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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [5r] (14/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (80 folios). It was created in 1922-1923. 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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MILITARY REPORT
ON
PERSIA.
VOLUME IV FART I.
CHAPTER I.
History.
The following brief sketch of the more salient features ReC(mt politic*
of the political history of Persia during the past few years History of
will help to explain the present situation in that country.
By the beginning of the present century, the condition of
Persia, which for some years had been giving cause for
grave anxiety, had grown quite intolerable. The Shah,
Muzaffar-ud-Dln, was entirely in the hands of a corrupt
ring of courtiers, who were living on the spoils of the
Government and country. He had parted with the trea
sures inherited from his father and with most of the
imperial and national domains. He had thus been obliged
to have recourse to foreign loans, the proceeds of which
he had spent in foreign travel or had lavished on his
favourites. There was a yearly deficit and the debt of
the country was growing daily. Disturbances broke out
everywhere and the popular discontent was not appeased
until the Shah, in August 1906, had signed a decree
granting constitutional Government to the people. A
Majlis or National Assembly of 162 representatives of all
classes, elected by their peers, met in October of that year.
A few days later Muzaffar-ud-Din died. The new Shah,
Muhammad All, adopted a reactionary policy and made
every endeavour to crush the Nationalist movement.
Insurrections broke out in the principal cities and finally
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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)
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Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.
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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.
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- 'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:74v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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