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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [153v] (311/610)
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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capital was ' expended on construction. The Company’s in
come was derived from tolls levied on vehicles and animals
using the road.
As in the case of the Russian Bank the Russian Govern
ment always afforded the strongest support to the company.
Its head office was at Moscow, and its Persian office at
Kazvin.
In 1918 in consequence of the extension of the British line
to Hamadan, Kazvin and Enzali, the G. 0. C. of the British
Forces in N. W. Persia found it necessary to exercise a certain
control over the traffic, and later to take over the work of cur
rent repairs for account of the company. The ordinary manage
ment of the road and collection of tolls remained with the
company.
3. Enzali Port Trust.—This trust was formed as a subsidiary
Company by the Russian Road Company which had obtained
a concession for dredging the mouth of the Enzali lagoon and
construction of breakwaters and lighthouses. Port dues were
to be fixed by a committee with a view to affording the Com
pany a net annual profit not exceeding 10 per cent.
The concession dates from 1895 for 75 years on condition of
maintaining the works in good repair. On expiry of the con
cession the works will become the property of the Persian
Government.
Durmg the British occupation of Baku the port was for a
time under British military control and in return certain pay
ments were made to the company.
The company has latterly been unable to secure a sufficient
revenue to meet the expenditure necessary for the upkeep of the
port.
4. Caspian Fisheries.—In 1873 the Russian firm of Liono-
soff Freres of Moscow obtained a lease of these fisheries from
the Persian Government. The lease was renewed at increasing
rentals in 1893 and again in 1896 for 20 years until 1925 at an
annual rental of 450,000 gold francs.
The South Caspian fishing properties included in this lease
extended along the whole of the coastline of Persia on the
Caspian from Astara to Atreka, the limits of Russian territory,
a stretch of about 600 miles. The firm built up a great industry
with numerous fishing Stations along the Gilan and Mazandaran 1
1 The fishing centres and operations will be described under para, (d),
pp. 293-5.
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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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- 'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)'
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- 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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