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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [172v] (349/610)
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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V.
310
Total number of camels converging on Tehran is estimated at about 10,000,
2,000 to 3,000 from Isfahan.
1,000 from Yaramin.
2,000 from Saveh.
4,000 from Azarbaijan and Khamseh.
(c) Mules and donkeys —
Estimate
of Nos.
2 Teliran
f 10,000
KLazvin >Elburz routes . 3,000
Zinjan J
Q 3,000
Tehran-Qum
700
Hamadan
4,000
(d) Ponies —
Rasht .
Enzall
Employed for local use and for
Lahljan
bringing produce into town.
Langarud .
Estimates of numbers impos-
Rudisar
> sible.
Amol
For transport in the Elburz and
Barfarush .
Caspian provinces, see also
Sari .
pages 423, 426-7.
Ashraf .
1 Number of camels in Isfahan area which may be attracted in the direction
of Tehran are estimated by the Mesopotamia-Persia Trading Corporation as :
From Kavand district ..... 4,000''i
„ Bulkhar and Murchikhar district . . 2,700 J
,, Aliabad, Zavare, Khalidabad, Mahabad, )» 12,700
Ardistan and Nain districts . . 5,000 I
,, other districts ..... 1.000 J
Number of animals starting each week from Isfahan towards Qum is estimated
at:—
camels
mules
donkeys
800'
50
50
in autumn'
and winter.
600')
150 Win summer.
100 J
200'i
150 Win spring.
100 J
s Pack transport from all Mazandaran routes except via Kandavan [see
Chapter X, para, (c), Elburz routes], emerges on to the Tehran-Damavand
road. The average numbers of animals passing the toll gates on this road in a
month in 1920 were as follows :—
^Damavand to
Tehran.
Tehran .to
Damavand.
Ponies
and
Mules.
Donkeys.
Ponies
and
Mules.
Donkeys.
January and February (each
3,100
3,400
2,000
1,900
month).
March, April, and May (each
6,100
4,800
3,300
2,200
month).
June and July (each month)
2,200
2,000
1,700
1,700
July to December (each month)
6,000
4,500
3,600
2,400
Practically no wheeled transport uses this road.
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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.
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- 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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