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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [254v] (513/610)
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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462
Present organi*
sation.
the following year the service was extended to connect all the
principal towns in the provinces with Tehran, and on the 1st
September 1877 Persia became a member of the International
Postal Union.
Until 1901 the posts were farmed out for £12,000 per annum,
but in 1901 the farming system was abolished and the posts
were placed under Belgian control.
The posts are now managed by the Minister of Posts, and
Telegraphs who is a member of the Cabinet. He is assisted
by a Belgian, X M. Molitor, with the title of Director General,
who is under the orders of the Minister, and is statione m
Tehran.
He has no Belgian assistants and the StaS are all Persian.
Like the Telegraphs the postal revenues exceed expenditure
and it is one of the few Persian Government departments show
ing an annual profit.
In each of the provinces a ‘ Chief of Posts ’ is appointed,
who is subordinate to the Director General in Tehran.
Post offices and branches in the whole country axe reported
in the annual statistics to number 202, and the mileage traversed
by the postal services to approximate 12,000 miles.
The services are, however, extremely limited and only
serve the towns and the larger villages on the. routes between
them. With few exceptions there are no posts into the country
districts and, as in the Empire of the ancient Medes and Persians,
letters can only be sent by special 2 messengers or by 3 mule
and camel-men travelling along the trade routes.
Along the carriageable roads the mails are despatched in
‘fourgons’, 4 wheeled wagons, which change horses at the post
houses and average 80 to 90 miles per diem, elsewhere they are
carried on pack animals and in a few cases by courier, with an
average rate of transit of 20 to 30 miles a day. ^
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:301v, back-i
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