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‘Military report on Persia. Vol IV, part II. Fars, Gulf ports, Yazd and Laristan.’ [77] (87/206)
The record is made up of 103 folios. It was created in 1924. 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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The migration takes place twice a year, once up-country and
once down, and varies to the extent of very few days. About
the vernal equinox, or Nauroz, they commence to strike their
black tents and move slowly north ; they leave their northern
pastures rather before the middle of September, and come back
to their old camping grounds in the south. Their summer
quarters, known as Sarhad, are near the northern boundary
of Fars, west of Qumisheh and Yazd-i-Khast, and reach to the
eastern slope of the Kuh-i-Danna (the Kuhgalu tribes being on
the south-west of this range) ; their winter quarters are in the
Garmsir or hot regions of Fars, ranging from the vicinity of
Behbeban to near 1 ar, but never south of the range of mountains
bordering the coast-line, that is to say, generally, more than 40
miles inland as the crow flies.
_ The principal route is that adopted by the Barashfiri,
Kashkuh and others, who, coming from Behbehan and the
Mahur-i-MailaCun district respectively, strike the Bushire-
Shiraz post road in the neighbourhood of Kazarun and follow
the general trend of this route as far as Dasht-i-Arjan and Khan-
i-Zmian, whence they either proceed via Chehar-i-Eahdar, and
cross tue Shiraz plain to Jiyum and Baiza, or more direct to
Ardakan.
£rom the latter point they disperse by various routes to their
summer quarters. A few tribes previously used the Tang-i-
Allah-o-Akbar, north of Shlraz* but this is not usual now the
whole .t keeping well to the west of Shiraz. Tribes coming from
Galehdar, ' A lam arvdaeh t, Afzar, etc., generally pass through
Lnehar-i-Rahdar on their Way up-country.
It is rarely that the tlrehs change the course of their migra
tion and, any deviation from the customary lines being difficult
for the larger tribes, to block their upward path is not only the
easiest, but the most effective way of putting pressure upon any
particular tribe, or on the tribe as a whole.
The only divisions which are of any practical importance and
wmci! may become, on occasion, political entities are the Dara-
shuil, Kashkuli, Shishbuluki, and Farslmadan. The supp ort of
IllSLf ibeS ' or at lea8 t their neutrality, is necessary to any
The migration of the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
and his Amalch, or household
troops, is shown in Appendix D.
Generally speaking the downward migration of the whole IJ
converges on Baiza and Juyum to the north of Shiraz, and then
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Military report on Persia (volume IV, part II) covering Fars, Yazd, the Gulf ports and Laristan, dated 1922, and published by the Central Government Press at Simla in 1924. The report’s chapters cover:
- History , including a recent political history of Persia; military history; the Anglo-Persia War of 1856-57 (with sections on the battle of Khūshāb and the occupation of Bushire); a recent history of Fars; and operations at Bushire in 1918-19.
- Geography , with a general introduction and sections headed (a) Fars and the Gulf ports; (b) Yazd; and (c) Laristan. The section on Fars includes: descriptions of the Gulf Ports; a table listing the districts of Fars, with details of their boundaries, sedentary populations and administrative authority; details of the four principal rivers in Fars (the Khūr Khalīl, Rūd Shūr, Rūd Hilleh and Chāhkutāh); salt lakes in Fars; islands; principal towns; Bushire and its harbour, with details of harbour facilities (lights, buoys, pilots tugs and launches), landing places for troops, facilities in the town; minor ports. The sections on Yazd and Lariston contain details of the principal towns, with the latter section detailing harbour facilities and amenities at Lingeh [Bandar-e Lengeh];
- Population , or Ethnography , with sections headed (a) Fars and the Gulf ports; (b) Yazd; and (c) Laristan. The section on Fars contains descriptions (population, general character, tribal structures, agricultural activity) of the various nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes found in the various districts of the region. Brief sections on Yazd and Laristan are followed by an overview of the principal religions of Persia;
- Climate and Health , with a general description of the climate of southern Persia and sections headed (a) Fars and the Gulf ports; (b) Yazd; and (c) Laristan. The section of Fars contains details of the availability of drinking water for men and animals at Bushire. At the end of the chapter there is a description of the general medical conditions in Persia (drinking water, diseases) and a description of the medical dispensaries at Bushire and Bandar-e Lengeh;
- Resources , divided into sections on (A) supplies and (B) transport, and further subdivided into sections headed (a) Fars and the Gulf ports; (b) Yazd; and (c) Laristan. The section on supplies in Fars contains: details of the availability of a range of foodstuffs (including cereals, fruit, vegetables and meat), grazing, fuel (wood, charcoal), mills, storage of supplies, packing; a description of the general availability of supplies in principal towns, including Bushire. Transport lists the availability and characteristics of transport by mule, donkey, camel, cart and oxen. At the end of the chapter there is a veterinary note, detailing the prevalence of lameness and various diseases in livestock. A fold-out table (presumably Appendix F – see below) details the numbers of supplies and transport of agricultural produce available in the different regions;
- Military , including: a description of the Persian army; the numbers of available armed men in the different tribes of Persia; the South Persia Rifles; aviation facilities in Persia, an outline of the military ranks in the Persian army; military features (fortifications, guns) at Bushire and Bandar-e Lengeh; and additional notes on the migratory nature of the Qāshqaī tribe, and arms trafficking into Persia;
- Communications , including descriptions of the region’s railways, roads, telegraph lines, telephone lines, cables, and wireless stations;
- Political , including: a description of the administrative governance of Fars, Yazd and Laristan; coinage in Persia; weights and measures.
Appendices A to E are lists of the subdivisions or subtribes of: the Khamseh Arab tribes; the Bāserī tribe; the Bahārlū tribe; the Qāshqaī tribes; the Mamassanī. Appendix F, described on the contents page as a table of supplies and transport is presumably that included at the end of chapter 5.
The maps and plans, included at the end of the volume are: a general map of the area, a plan of Bushire, and a sketch map of the Khamseh tribe migrations. The plan of the customs wharf at Bushire and the sketch map showing Qāshqaī migrations are both missing from the volume.
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- 103 folios
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into eight chapters (labelled I-VIII), followed by five appendices (A-E), and finishing with five maps and plans, as set out on the volume’s contents page (f.3). Each chapter is arranged by a series of headings and subheadings. The volume also has an alphabetically arranged index (ff.85-95). The contents and index pages use the report’s pagination system.
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Pagination: The report has a printed pagination sequence. Page numbers appear at the top and centre of each page in the main body of the volume, and in the top-right corner of rectos and top-left corner of versos on the volume’s index pages.
Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top-right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last of the various maps and plans that are inserted at the back of the volume, on number 101. Total number of folios: 101. Total including covers and flysheets: 103. Note that the foliation sequence on the maps and plans does not follow the order that the maps and plans are listed on the volume’s contents page (f.3). Two of the plans and maps listed on the contents page are missing from the volume (Plan of customs wharf at Bushire, and sketch map showing Qāshqaī migrations).
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- ‘Military report on Persia. Vol IV, part II. Fars, Gulf ports, Yazd and Laristan.’
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- front, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:119, 119a:119b, 120:192, back-i, back
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