July 18, 2011

From an empire that was! A gazetteer of the territories under the government of the viceroy of India (1886)

from the GAZETTEEE OF INDIA:

BALOCHISTAN. --- A country of Asia contiguous to India. It is bounded on the north by Afghanistan, on the east by the Punjab and Sind, on the south by the Arabian Sea, on the west by Persia. Area, about 106,500 sq. miles ; being between lat. 24° 50'--- 30° 20', and long. 61° 10'--- 68° 38'. Towns, Khelat, whose Khan is the most powerful chief of the country ; and Quetta, a British cantonment.

Gazeteer presented to the University of Toronto Library, by the Ontario Legislative Library, 1980

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