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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [250v] (505/610)
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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454
Between the coast and the hills dense jungle, thorns and
marsh alternate with clearings and rice swamps, and the tracks
through the sloughs of this region are execrable, and in wet
weather a'most impassable. Wherever there is a choice between
the beach and an inland route it is wiser to select the former.
Supplies .—The Caspian provinces are the most thickly
populated and productive part of Persia. Rice, fish, vegetables
and fuel are plentiful, but wheat and barley are imported from
the hills and are scarce.
Railways.
1. Tehran.—Shah Abdul Azim. ■ Length about 5 miles.
A Belgian Concern.
2. Basht. — Pir-i-Bazdr. A narrow gauge railway about
71 miles long, worked by Mr. Khustaria for traffic between
Rasht and Enzali via the Murdab.
There is also a line for carrying stone from quarries at Punal,
West of Enzali, to the edge of the Murdab, whence it is trans
ported by boat to Enzali.
Surveys have been made recently by British Concerns
interested in Persia with a view to a possible extension of the
railway from Quraitu to Ramadan and Tehran.
D—TELEGRAPH AND POSTAL.
Telegraphs.
Owing to her geographical position between India and
Europe, Persia is traversed from Julfa in Azarbaijan in
the North West to Kuh-i-Malik Siah in Sistan in the Fouth
East and Bushire in the South by grand trunk lines under
British management and worked by British staffs of the Indo-
European Telegraph Company and of the Indo-European
Telegraph Department. Awakened to the advantage of tele
graphs in a country where absence of roads and difficulty of
travelling makes postal correspondence slow and irregular, the
Persians also started an internal telegraphic system between
the principal towns controlled and worked by the Persian Tele
graph Administration. 1 Telegraphic communications are better
developed than any other form of communications in Persia.
1 The institution of telegraphs has had considerable political effect, aslhe
Persian Government is now able to keep itself informed of events in « he
provinces.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:301v, back-i
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