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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [196v] (397/610)
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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No. 6. ’AIN-UD-DAULEH, Sultan Abdul Majid Mirzd.
Bom about 1847. He is a Kajar, grandson of Fath All Shah
and son-in-law of Muzaffar-ud-Din Shah. His only son he has
disinherited. He held many provincial governorships under the
old regime and in 1906 was created Atabak-i-A’zam. The
popular agitation which marked the beginning of the Constitu
tional movement in Persia was directed against him, and on 29th
July 1906 he was dismissed from office and retired to Khorasan
until 1908, when Muhammad Ali Shah sent him against the
Revolutionaries in Tabriz. Sattar Khan and his confederates
with the aid of Messrs. Moore, an English newspaper corre
spondent, and Baskerville, an American missionary, defended
the town against him until the siege was raised on the arrival
of Russian troops.
He was Minister of the Interior in 1910, 1913 and 1915,
Prime Minister from April to June 1915, and for a short while
in 1917. In 1919 he was sent as Governor General to Azarbai-
jan, where he was flouted by the Democrats who eventually
forced him to leave Tabriz. He is an old man and this episode
has presumably ended his public career.
He is an old fashioned grandee of theFarman Farma (No. 10)
Sipah Salar (No. 31a) school, of fair capacity, very corrupt and
full of intrigue.
No. 7. AMIN-UL-MULK, Dr. Ismd’il Khan. See No. 69.
No. 8. AMIR-I-NIZAM. Husain Quli Khan.
Eldest son of the late Amir Nizam, Haji Abdullah, nephew
on his mother’s side of Amir Afkham (Zain-ut-Abidin Khan),
chief and landowner of the Qaragazlu district of. Hamadan,
and brother of
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.
Akram, Mansur Ali Khan, landowner
of Hamadan.
He owns estates in the Hamadan province in the vicinity of
the Hamadan—Kazvin road about 38 miles from Hamadan,
was educated in England and speaks English and French. He
was Governor of Kirmanshah in 1919, and Minister of War in
Sipahdar’s Cabinet November 1920, his first political appoint
ment. He has a reputation for integrity and straight dealing.
Is pro-British.
No. 9. ARFA’-UD-DAULEH. Prince Mirzd Rizd Khan.
Born about 1857. An employe of the Foreign Office. He
-accompanied Nasir-ud-Din and Muzaffar-ud-Din Shah on their
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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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