'Military Report on S. W. Persia, Volume IV. Kuhgalu Country'

Content

It consists of a military report on S W Persia, specifically Kuhgalu Country [Kūhgalū], created for the personal information of the officers of the Army in India. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India by Lieutenant A T Wilson, 32nd Sikh Pioneers. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1909.

It includes a preface by Wilfrid Malleson, Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch.

It is divided into the following sections:

• geographical – boundaries, river system, and mountain system;
• political – sub-divisions, relations with the Bakhtiāri and the British, genealogy;
• commercial;
• communications – possible routes;
• supplies;
• transport;
• climate;
• military capacity of inhabitants;
• routes – incorporating comments on the road, special obstacles, alternative stages and routes, and safety.

Also includes one map on folio 18: 'MAP to illustrate Military Report on S.W. PERSIA'.

Extent and format

1 volume (17 folios)

It is grouped into

'MAP to illustrate Military Report on S.W. PERSIA'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/10/4, f 18

Arrangement

The item consists of a single report and an accompanying map enclosed in a pocket on the inside back cover. A contents page at the front of the volume (f 5) references 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 19; 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/17/15/10/4

Former external reference(s)

P. 53. Con. No. 70

History of this record

Date(s)

1909-1910 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

ReportsMilitary intelligence

Places

Kuhgalu

People & organisations

Government Monotype Press, Simla, publishersGovernment of India, Deputy Quartermaster-General, Intelligence BranchDivision of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, IndiaBaḵtīārī (Tribe)

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