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‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’ [17r] (38/154)
The record is made up of 1 volume (73 folios). It was created in 1920-1931. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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CHAPTER II.
GEOGRAPHIC AND CLIMATE,
(A) Khurasan.
Khurasan is the largest province of Persia. The total
area is about 150,000 to 200,000 square miles. It is essen-
tially mountainous, but fertile and fairly welLwatered in
the north. Its northern boundary is the Russian frontier
east of the Caspian. To the east it marches with Afghan^
istan and Seisian down to Kuh-i-Malik Siah; thence to
Nasratahad Sipi, Deh Salm, Basiram/ Garmab, -Shaud Ali
Reza, Naihand, between Chehil Pai and Darband to Pusht-i»
Badam, thence northwards to near Abbasabad and follows
roughly the 06 th 'degree of longitude to-the Atrek River,
(1) Mountains.
The mountain system of Khurasan which forms a link
between the Elburz and the Paropamisus was in former
days of great military value to Persia as it formed a con
siderable obstacle . to the \ marauding hordes of nomads of
Russian Turkistan. It is made up of several parallel fridges
which flank the wide open valleys of Bujnurd, iRuchan and
Meshed. sThe northern portion resolves )itself into two
more or less parallel ranges, the most northerly of which,
although by far the lower, is.of the more importance.
This is the vertically scarped frontier barrier range which
runs in an almost uribroken'line from Gifan in the west up
to Sarakhs in the east. In most sections this range forms
the actual frontier and its cliffs, though seldom more than
500 feet high, are unschleable and hence have saved Persia
in the past from being overrun from Trans-Caspia by any
thing more than small raiding parties of Turkomans.
In the Gifan-Kaltachinar sector, this range, which is
known as the Gulul Dagh, ia high and rough but traversed
by a number of smugglers’ bridle tracks, in addition to
the metalled motor road from Askhabad to Kuchan vid
Bajgiran and a camel track (which is passable for wheels)
from Geok Teppe via Rohat-di-Khairabad to Shirvan.
West of Kaltachinar the frontier barrier range, in this
sector known as the Kizil Dagh and Zarin iKuh, becomes
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Military report on the Khurasan [Khurāsān] and Seistan [Sīstān] regions of Persia [Iran], with maps and illustrations. Produced by the General Staff, India, and published in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Government of India Press, 1931. Marked for official use only.
The report includes chapters on:
- a history of Khurasan and Seistan
- the geography of Khurasan and Seistan (mountains, rivers, deserts, an alphabetical listing of towns) and climate (including assessments of the health risks associated with both regions)
- population (religion, tribes)
- resources (including crops, grazing, fuel, transport, and a note on horses and mules in Khurasan)
- armed forces (including a description of the Eastern Division of the Persian military, an Order of Battle, organisation, armaments, equipment, clothing, rations, training)
- aviation (detailing the organisation, personnel, equipment, aerodromes, etc., of the Persian Air Force)
- administration (municipal, police, justice, department of public instruction, revenue, roads and communications, census, post and telegraphs, sanitation)
- communications (railways, roads, types of motor transport in use, principal routes used by travellers from Meshed [Mashad] to Russian territory, telegraphs, telephones, wireless)
An appendix includes a veterinary note on conditions in Khurasan and Seistan. The volume also includes four colour plates illustrating different badges associated with Persian army and police officers, and a number of maps and diagrammatic maps.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (73 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents page at the front of the volume (f 6) and index at the rear (ff 64-66) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 75; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- ‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:61v, 64r:67v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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