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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [41r] (86/168)
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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73
winter, and includes lar^e numbers of negroes and Arabs,
2 aio a few Hindu traders from India.
Thp increase in the summer is due to the influx o . a
. Th of the population of Bandar Abbas and Qisbm
ff J due to the large demand for labour required in the
J laltfonfand ?o the seventy of the hot season ana
Lkof water in the above mentioned P^ 68 - ^ ea
proportion of the real inhabitants are immigrants from Lar,
Jahriim and Bahrein, who have settled permanently
Ifinab. The Hindus are chiefly Hyderaba^ families f
Bandar Abba*, who own extensive property and are Bntis
The inhabitants of Ahmad! number some 1,000 families. Rohgions.
Religions. —Persia is the great centre of the SK’ah sect
of Mahomedans, as Turkey is that oj the Sunms ^nce
there is constant antagonism between the two, no religion
being so objectionable to the Persian as the Sunni creed.
The othei sects of Mahomedans in Persia are
Sufis. —A small sect. Their learning, pMosopM
acumen and sscetie self-sacrifice give them an impoit.
and influence out of proportion to their numbers.
Zoroastriani (Parsis) or followers of the doctrines of
Zoroaster, tho prophet of Iran. His teachmg empha-
sized purity, monotheism, keeping earth, re , ‘ ,
un'lefiled, care of useful animals, abhorrence 0 a j 1 1 \
resurrection and future life, towards w 110 ' ^
thoughts, words and deeds will alone be in er •
They have places of worship known as fire temp es.
dead are disposed of by being exposed m
silence till all the flesh is devoured by carnivorous m s.
The religion prevailed in Persia until the Ara > in\asion.
Mbis .—Followers of Mirza Ali Mahomed and dating
from 1844. They pretend to play no political part,
but in reality Babism has become more of a political mme-
roent than a religion. The Babls are loathec n o ier
Persians and in consequence would prove useful as agents.
The tenets of Babism are no clergy, no prayers, only g-
matic belief in God and His manifestations, whether by
Zoroaster, Moses, Jesus, or Baba’Ullah.
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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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