Niẓāmnāmah-ʼi miqyāsāt. Metrics system.
( نظامنامۀ مقياسات)

Name: Niẓāmnāmah-ʼi miqyāsāt. Metrics system.
Author: Afghanistan. Afghanistan.

Title	Niẓāmnāmah-ʼi miqyāsāt. Metrics system.
Title Original	نظامنامۀ مقياسات
Author	Afghanistan. Afghanistan.
Author Original	افغانستان
Publication Date:	1304
Publication Place	- Maṭbaʻah-ʼi Ḥūrūfī-i Riyasat-i Shirkat-i Rafīq
Subject	Weights and measures > Afghanistan.
Type	kitap
Language	Persian
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	6
Physical Dimensions	6 pages ; 21 cm
Library:	Columbia University Libraries
Library Asset ID	2002344691
Record ID	SCSB-10335530
Library Location	Offsite Shared Collection (Harvard)
Date	1304
Notes	Imperial seal of Amir of Afghanistan, Amanullah Khan, dated 1301 [1922 or 1923] is stamped at page 6. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Sample Text	Niẓāmnāmah-ʼi miqyāsāt (Rule book for measurement standards) deals with the standardization of measurement systems pertaining to length and weight, as well as currency. It was published in Afghanistan during the reign of Amanullah Khan (1919-29), the ruler under whom Afghanistan won its full independence from Great Britain. The book provides the names for the subdivisions and multiples of the units of length and weight in the metric system (i.e., the meter and the gram), but it does not provide information relating these new units to traditional units of measure, such as the dharʻ for length and the mithqal for weight. The introduction of the new standards was instead based on official prototypes that were shipped to various locations in Afghanistan and used as points of reference. The discussion of currency does provide conversion rates for the new monetary unit, the afghani, a silver coin weighing 10 grams that replaced the Kabuli rupee (at a rate of 11 Kabuli rupees to 10 afghanis). Also listed in the work are two gold coins, the amani and the half amani, named in honor of the Afghan ruler, and valued at 20 afghanis and 10 afghanis, respectively. The work includes an implementation timetable, which requests that the conversion project be completed by the spring of 1929, and warns that unspecified penalties will be imposed on those failing to make the conversion to the new system. The work was published in March 1926, in 50 copies, at the Rafiq printing press in Kabul. The author is unknown, but the book is stamped with the official seal of Amanullah Khan. Niẓāmnāmah-i albisah-i ʼaskarīyah (Military uniform regulation book), a slightly earlier work dealing with military uniform regulations under Amanullah Khan, appears to reflect a similar preoccupation with standardization as a key to progress. World Digital Library. Regulations of measuring systems for Afghanistan during the reign of Amanullah Khan, 1892-1960, the Amir of Afghanistan.
WorldCat	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51315939

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Niẓāmnāmah-ʼi miqyāsāt. Metrics system.

( نظامنامۀ مقياسات)

Author Afghanistan. Afghanistan.

Author Original افغانستان

Publication Date 1304

Publication Place - Maṭbaʻah-ʼi Ḥūrūfī-i Riyasat-i Shirkat-i Rafīq

Subject Weights and measures > Afghanistan.

Type kitap

Language Persian

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 6

Physical Dimensions 6 pages ; 21 cm

Library Columbia University Libraries

Library Asset ID 2002344691

Record ID SCSB-10335530

Library Location Offsite Shared Collection (Harvard)

Date 1304

Notes Imperial seal of Amir of Afghanistan, Amanullah Khan, dated 1301 [1922 or 1923] is stamped at page 6. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Sample Text Niẓāmnāmah-ʼi miqyāsāt (Rule book for measurement standards) deals with the standardization of measurement systems pertaining to length and weight, as well as currency. It was published in Afghanistan during the reign of Amanullah Khan (1919-29), the ruler under whom Afghanistan won its full independence from Great Britain. The book provides the names for the subdivisions and multiples of the units of length and weight in the metric system (i.e., the meter and the gram), but it does not provide information relating these new units to traditional units of measure, such as the dharʻ for length and the mithqal for weight. The introduction of the new standards was instead based on official prototypes that were shipped to various locations in Afghanistan and used as points of reference. The discussion of currency does provide conversion rates for the new monetary unit, the afghani, a silver coin weighing 10 grams that replaced the Kabuli rupee (at a rate of 11 Kabuli rupees to 10 afghanis). Also listed in the work are two gold coins, the amani and the half amani, named in honor of the Afghan ruler, and valued at 20 afghanis and 10 afghanis, respectively. The work includes an implementation timetable, which requests that the conversion project be completed by the spring of 1929, and warns that unspecified penalties will be imposed on those failing to make the conversion to the new system. The work was published in March 1926, in 50 copies, at the Rafiq printing press in Kabul. The author is unknown, but the book is stamped with the official seal of Amanullah Khan. Niẓāmnāmah-i albisah-i ʼaskarīyah (Military uniform regulation book), a slightly earlier work dealing with military uniform regulations under Amanullah Khan, appears to reflect a similar preoccupation with standardization as a key to progress. World Digital Library. Regulations of measuring systems for Afghanistan during the reign of Amanullah Khan, 1892-1960, the Amir of Afghanistan.

WorldCat https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51315939