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'Notes on Persian Seistan' [62v] (129/142)
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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E of 60 houses in the north of Pusht-i-Ab, on the edge of the
Naizar or Hamun, which obtains its water-supply by means of a branch
canal of the Rud-i-Adimi. , , .
The inhabitants are chiefly of the Sanadgul and Rahdar clans.
Resources ,—Seven ploughs of cultivated land, 6 horses, 300 sheep and
goats, and 20 donkeys.
REG-I-MURI.— , , , ^ ^ ..u
A small village of 20 wattle-and-daub huts, situated in the extieme noith
of the Miankangi district and belonging to the Mahal-i-Nahr-i-Sartip
Mohammed Reza, from the canal of which name it obtains its water-supply.
The cultivation belonging to the village is only in part carried on by the
inhabitants, nomads and men from other villages assisting. The inhabi
tants are Baluchis and various small clans.
Resources ,—Eight ploughs of arable land, 45 cattle, 200 sheep and goats,
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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- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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