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Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [125r] (250/669)
The record is made up of 1 file (332 folios). It was created in 29 Jul 1942-9 Feb 1946. 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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the following day for ^ultanahad.
(13) Aghai Hussain Hishmat ^ani’ee, G-overnor of Ahv/az, left
for Tehran on 15th Reptetnher on the abolition of the Farmandario
(14) Raid Asadullah Besharat arrived in the first 7 /esk of
September to take ever the vacant office of Director Iranian
“■^tate RcfiLway (southern Div.)
(15) A new Parmandar, Sarhang (retired) Qanim Alarair,
Salar Ashraf, has been sent to Khorramabad. H.M*Consul-General
has not yet met him, but has received messages of goodwill from him.
Ill* General .
(16) With reference to para 18 of the last diary, the
proposal to abolish the Ustandari appears to have been dropped.
1 The Farmandar states that he received a telegram on 13th
September directing him to report to Tehran as the Farmandari
had been abolished.
-(i?) Rome adverse comment has been heard on the conduct
of 0 arhang Purastegar, the O.C. gendarmerie, who is reputed
to hav'e taken himself off to Luristan with the knowledge that a
crisis in Arab affairs in the southern part of the district wag
impending and stayed away until the trouble was over.
(18) The Governor-General has expressed some surprise that
General Jehanbanidid not wait an extra day in Ahwaz for his return
to discuss the problems of Khuzistan. Less disinterested persons
like Aghai Nasseri, the Ahwaz deputy, have held mild indignation
meetings on the same subject.
(19) Y/ith reference to para 14 of the diary for the first .
half of June, the Electric Guppiy Company has now succeeded in
putting one engine in order and proposes to supply current from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m. It remains to be seen whether to Governor-
General will be able to resist pressure to pay the share-holders
of the Spinning
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
for failure to maintain their power plant
at the expense of consumers of electricity in the town*
IV. Economic .
( 20 ) The Governor-General and the Municipality continue to
supervise the baking and sale of bread. The results are at any
rate good enough to prevent any serious grumbling.
(21) Deliveries against undertakings have fallen off badly and
only about 160 tons have been delivered in the last fortnight.
'ftib amounts outstanding in the "landlords areas”—with the
exception of Dlzful—were negligible and may well represent
assessments that were unduly severe or the owner felt he was
sufficiently inaccessible or unimportant to escape penal action by
the authorities.
(22) The "sealing" of Ahwaz town-~comp&re para 13 of the last
’.',3 diary—has good results, reinforced as it has been by a measure
of control of river traffic passing down the Karun. In fact the
amount of wheat confiscated as it was surreptitiously introduced
into the town has been inconsiderable and does not exceed 30 tons*
The indirect results have been more important. The local Arab**, for
example, clearly believed that the sealing of the town wap merely
a routine measure for increasing the emoluments of the petty
/on to official, the cost of which could easily be passed/the would-be
hoarders among the middle-class townspeople, and did not at first
find the terms offered under the sugar barter scheme sufficiently
/attractive.
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Consular diaries detailing affairs in Ahwaz [Ahvāz], Persia [Iran]. The diaries were submitted on a fortnightly basis by the British Consul at Ahwaz, although for some periods they were submitted monthly. The diaries cover the period of the Second World War and the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran, beginning in August 1941. Subjects covered in the diaries include: the actions of the local Persian administration, including the movements of local Persian officials; the economic situation, including agricultural production, harvests, irrigation, food supply and prices; tribal affairs in the surrounding region, with frequent reference to the Bakhtiari, Kughilu (also spelt Kuh Galu) and Arab tribes, tribes in Luristan [Lorestān], and their relations with the Persian authorities; the movements of foreigners; internal security; public health; local politics and elections; communications, including roads and railways; meteorological observations; British interests, including the movements of British officials and British subjects; Soviet interests; propaganda and public opinion.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (332 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 334; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:234v, 236r:333v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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