'Seistan. Irrigation report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I. Report and appendices. Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906'
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- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Seistan. Irrigation report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I. Report and appendices. Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906'
- Creator:
- Author: Irrigation Officer, Seistan Arbitration Commission
Author: Seistan Arbitration Commission - Date:
- 1906/1906
- Description:
- Abstract: The first volume of reports produced by the Irrigation Officer of the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department.Contents:'Chapter I. The catchment area of the Seistan Lake. The trough of the Helmand River below Kala-i-Bist.''Chapter II. The delta of the Helmand River.''Chapter III. The inundated area.''Chapter IV. Canals, ancient and modern.''Chapter V. Rainfall in the Helmand basin.''Chapter VI. Note on the evaporation from the surface of water in Seistan.''Chapter VII. Lines of levels, maps, surveys, etc.''Chapter VIII. Discharge observations.''Chapter IX. The silt carried in the water of the Helmand River.''Chapter X. The volume available for the irrigation of the delta: the duty: the culturable area that could be brought under command.''Chapter XI. Probable rates of work if canals are made.''Chapter XII. Irrigation works suitable to the circumstances of the people.''Chapter XIII. Works required to gain complete control of the river for the irrigation of the delta.''Chapter XIV. Probable cost of, and income, and percentage of profit from the irrigation works.''Chapter XV. Drainage scheme for the inundated area.''Chapter XVI. Schemes for utilising some large depressions either as escape, or impounding reservoirs.''Chapter XVII. Impounding reservoirs in the trough of the Helmand: control of the floods by works in the catchment area.'Appendices:'Appendix 1. The Hazarajat and the country drained by the Farah Rud and Harud Rud.''Appendix 2. The trough of the Helmand River below Kala-i-Bist.''Appendix 3. Detailed measurements of depths of water evaporated in Seistan.''Appendix 4. Extracts from "The Irrigation of Mesopotamia" by Sir William Willcocks, KCMG.''Appendix 5. Comparison of rates at Quetta with these on the Chenab and Jhelum Canals.''Appendix 6. Rates of cost and of income on the Punjab Perennial Canals.''Appendix 7. The manufacture of lime at the Consulate, Seistan.''Appendix 8. Details of the cost of the work on the buildings erected by the Imperial Bank.''Appendix 9. Note on lime, bricks and stone for large works in Seistan.''Appendix 10. Comparison of rates likely to obtain in Mesopotamia with those in Egypt by Sir William Willcocks, KCMG.''Appendix 11. Note by W A Johns, Esq., Railway Reconnaissance Officer, on the cost of excavating in the hard Seistan clay, and driving tunnels or kariztherein.''Appendix 12. On the cost of excavation in the culturable soil of the delta and in the hard tough alluvial of the high plateaux or dasht.''Appendix 13. The meaning of the words clayand silt.''Appendix 14. Dates on which the Sar-i-Shela flowed in 1903.''Appendix 15. Expenditure incurred on the Irrigation Party.''Appendix 16. List of maps and sections packed in a tin lined case and filed in the Foreign Office, Simla.'Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 248; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.The volume contains a higher than usual number of blank pages, which may have been the result of a printing error.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Rivers
Waterways
Irrigation - Geographic region:
- River Helmand
Seistan - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000b1_ar
81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000b1_en
IOR/L/PS/20/256
IOR/L/PS/20/256