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'Additions to Gazetteer of Persia, Volumes II to IV.' [99r] (197/370)
The record is made up of 1 file (185 folios). It was created in 1896. 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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HAFT-TAHAR— contd.
hours. The women are all employed in making “givas” or native shoes,
the upper of cotton is knitted on to a sole made of old rags and sinews
of sheep, it is very enduring and is used in one form or another through
out the country. The “07pas ^ are taken to Yazd and Isfahan; during
harvest time some 15 pairs are made daily, in winter about 25 pairs. The
price is from 2 to 5 krans a pair.— {Preece, 1892).
SURKH.—Vol. Ill, page 021.
A village in the Yagmish plain, Yazd, situated on the slopes of an
isolated hill to which it gives its name.— {Preece, 1892).
NADUSHAN.—Yol. Ill, page 478.
A town on the road between Yazd and Isfahan, 138 miles from the
latter place. It is a small walled town, with good buildings and gardens,
but a good deal of it is in ruins. The newest buildings are all outside
the walls. The hills immediately over the town to the east are very
curious and look like mud volcanoes. The streams of mud have passed
round the bases of the limestone' hills, leaving the peaks cropping out.
The town, which contains 400 houses (1,720 people) and is divided into
six mahalas or parishes, belongs to peasant proprietors, who pay 1,110
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
taxes (200
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
for grazing sheep and 810 for the six dungs). It
is watered from kanats, 200 jeribs in 24 hours; 700 kharwars (4,55,000
lbs.) of wheat and barley are sown yearly. In the town is a mill, and
there are 1,200 sheep and 100 oxen for the plough.—
{Preece, 1892).
SADRABAD.—Vol. Ill, page B07.
A village in Yazd, 8| miles south-south-east of Nadushan.—
{Preece, 1892).
GARDAN-I-SHAMSABAD.—Elev. 8,500'. Vol. Ill, page 246.
A pass, 21 miles east of Nadushan on the road between Yazd and
Isfahan.— {Preece, 1892).
ALIABAD.—Vol. Ill, page 54.
A village in Yazd lying under a hill of the same name on the direct road
from Yazd to Shiraz across the Aberguh desert.— {Preece, 1892).
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This file consists of additions and corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia. Additions and corrections are organised in alphabetical order. Each addition or correction is accompanied by the source of the information.
The corrections are accompanied by a memorandum from the Quarter Master General in India, Intelligence Branch, to the Honourable George Curzon, MP, Carlton Club, London. The subject of the memorandum is given as 'Additions to Gazetteer of Persia, Volumes II to IV.' A note states that they are 'Forwarded for information in continuation of this office No. 3146.I. dated 24th October 1896 by F. G. Cardew, Captain, for Quarter Master General, India.'
Also included (folio 41) are tables of routes within Persia with hours riding time by horse and costs of carriage. In addition there are a number of tables of data. For example, weather observations (ff 53-63), bazar prices (f 109), imports and exports (ff 119-120). Mostly the additions contain supplementary information on the settlements.
Individuals submitting additions include Butcher and Stotherd, Picot and Preece.
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The papers in the file are arranged in order of the various submitted contributions and in approximate chronological order.
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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 185, 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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