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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [53r] (110/142)
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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13
PEH
The inhabitants are of the Kul and Kakha clans.
Resources. —Four ploughs of cultivated land, 12 cattle, 100 sheep and
goats, and 15 donkeys.
DEH KAMALL—
A village oi 60 houses in the west of Pusht-i-Ab, about half a mile south
of the Rud-i-Adimi, about 5 miles from Nasratabad.
The ground is not extensively cultivated in the neighbourhood of this
village, and is easily traversed. The inhabitants are chiefly of the so-called
Kamali clan.
Resources. —Ten ploughs of cultivated land, 5 horses, 30 cattle, 1,000
sheep and goats, 15 camels, and 20 donkeys.
DEH KARBELAI DADKHUDA.—
A village of 60 houses in the extreme south-west of the Sheb-i-Ab district,
which is watered by a small canal leading from the Shela Kafir. The Gada
clan is chiefly represented among the villagers.
Resources. —Ten ploughs of cultivated land, 5 horses, 50 cattle, 50 sheep
and goats, and 25 donkeys.
DEH KHALIKDAD.—
A village of about 100 houses in the extreme south of the MahaUi-Nahrui,
which draws its water-supply by a branch canal from the Nahr-i-Killa-Nao!
The inhabitants are Nahrui and Khalikdadi.
Resources. —Ten ploughs of cultivated land, 1 horse, 50 cattle, 100 sheep
and goats, and 70 donkeys.
DEH KUNDA,—
A village of 60 wattle-and-daub huts, belonging to th$ MahaM-Dost
Mohammed in Miankaugi.
Resources. —Five ploughs of cultivated land, 15 cattle, 250 sheep and
goats, and 20 donkeys.
DEH LAL MOHAMMED, or DEH LALT, or DEH ASGHAR —
A village of 25 houses in the north-west of the Sheb-i-Ab district, near
the main track leading from Nasratabad to Jelalabad. The inhabitants are
chiefly of the Tojagi clan, and the villagers from Bolai assist in the culti
vation belonging to Deh Lai Mohammed.
Resources. —Six ploughs of cultivated laud, 2 horses, 40 cattle, 150
sheep and goats, and 20 donkeys.
DEH LUTFULLAH.—
A village of 70 houses, close to the edge of the Naizar or Hamun, in the
north-west of Sheb-i-Ab. Its water-supply is obtained by a small canal
branching from the Nahr-i-Landaki.
Resources. —Nine ploughs of cultivated land, 2 horses, 30 cattle, 25 sheep
and goats, and 30 donkeys.
DEH MALIKI.—
A village of 40 wattle-and-daub huts, in the Miankangi district, about
half a mile from the Rud-i-Parian and on the main route from Nasratabad
to Deh Dost Mohammed.
Resources.—Six ploughs of cultivated land, 2 horses, 50 cattle, 300
sheep and goats, and 12 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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