'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [111v] (227/302)
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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and there were altogether some 250 acres under wneat and barley
The village possesses 70 cattle and 200 sheep and goats. The present
Khan is Ibrahim Khan. {Wanliss, February Tgoj.)
PULCHOTA ZIARAT—Lat. 29 0 iT; Long. 65° 9'; Kiev.
At the eastern foot of Mekh-i-Rustam hill and south of the Thal-Zarala
road.
PURTUS—
A halting-place on the road from Sayad Bus in Shorawak to Zahro on
the Nushki-Shah Ismail route to the Helmand. It is 24 miles from
Sayad Bus and the same from Zahro. There is a large tank here which
is a much-used watering place for the flocks of nomadic Mengals and
Rakshani Baluch, the chiefs of which tribes reside in Nushki. Firewood
and grass are abundant.
It is said to be about 18 miles from Band and bears 26° mao’, from
that place. [Maitland—from native information.)
Purtos Nawar. —A splendid horseshoe-shaped tank of beautiful water
surrounded all round by high sand-hiils ; water reported to be deep in the
centre. It looked like it. [Walters.)
PUSHT-I-KOH or PUSHT KOH— see Koh-i-PuSHT.
PUSHTIWAN—
The name of a dry nala in the Chagai district. It is shown on the
map as the name of a place, which is wrong. [Roome.)
RADOI ZONK—Lat. 28° 35'; Long. 64° 6'; Elev. 3,200 / .
An easy tangi 300 yards long north-north-west of the Malik Surindag
through which the Nushki-Ladgasht road passes and in which the
Scrap river has its source, a beautiful spring of good water.
Fuel and camel-grazing are plentiful, and grass in summer. Sheep
and ghi are procurable in the neighbourhood. The camping-ground
here is restricted. [Ahrnad Ali Khan.)
RABAT—Lat. 29 0 25'; Long 65° 16'\ Elev.
On the Kulawo river about i6 miles east of Lora Hamun.
RAHIHO WELL—Lat. 29 0 1 P; Long. 64° 44'; Elev.
About 8 miles south by west of Chagai.
RAHIM DAD WELL—Lat. 29 0 16'; Long. 64° 44' ; Elev.
About 1 1 miles south by west of Chagai.
RAH 10 PASS—Lat, 28° 7' 40'''; Long. 63° 15' 2o f/ ; Elev.
A pass leading from Namreg in Dalbandin through the range to the
south to Kharan. It passes between two high peaks in that range called
Koh Charian and Koh Kambaran (7. v.). The distance is three stages,
[MacGregor.)
RAH-I-RAHor RAH RAU—
A halting-place on the bed of the Mashkel, the eighth stage from
Kharan on the road to Galugah and Jalk vid Regin. It is 12 miles dis*
tant from Zaman Kushta (the next stage towards Kharan) and 19 miles
from Galugah. There are shallow wells and pools in the bed of the
stream, but the supply of water is precarious. Tamarisk jungle is
abundant. {O’Donnell.)
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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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