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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [218v] (441/610)
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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402
No. 113. MUSTAFA KHAN SARTIP.
An influential landowner of the Afshariyeh district.
No. 114. SALAR MANSUR. Mlrzd Ghaffar Khan.
He was concerned in the constitutional movement and after
the bhah’s coup d’etat of June 1908 he fled to Europe where
ne visited Professor Browne. On his return he joined the Muja
hidin who accompanied Sipah Salar in 1909 and deposed
Muhammad AH Shah. In 1911 he was with the notorious
urdu-i-barg ” which went to Mazandaran after the flight of
the ex-Shah from Savad Kuh. He has been in the lucrative
employ of Sipah Salar and has leased some of his estates around
Kazvm. He has some influence in local politics and is a great
friend of V usucpul-Islam (No. 123). He is an engaging personal-
ity, at times frank and a clever intriguer.
No. 115.
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.
MUFAKHAM, Akbar Mlrzd.
Former title Bishdrat-us-Sultaneh.
Son of Muhammad Mehdi Mirza and brother of Bisharat-ud-
Dauleh, the Chief of telegraphs in Kazvin. Born about 1865.
His family have made money out of employment in the
telegraph administration. In 1909 he went with Sipah Salar’s
Mujahidin to Tehran and was made Under-secretary for Posts
and Telegraphs. He has remained a dependant of Sipah Salar
and in 1918 with some partners was farming Sipah Salar’s
Kazvin estates and profited by the famine prices which
prevailed at the time. He owns the best house and garden in
Kazvin and some property in the South of the province.
He was elected second deputy of the Majlis for Kazvin in
January 1919 and in the autumn went to Tehran. In politics
he is a 1 moderate ’ (itidali). He is a frail old man, said to be
addicted to opium. He professes friendship for us.
No. 116.
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.
SA’ID. Muhammad All Khan.
Born about 1870. He is hereditary chief of the Rashvand
tribe of Rudbar and Alamut and possesses several villages,
partly hereditary, partly acquired, in the former district. He
is connected by marriage with Amir Asad (No. 56).
He usually Jives_ in Rudbar at a house called Sar-i-Amarat
by the village of Razmian in the Naim Rud ravine about 1 mile
above Shahristan (see Chapter X, para, (c) Elburz routes No. 8)
1 For political parties sec Chapter V, Administration, p. 280.
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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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