The second volume of reports produced by the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Publication statement: Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906.
The commission, under the direction of Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, was to redefine the frontier between Persia and Afghanistan in the south, and develop a formula for the division of the Helmand waters. The report consists of a general description of the region, and specific notes on ethnography, meteorology, agriculture, industry, and hydrology.
Comprising appendices on the following:
• statistical tables
• copy correspondence between the British, Persian and Afghan Commissioners
• genealogical trees and tables
• meteorological data
• notes and memoranda on aspects of Seistan geography, ethnology, hydrology, industry,
economy, agriculture, botany, entomology, and transport infrastructure
• glossary.