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‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’ [15r] (34/154)
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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Bampur and dispersed his men. A detachment o? 40
Persian regular camelry was detailed to garrison Khwash.
It had been Amir-i-Lashkar Jan Muhammad Khan’s
intention as soon as the Turkoman revolt had been sup
pressed to form a colony of Berberis in part of the Turko
man country, which would act as a sort of buffer state
between Turkomans and Meshed. A certain proposals were
made whereby about 3,000 Berberies were to be given land
free of revenue for 8 years. The Berberis themselves were
prepared to migrate and their Chiefs inspected the land
offered to them in November 1926.
The project was submitted to Tehran in 1927 and was
finally approved by the Shah in September 1928. At the
end of the year, the Yamut and Goklan Turkoman rebels
who had fled across the Russian border and the followers of
Salar-i-Jang began to return to Persia and their rifles were
returned by the Soviet authorities.
The discipline and general turn out of the men of the
Division greatly improved during the last quarter of the
year under Amanullah Mirza.
A Committee of officers was formed to enquire into
the budget of the Eastern Army which was considerably
reduced. At the same time the Division was reorganised
in 4 mixed regiments of all arms (cf. Brigade grotips) at
Meshed, Bujnurd, Birjand and Duzdap respectively.
In April 1927, the wireless station at Meshed which had
not been working satisfactorily since its installation was
handed over by the Military authorities to the Telegraph
Department.
In the same month the escort of His Britannic Majesty’s
Consulate-General was abolished and left for India. It was
replaced by Guards supplied by the Persian Army.
1928-29 .—The most noteworthy events in the Military
history of Khurasan during this period were: —
(i) The entry into Persian territory of Junaid Khan and
his followers, the attempts made by the Persian
Government to disarm him and his subsequent
march through Persia into Afghanistan.
■ (ii) The' subjugation of Persian Baluchistan.
Junaid Khan, the, Turkoman, outlaw in Soviet Turkistan,
who had been waging guerilla warfare with the Soviet since
1920 was finally defeated in the spring of 1928, and in the
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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.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:61v, 64r:67v, back-i
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