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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [171r] (346/610)
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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Barfarush rates are lower than Enzall owing to lack of de
mand due to stagnation of trade and absence of any British
garrison and also to the great fertility and productiveness of
Mazandaran. Rates for Tehran and Barfarush are current
bazaar prices. Elsewhere they are those of British military
contracts which in order to secure certain delivery of large
amounts are for some articles slightly in excess of the bazaar
rates.
The great differences in the prices of the staple articles of
rice, wheat and barley in different localities are due to the cost
of transport.
Labour.
Rates for unskilled labour have risen by 1 100 per cent, to
200 per cent, of recent years, and in 1920 varied from 2 to 3
krans per day in the Caspian provinces and 3 to 5 krans on the
plateau. Natives of the former, however, are such lazy and
had workers that actually they prove the more expensive.
In the winter months the majority of the rural population
are unemployed and labour is very plentiful. It is scarcer
during the autumn ploughing and sowing season and very scarce
indeed, especially in the Elburz, in the harvesting and grass
cutting season from May to August. Skilled labour is bad and
expensive at all times and places. Carpenters are paid 8 to 12
krans per day, masons about 10, smiths and fitters 12 to 15.
1 Largely owing to the increase in price of wheat and harley (see above) and
decrease of population.
8 e.g., along the main Kazvln-Itasht road the C. Pi. E. Eorperforce estimated,
he could obtain up to 500 men at any spot required.
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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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