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Seistan; a memoir on the history, topography, ruins, and people of the country, in four parts, by G. P. Tate.

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AuthorTate, George P.Language(s)English PublishedCalcutta, Superintendent government printing, 1910-12. SubjectsSīstān (Iran) NoteIn four parts, paged continuously, v. [1] covering pt. I-III. Physical Description2 v. plates, maps, plans. 31 cm.

THE account of Seistan contained in the following pages has been based on actual observation and on information collected in that country during the sojourn of the Boundary Commission, under Sir Arthur McMahon, together with the result of many years of close study of the History of Khurassan. The object that has been carefully kept in view is to record information and the result has been that the report is longer than is usually considered to be neces- sary, as it was believed to be advisable to preserve information rather than to aim at literary effect. The traditions of the past are in danger of being lost, as there were in 1905 only one or two very old men who knew anything at all of these matters or who cared to preserve the knowledge. The population of Seistan is largely composed of tribes, or odd sections of tribes, who have migrated at a com- paratively recent dato into the country. These persons know nothing of the past history of the country and their struggle for a livelihood has rendered them detie a report hair been edition ing did moment of into fon aton comings will, for this reason, be regarded with leniency G. P. TATE.

The traditions of the past are in danger of being lost , as there were in 1905 only one or two very old men who knew anything at all of these matters or who cared to preserve the knowledge . The population of Seistan is largely composed of tribes , or odd sections of tribes , who have migrated at a comparatively recent date into the country . These persons know nothing of the past history of the country and their struggle for a livelihood has rendered them indifferent to all but the problems of their daily existence .     #11    

Tate, G. P. (1910 - 12). Seistan: a memoir on the history, topography, ruins, and people of the country, in four parts. Calcutta: Superintendent government printing. 

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Most Iranian areas have many names: Seistan also appears as Sistan, Sakastan, Sagistan, Sigistan ... The name supposedly derives from the Saka - an Iranian people from the region of the Aral Sea in Central Asia who (under pressure from other Iranian peoples further east) settled in the borderlands of what are now Iran (Baluchistan), Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were one of the many peoples once known to the Greeks by the general term "Scythians" - and are sometimes referred to as Indo-Scythians. Its the region once covered by the Achaemenid satrapy of Drangiana/ Arachosia.