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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [10r] (24/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. 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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towards the rebellion of Muhammad All, the ex-Shah, and
their demand for the dismissal of Mr. Shuster in 1911, are
striking 1 instances of this Russian attitude which contributed
to the stifling of the embryo Constitutional 2 3 Government, and
further submerged the country in bankruptcy and chaos. The
high-handed behaviour of Russian consuls, their humiliation of
and interference with Persian officials, and more especially
the license enjoyed and abused by their Persian agents and
Persians under Russian protection, many of whom were notorious
scoundrels, were a source of constant irritation to Persians in
the provinces.
By playing the part of a big bully Russia earned the
intense dislike of the Persians, but when they enlarge on these
political grievances it should not be forgotten that the great
expansion of the export trade to Russia was due to Russian
enterprise and development of communications, and that the
stimulus to increased production given by the demand for
Persian products, such as rice, cotton and dried fruits in Russian
markets, was a solid source of material prosperity to Northern
Persia. i
1 Gf. also Russian reluctance to take action in Persia in 1915 against Turko-
Gennan intrigue. The Russians would seem to have wished to let their enemies
have their fling with the idea that they might afterwards retaliate by conquer
ing the country.
3 Russian hostility to the Constitution was inspired by their prejudice
against a liberal movement, and also because they regarded the Persian
revolution as a British machination to overthrow the Russian position in Persia.
Russian treatment of Persia during the period is described below in para. 3.
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 303; 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 Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:301v, 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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