'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.'

Content

The volume is entitled Military Report on Persia. Volume IV Part I. Persian Baluchistan, Kerman and Bandar Abbas. (Simla, Government Central Press, 1923). The volume was originally published in 1921.

The report contains sections on history, geography, population, climate and health, resources, military affairs, communications, and political matters. Appendices give the following information: details of nomad tribes of Kerman Province; a list of Chiefs and Headmen in Persian Baluchistan, who are in receipt of subsidies from the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD); statistics of natural resources; and distribution statement of the Sarhad Levy Corps on 1 July 1922. There are also seven maps (folios 75-81), entitled:

• Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. IV Part I.
• Kerman and environs
• Bandar Abbas
• Diagram of Mirjawa station yard
• Diagram of Duzdap station yard
• Signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar and Geh
• Sketch Map shewing communications between Kerman and Saidabad

Extent and format

1 volume (80 folios)

It is grouped into

'Map accompanying MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 75

'KERMAN and ENVIRONS'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 76

'BANDAR ABBAS'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 77

'DIAGRAM OF MIRJAWA STATION YARD M. 387.46.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 78

'DIAGRAM OF DUZDAP STN. YARD M. 439.8.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 79

'Signalling and Heliograph Posts between CHAHBAR AND GEH.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 80

'Sketch map shewing communications between KERMAN and SAIDABAD.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/1, f 81

Arrangement

Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 82; 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 volume 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/17/15/6/1

Former external reference(s)

P 12 205.XI.2

History of this record

Date(s)

1922-1923 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

BaluchistanKermanBandar Abbas

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