'MOBILISATION ROUTES IN PERSIA (VOL. IV, PART II) (FARS, LARISTAN, KERMAN and YAZD)'
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Volume IV, Part II of a series of publications on ‘Routes in Persia’ produced by the General Staff, India. The volume, entitled Mobilisation Routes in Persia, has a military focus, and covers routes in an area in central and southeast Persia spanning Fars, Laristan, Kerman, and Yazd. The volum...
An index map displaying the routes described in Volume IV, Part II of a series of publications on 'Routes in Persia' [Iran] produced by the General Staff, India. The map covers an area in central and southeast Persia spanning Bandar Dilam, Isfahan, Kerman, and Bandar Abbas. The map displays ro...
‘SEISTAN. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS, AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PART I TO III’
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‘SEISTAN. A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, RUINS AND PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. IN FOUR PARTS. PARTS I to III’ (Calcutta [Kolkata]: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1910) by George Passman Tate. Parts I to III are an account of Seistan [Sistan]. It is based on a study of the history ...
‘Trākun, where a celebrated Fire-temple once existed.’
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A landscape photograph of a fort. The photograph was taken in Trakun [west of Bandar-e Wasati, Afghanistan]. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata] 1910.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commission th...
‘Safedik-the white mound, probable ruins of a palace; at Nādʼ Ali Zaranj.’
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A view of the probable ruins of a palace taken at Nad Ali Zaranj [Nad-e Ali]. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata] 1910.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commission that took place between 1903 and ...
A view of a ruined minaret called Mil-i-Kasimabad taken near the village of Kasimabad [an historic village seven kilometres north-west of present-day Zahedan, Iran]. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata] 1910.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was...
‘The citadel of Zaranj; ruins crowned by an Afghan fortified post. Nādʼ Ali.’
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A view of the citadel of Zaranj, a set of ruins crowned by an Afghan fort, taken at Nad Ali [Nad-e Ali]. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata] 1910.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken during the Seistan [Sistan] Boundary Commission that t...