‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’

Content

Military report on the Khurasan [Khurāsān] and Seistan [Sīstān] regions of Persia [Iran], with maps and illustrations. Produced by the General Staff, India, and published in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Government of India Press, 1931. Marked for official use only.

The report includes chapters on:

• a history of Khurasan and Seistan
• the geography of Khurasan and Seistan (mountains, rivers, deserts, an alphabetical listing of towns) and climate (including assessments of the health risks associated with both regions)
• population (religion, tribes)
• resources (including crops, grazing, fuel, transport, and a note on horses and mules in Khurasan)
• armed forces (including a description of the Eastern Division of the Persian military, an Order of Battle, organisation, armaments, equipment, clothing, rations, training)
• aviation (detailing the organisation, personnel, equipment, aerodromes, etc., of the Persian Air Force)
• administration (municipal, police, justice, department of public instruction, revenue, roads and communications, census, post and telegraphs, sanitation)
• communications (railways, roads, types of motor transport in use, principal routes used by travellers from Meshed [Mashad] to Russian territory, telegraphs, telephones, wireless)

An appendix includes a veterinary note on conditions in Khurasan and Seistan. The volume also includes four colour plates illustrating different badges associated with Persian army and police officers, and a number of maps and diagrammatic maps.

Extent and format

1 volume (73 folios)

It is grouped into

‘Index Map to the Military Reports and Route Maps of Persia.’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 4

‘Plate I. Showing Officers Badges of Rank on Shoulder Straps (Field Service Order) with Colours of Branches of Service.’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 62

‘Plate II. Plate showing Badges of Rank of Non-Commissioned Officers. Field Service Order.’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 1

‘Plate III. Plate showing Pattern of Numerals as worn on Shoulder Straps of Regiments’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 2

‘Plate VI. Plate showing Badges of Rank of Police Officers.’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 63 3

‘Map of Sinkiang (Chinese Turkistan) To Accompany Military Report, 1929.’

4 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, ff 68-69

‘Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. I’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 70

‘Diagram of Mirjawa Station Yard’

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Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 71

‘Diagram of Duzdap Stn. Yard’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 72

‘Mechanical Transport Chart. Passable normally to M.T. (i.e. up to 3 Ton Trucks in winter and 5 Ton Trucks in summer’

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Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 73

‘Duzdap to Meshed Motor Road. (As Organised as a Line of Communication in 1919-20.)’

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Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 74

Arrangement

A contents page at the front of the volume (f 6) and index at the rear (ff 64-66) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 75; 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.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7

Former external reference(s)

P-11 T 421/1 30143/M. O. 3-Books 205=X1-2

History of this record

Date(s)

1920-1931 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Military uniformsSurveysImperialismMilitary intelligence

Places

KhurasanMeshedSeistanPersiaDuzdap

People & organisations

Persian ArmyGeneral Staff Branch, India

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