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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [74v] (153/610)
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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See Chapter VII, para. (c).
Up to 1914 Tehran had 3 banks, viz., the Imperial Bank
of Persia, the Banque d’Escompte de Perse (Russian) and
Tumaniantz bros. as well as very many local native Sarrafs.
The position of the banks and the de facto monopoly enjoyed
by the I. B. P. are described in Chapter VII.
The “ Sarrafs ” were compelled to stop business owing to the
cessation of commercial dealings and the debasement of the
rouble, and very few of them can now really meet their liabilities
in ready money.
2. Damavand.
General .—Population about 5,000. Elevation 7,500'. It is
situated in the district of the same name about 48 miles from
Tehran along the Eiruzkuh-—Mazandaran route in a fertile
depression in the hills with large orchards and separated
from the Larijan district of Mazandaran by the Imamzadeh
Hashim ridge.
Damavand mountain is 20 miles or more North of the town,
separated and hidden from it by this ridge and the Haraz
valley. The summer climate is temperate and the place is
becoming popular with Tehranis as a summer “ yailaq ” resort;
the winter is very severe.
Inhabitants .—The settled population of the town _ is all
Farsi (Persian), and fruit and walnut growing is their principal
industry.
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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.
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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 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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