DEH BAKHTAL—
A village of 65 wattle-and-daub huts, situated on the Nahr-i-Alamdar in
the Mahal-i-Nahrui, and belonging to the Mahal of Sherifabad.
Resources .—Five ploughs of cultivated land, 50 cattle, 120 sheep and
goats, 4 camels, and 30 donkeys.
DEH BOZI, or BUZZL —
A village of 40 houses in the north of the Mahal-i-Sharaki, obtaining its
water-supply from the Rud-i-Hasinki.
Resources —Four ploughs of cultivated land, 2 horses, 50 cattle, 1,000
sheep and goats, 5 camels, and 15 donkeys.
DEH CHAKUL.—
A village of 70 wattle-and-daub huts in the north of Miankangi, belong
ing to the Mahal of Burj-i-Mirgul, and obtaining its water-supply from the
Nahr-i-Burj-i-Mirgul.
Resources. —Thirteen ploughs of cultivated land, 60 cattle, 120 sheep and
goats, and 20 donkeys.
DEH DIWANA.—.
A village of 50 houses in the north-west of Sheb-i-Ab on the Nahr-i-
Landaki, close to the edge of the Naizar or Hamun.
The villagers are of the Sufi and Suri elans.
Resources .—Four ploughs of cultivated land, 30 cattle, 30 sheep and
goats, and 30 donkeys.
DEH DOST MOHAMMED.—
Is a village situated close to the frontier in the Miankangi district, and was
originally built by AH Khan, father of the present Katkhuda, Dost
Mohammed, Chief of the Saruni Baluchis, but has been much extended and
improved by the latter.
Some excellent fruit gardens and fine willow trees give the village a
pleasing appearance, but it suffers from receiving its canal water-supply
rather late in the season. Originally the canal leading to Deh Dost
Mohammed was cut from the old Helmund, but of late years, owing to that
branch of the river bringing only a small supply, it has been connected with
another canal cut from the Rud-i-Parian.
There are a few merchants in the village, through which a fair amount
of trade passes into xAfghan territory, making it one of the most prosperous
villages in Seistan.
Deh Dost Mohammed makes a good camping ground when the canal
water has reached the district.
Resources .—Ten ploughs of cultivated land, 29 horses, 50 cows, 600
sheep and goats, and 60 donkeys.
DEH GAZMA.—
A village of 80 wattie-and-daub huts, belonging to the Mahal of Sherifa
bad in the Nahrui district.
The inhabitants are of the Gurgich, Ushtarak, Allahdo and Shahuzai
clans.
Resotirces.~-1?om ploughs of cultivated land, 30 cattle, 180 sheep and
goats, 6 camels, and 50 donkeys.
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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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