'Military Report on Persian Seistan' [‎83r] (170/188)

SHA-SHA
and is quite uninhabited.— (C. E. Yate, 1894.)
H. D. Napier (1893) says there are 60 houses, 20 cattle, and 100 donkeys.
SHAITAN or SHAJTANAK—
See Nahr-i-Shaitan.
8HAND—
A village 80 miles south-west of Neh, on the road to Nasratabad. There
is water from a river bed, but no supplies.— {MacGregor.)
SHAR1FABAD —
A village situated on the Khwaja Ahmad Canal and contains about 100
houses, 6t cattle, and 50 donkeys. It possesses 45 ploughs of cultivable
land annually yielding 1,620 kharwars of grains wheat and £ barley),
of which the Government revenue amounts to 540 kharwart per annum.—
{H. D. Napier, Maula Bakhsh.)
SHAHREKL—
This tribe is supposed anciently to have been connected with the Sarbandi
and Brahui tribes under the collective designation “Nakhai.” They are
aho said to have been the ancient inhabitants of Seistan with the Kayanis,
and to have been at that time Gabrs, or “fire-worshippers." By local
tradition they are said to be descended from a Gabr Chief named Malik
Azdaha. He opposed Arabian Ali, and being defeated by a remarkable
act of prowess (Ali is said to have seized him by the waist, and with one hand
to have tossed him in the air, as he rushed to attack him), was at once con
verted to Islam.
In ancient times their seat was with the Sarbandi at Kuh Lakhshakh,
and the country south of the Zirreh hollow as far west as Ramrud. They
were driven from Seistan by Timur, and settled at Shahrwan near Burujird
with the Sarbandi, who were at the same time deported to Sarbandi; and
from these places it is that they derive their present names. Prior to this
period they were known as Mamasani Nakhai or Muhammad Husain
Nakhai.
During and after Shah Rukh’s time they gradually returned to Seistan
and the adjoining countries. They now number less than 10,000 families,
who are much scattered in Seistan, Kain, Kerman, and Lar.
In Seistan the Shahraki number about 1,200 families, distributed with
their subjects, or dihkan, in the following villages, some of which they have
since lost to the Nahrui-Baluch.
SHAH-MARDAN.—
A ziarat containing the tomb of a saint of that name, some 500 yards to
the north of the river of Gudar-i-Shah ; there are also said to be other ruins
iu the neighbourhood, but no one buried in same. — {C. E. 1 ate.)
List of Shahraki villages in Seistan.
Villages.
Houses.
Villages.
Houses.
Pashtak .
•
600
Luff
200
Kimak .
350
Jaziuak • . • • .
400
Wasilan .
200
Burj-i-Saiband ....
30
Pul pi
800
Kamtnak .....
200
Kana «
300
Kabri or Gabri ....
200
Shitak «
• «
600
Ziaratpah .....
100
Tiflak (
• 4
300
And a few other hamlets
250
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