Author
Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett
Publication Date
1903 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
eng,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
67
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Mss Eur F111/382
Record ID
vdc_100000001491.0x000123
Library Location
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.
Date
1903 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
A confidential report on the Persian region of Seistan [Sistan]. The report was compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, 1st Battalion (Lincoln Regiment), in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General's Department. The report was printed at the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, India, 1903.
The report contains information on geography, canal systems, communications, routes, climate, resources, ethnography, administration, agriculture, and local dialect. Included within the volume are the following:
District tables for Miankangi, Pusht-I-Ab, Mahal-I-Nahrui, Mahal-I-Sharaki, and Sheb-I-Ab, with statistics on numbers of houses, ploughs, horses, oxen, sheep and goats, camels, and donkeys for each village in each district (folios 7-28)
Genealogical tables for the various tribes in the region (folios 34-39)
Vocabulary and useful phrases in the local dialect (folios 42-45)
A map showing the cultivated areas of the region (folio 69).
Part II of the report is a gazetteer (folios 46-65).
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