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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [174v] (353/610)
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
314
1. Abdul Maliki (Turk!).
Sections —
1. Faravand (about 150 families).
2 . Kalvand (
3. Shaikhvand (
4. Zainavand (
95 99 95 /*
„ 140 „ ).
„ 100 „ ).
Chiefs. —Hujabr-ud-Dauleh (Mirza Qasim Khan, see Chapter
IX No. 45). His brother, Bahram Khan, is an ignorant country
man and has little influence. Heads of sections are changed
from time to time and are of no importance.
Habitat. —Around western corner of Gulf of Astarabad
between Ashraf and Farahabad. They occupy four principal
villages of 100 to 150 houses each, viz :—
Zarghamarz (corner of Gulf near Caspian). Section 1 .
Husainabad ...... Section 2.
Amirabad ...... Section 3.
Zainavand ...... Section 4.
No. of houses 500 to 600.
Quota formerly furnished to Mdzandardn Army 100 sowars.
By origin they are a Qashqai tribe settled by Agha’Muham
mad Khan in Shahriyar, near Tehran, about 1790, moved in the
following year to Nur and Kujur, and to their present habitat
to oppose Turkoman raiders about 1850. According to their
tradition they then numbered 4,000 families, and have been
diminished to about 600 by the Mazandaran climate. They do
not intermarry with the Mazandaranis. They grow rice, cotton
and a little wheat and barley and are estimated to possess
about 8,000 head of cattle and ponies. Their chief Hujabr-ud-
Dauleh has considerable influence, was unfriendly to the
Russians, who supported a rival relation against him, and the
whole tribe are opposed to
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Jalil who has diverted the
water of the Nikah to his own property and so lessened their
rice cultivation. In 1918-19 Hujabr-ud-Dauleh with 100
sowars took the side of Amir Mu’aiyid against the
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
.
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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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