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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [200v] (405/610)
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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in 1906. The Zill-us-Sultan left him practically all his property
to the exclusion of other members of the family, but Sarim-ud*
Dauleh made them considerable bequests.
He was appointed Minister of Public Works and Commerce in
Farman Farma’s (No. 10) Cabinet in 1915, of Foreign Affairs
in Sipah Salar’s (No. 31a) Cabinet in 1916, Governor of Isfahan
in 1917, Minister of Finance in Vusuq-ud-Dauleh’s Cabinet
February 1919.
He was second member of the triumvirate in Vusuq-ud-
Dauleh’s Cabinet (i.e., Vusuq-ud-Dauleh, Sarim*ud-Dauleh, and
Nusrat-ud-Dauleh), but resented the Premier’s dictatorial
attitude and assumption of control over departments to the
detriment of the Minister’s authority, and was expelled from
the Cabinet in April 1920 for intriguing against him. He used
the name of the Sipahdar (No. 31), but the latter had little
part in the intrigue.
He is now (November 1920) Governor of Kirmanshah and
Hamadan. Sarim-ud-Dauleh and the sons of the Farman
Farma (No. 10) are the prominent young politicians sprung from
the Kajar family, and like them he is associated with the British.
They are influential but distrusted by the people.
He speaks English and French fluently, is extremely pleasant
mannered, clever, and ambitious, and if he can succeed in
living down the odium of matricide and be less rapacious he
might have a big career.
No. 26.
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.
ASAD, BAKHTIARI, Ja’far Qull Khan.
Born about 1882. Eldest son of the late
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.
-i-Asad
Haji Ali Quli Khan, who led the Bakhtiaris to Tehran in 1909
against Muhammad Ali Shah, and nephew 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.
Zafar
(No. 30).
Ja’far Quli Khan took a prominent partin operations against
Arshad-ud-Dauleh who led Muhammad Ali’s troops along the
Meshed road against Tehran in 1911 until defeated and captured
at Imamzadeh Ja’far near Varamin, and also against Salar-ud-
Dauleh in the same year. In these operations he showed
military capacity and courage. In 1918 he was Minister of
Posts and Telegraphs in Mustaufi-ul-Mamalik’s Cabinet and
afterwards went to Sultanabad as Governor of ’Iraq. In
1919 he was appointed Governor General of the province of
Kirman.
He is the most prominent member of the younger generation
of Bakhtiari Khans, and is well educated and more enlightened
than the last generation in general. He is very capable, though
somewhat conceited, and has considerable influence over the
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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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