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'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [103r] (210/302)
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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were disastrously defeated. Jeliangir and Jelal Khan were slain and Abbas
surrendered to Nadir Shah, who eventually took him with him to Tehran.
Muhammad Ali had been next directed to join the Baluchistan Commander
at Jalk-kharan, and on the conclusion of their operations to return to
Shorabec and reduce all the forts in the vicinity. Jalk was captured, but
Fir Muhammad, the chief
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
, being a man of little wisdom, conceited
and quarrelsome, separated from Elmas Khan on account of some trifling
dispute, and neglecting to advance on Kharan by leading his troops into
desert and mountainous districts exposed them to dreadful perils, and lost
his cattle and baggage. The general result of the operations of Nadir
Shah’s generals was, however, that Purdil became an outlaw wandering in
Kalat and Sind. At length he decided to throw himself on Nadir Shah's
mercy and seems to have been not only pardoned but to have been taken
into high favour, and in the year 1740 Nadir Shah, in consultation with
Mirza Kuli Beg and Muhammad Takki of Turkestan, gave Amir Abbas
and Purdil a list of forces to be collected by them from different tribes to
consist of one thousand and two hundred matchlockmen, strong and
young; and under their own responsible leaders, they were to consist
of—
Rakshani
Jalk, Dizak, Reki and Bamari
Sarbaz
Bampoor
Kej and T ump . .
Kolwah ...
Jalkol ...
Nasarkan . . . .
Ghe
Safhal . . . ■
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350
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150
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5 °
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103
“ One baggage camel to each two or three soldiers and one extra man
to look after it; each tribal leader to have two personal orderlies ; Mir
Safi, the leader of the Jalk band, is especially exhorted to follow with his
band and to render his services more worthy of recognition than those of
his brothers. In a separate sanad of the same date, Nadir Shah, after
consultation with the
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
of Karman, directs a yearly subsidy of one
thousand and five hundred
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
to be paid for the support of those
troops—this sum to be chargeable to the Karman revenues ; and in yet
another sanad of the same date he directs Amir Divar (Gitchki of Makran)
to hand over to Purdil Khan the districts of Baiduk and Kolwah, whilst
in a fourth sanad of the same date he grants to Mir Abbas and Rahmat
the districts of Rakhshan, Kharan, and Mashkai; the latter to remain in
the abovementioned districts, whilst the former was to attend on Nadir
Shah.
“These grants and settlements were made by Nadir Shah when he
was on his return march after his invasion of India. Purdil Khan appears
to have been unable to long enjoy his altered fortunes ; he was a very old
man, and it is stated that he died on his way back to take up his estates
(1740?). Thus, then, at this time Kharan, as it exists in the present day,
was established as a feudal district of Persia by Nadir Shah. Although
1 Sic in original.
s This force was evidently intended to join a large army which Nadir Shah was collecting
lor a campaign against Khiva and Bokhara, and which he successfully carried out.
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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).
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- 1 volume (147 folios)
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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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