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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [6r] (16/302)
The record is made up of 1 volume (147 folios). It was created in 1904. It was written in English. 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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GLOSSARY OF VERNACULAR TERMS USED IN THIS
REPORT.
Ab
... Water.
Bad
... Wind.
Badasia ..
... Windmill.
Bad-i-sad-o-bist-roz ... The 120 days’ wind.
Bed
... Willow.
Bhusa
... Broken straw.
Bag or Bog
Chah ...
... Marsh.
... A well, or a shaft.
Chaman
... A grassy plain.
Chauki .. ;
... A building used as a police station.
Chakul ...
... Waterfall or a spring issuing from ground
elevated above the plain.
Dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
..,
... A clear alluvial plain.
Daman
... The skirt, or glacis slope of hills.
Dann
... A small hamun.
Daskt ...
... A gravelly or stony plain.
Duz
... A robber.
Hamun ...
... A large lake swamp or place where the drain’
age of the surrounding country collects, though
often dry.
Kafila
A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers.
... A string of baggage animals.
Karez ...
... An underground water-channel.
Kaur ,. 0
... A water-course.
Kavir ...
... A plain covered with salt efflorescence.
Kharwar ...
... A measure of grain equal to 100 Tabriz maunds;
an ass-load; 400 lbs.
Kbassadar
... Irregular military police.
Kisan ...
... Small.
Kob, or kuh
Lut
... Hill, or mountain.
... A waterless tract, a desert.
Malik ...
... Headman of a village or tribal section.
Mazan
... Large,
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A report, marked as secret, on the area of Nushki, Chagai, and Western Sinjarani. The report was compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department. The report was commenced in 1897 by Captain R E Roome, 6th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob's Horse), and revised and completed by Major W C Walton, 104th Wellesley's Rifles, Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General in 1903. It was printed at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, in 1904.
The report includes a preface by Colonel John E Nixon, Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch (folio 5) and a glossary of vernacular terms used (folio 6). The main body of the report contains chapters on geography, communications, fortified posts and forts, climate, sanitation, resources, ethnography, history, administration, and military strength.
The second part of the report includes a gazetteer of topographical and ethnographic information (folios 36-127) and appendices covering wells, canals, and meteorology, and including a report on the signalling stations of the Dalbandin-Robat line, with sketches (folios 131-147).
The volume includes the following maps:
- Map of Southern Baluchistan (folio 2)
- Sketch Map of Signalling Line from Dalbandin to Robat (folio 148)
- Map of Persian Seistan [Sistan] Cultivated Area (folio 149).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (147 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume includes a table of contents (folios 5-6) with reference to the original pagination.
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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 149; 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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- 'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 3r:146v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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