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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [‎5v] (15/168)

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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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in 1909 tlie Shah abdicated his throne, being succeeded by
his son, Armad Mirza, a boy 12 years’ old. The ex-Shah
retired to Russia, a pension being allowed him by the
Persian Government. There was, hovfever, no improve
ment in the state of Persia and fresh disturbances broke
out everywhere, notably in Pars.
During 1911-12-13 several attempts were made by the
ex-Shah and his brother, Salar-ud-Douleh, to overthrow the
existing Government. These all ended in failure. These
disturbances, however, coupled with the attitude adopted
by Russia, who by the end of 1913, had on one pretext
and another sent some 14,000 troops into Northern Persia,
had brought Persia to the verge of ruin. Her treasury
was empty, she had no military forces available to suppress
disorders or to collect revenue, and there was no strong
public man to be found to direct efforts at reform. Most
of her troubles Avere ascribed to Russia, which had con
sistently thwarted every effort at reform ; but Great
Britain also incurred much odium for connivance.
During the Great War Turkish troops and German
agents entered Persia in order to cause further difficulties
for the British. Their efforts were unsuccessful, but they
had the effect of still further increasing the difficulties
of the Persian Government.
An additional danger arose early in 1920 from the advance
of the Bolsheviks to the borders of the old Tsarist
Empire in Trans-Caucasia and Turkistan. Their arrival
there was the signal for an attempt on their part to get
their agents into Persia, and also for a violent anti-Persian
campaign in the Bolshevik press. The general tenor of this
campaign was that the Persians must organise a revolution
and get rid of the Shah, and that, if they could not start a
revolution for themselves, then the Bolsheviks would invade
their country and do it for them. On the excuse of captur
ing the Volunteer Caspian Fleet which was interned at
Enzeli, the Bolsheviks in May, 1920 landed troops at that
port, got into touch with Kuchik Khan and the local Persian
revolutionaries, and commenced an advance on Tehran. The
Persian forces, backed as they were at that time by British

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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
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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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