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‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’ [23v] (51/154)
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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34
On the North and South sides of the town the gardens
and suburbs stretch out for several miles. There are about
five good qanats (underground water channels) near the
town. The town is commanded by the hills on the West,
from which it is separated by a river bed which is usually
dry, but which comes down in spate after heavy rain. The
surrounding country is very fertile with a large number of
qanats and has plentiful supplies of grain, live stock and
fruit.
In 1919 an extensive cantonment with many stone build
ings was constructed outside the city on our Line of Com
munications.
Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam .—A large village of some 3,000 in
habitants, which is the headquarters of the Jam district.
Annual grain supply upwards of 20,000 Indian maunds.
Turshiz (Sultanabad).—Elevation 2,209 feet. A walled
town of about 12,000 inhabitants in the fertile district of
the same name.
Water is plentiful and supplies estimated sufficient for a
Division.
The chief industry is the manufacture of carpets.
Trade with Soviet Russia in dried fruit is now (1930)
completely at a standstill, which has resulted in considerable
poverty among the population, who in former years derived
a large proportion of their incomes from this export trade.
(5) Climate.
Khurasan has within itself every variety of climate and
ranges from a temperature of 10 ° Fahrenheit in the winter
to 110° in the summer. In the higher altitudes the cold is
intense. Notwithstanding this the climate is generally
salubrious.
Meshed has an excellent climate, which has an average
summer temperature of 92°. Nevertheless the town is con
sidered unhealthy owing to the fact that it is, in effect, one
large graveyard.
The rainfall averages 782 inches, excluding snow, of
which the average annual fall is about 18 inches. The
rainy months are March, April, November and December,
the spring fall being the heavier.
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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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- Title
- ‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:61v, 64r:67v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence