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KAS-KAY
KASIDABAD—
A small village on the Dadi Canal possessing only three ploughs of cultiv
able land.— Bakhsh)
KASIMABAD— Lat. 31° 3 7 0" ; Long. 61° 38' 0". .
A small but prosperous-looking village inhabited by families of the
Sarbandi and Kalantari tribes. It is surrounded by cultivation, and is pro
vided with pure water by the Banjar Canal. The village contains 30
houses, 18 cattle, 70 sheep and goats, 10 camels, 20 donkeys; it possesses
12 ploughs of cultivable land. Government revenue 180 kharwars of grain.
— [Gildsmid; H. B. Napier s Ahmad Din.)
KA11D—
A village on the Hanauki Canal posse sing 15 ploughs of arable laud.
Government revenue 180 kharwars of grain.— {Ahmad Din.)
KAYAN1— . t
A tribe, the representatives of the ancient Kings of Persia, and the
ruling race until the time of Nadir Shah, ’lire last of the Kayani
C hiefs, who exercised any influence or authority in Seistan, was Malik Suli-
man, the power of whose family had already been curtailed by Nadir's
introducing the Sarbandis, and settling them on the lands south of the
Hamun about Sehuha. In the time of Malik Suliman's son and successor
Malik Barham, who died, it is said, in 1849, the Kayani influence finally
waned. The tribe now hardly exceeds a hundred families in the country ;
and these are scattered and in the different villages taken from them by
the Sarbandis and Shehrikis on the death of Malik Barham. The subjoined
statement shows the villages held by the Kayanis in the time of Mal’k
Suliman and their possessors in tue present day, and serves to illustrate
what they have lost during the past century :—
Numbeb o* Houses.
Villages.
Jalalabad
T5urj-i-Afgbaa
Panjar
iihitan .
Poll ,
Boli . .
Kasimabad .
Iskil .
Zahidan .
Kbadang .
Boghbar .
Kachjan •
Afzalabad
Nasratabad (fort)
Do. (town)
By Bsllew.
600
100
400
250
100
100
2C0
100
800
100
400
K0
80
120
100
By H. D.
Napier
in 1893.
100
70
700
40
30
120
60
60
"60
60
| 200 |
Present possessors.
Sarbandi and Dihkan.
Do. Dibkan and Afghan.
Do. and Kavani.
Do. do.
Do. and Dibkan.
Do. do.
Do. and Kalantari.
Kalantari.
Sarbandi and Dihkan.
Dihkan and mixed tribes.
Do. do.
Sarbandi and mixed tribes.
Mixed tribes anl Sarbandi.
Kayani and Persians.
Sarbandi and Dibkan.
The Dikhan in the above list are all Sarbandi subjects yraiyat) or tenants.
The Afghans in Burj Afghan are Tokhi Ghilzais, and only number some
20 families; they are subordinate to the Sarbandi, but are not subjects; they