'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III'

Title:

'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III'

Contributor:

Government of India, Quarter Master General's Department, Intelligence Branch (author)

Date:

1898/1898

Description:

The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India(Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].The information given for each route comprises:number of route;place names forming starting point and destination of route;authority and date;number of stage;names of stages;distance in miles (intermediate and total);remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia(folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.1 volume (367 folios)The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Volume

Type (Narrower):

Books

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Military intelligence

Geographic region:

Persia

Extent:

1 volume (367 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000001491.0x000114_ar
81055/vdc_100000001491.0x000114_en
Mss Eur F111/371

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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