'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎20r] (44/566)

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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'

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The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. 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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justifies them in their own eyes in fleeing from danger, both
physical and moral. Lord Curzon says that, while as individuals
they present many attractive features, as a community they are
wholly wanting in elements of real nobility or grandeur.
He offers the opinion, however, that history shows that their
irrepressible vitality, imitativeness and freedom from prejudice
or bigotry, hold out for the country possible chances of redemp
tion. One of the most apt illustrations of the Persian character
is furnished by General Dunsterville in “ The Adventures of
Dunsterforce/' when he says that though all Persians are
brought up on the wisdom of Saadi and other deep and attractive
thinkers—and there is not a problem in life that has not its
solution in their writings—they only quote, and are never
guided by, them.
Generally speaking, the inhabitants of the country may be classes,
divided into five classes :—the courtiers, nobles, large land-
owners and provincial governors ; the religious leaders ; the
merchants ; the artisans and shopkeepers ; and the peasants
and labourers. The strength of the nation lies chiefly in her
enterprising mercantile class, her ingenious and industrious
artisans and her hardy and laborious peasants. Men of humble
origin frequently rise to high position, a fact which, combined
with the brotherhood of Islam, has given rise to a strong
democratic instinct in the country. On the other hand, it has
also conduced to the toleration of a corrupt administration, as
every man has felt that it might be his turn one day to benefit
thereby.
There are no proper statistics of the numbers of the popu- Distribution
lation, but, as the normal annual increase is said to be less pQ pulation
than one per cent., the estimate made in 1910 of a total popu
lation of 10,300,000 is still generally accepted. The distri
bution of population varies greatly, depending mainly on the
water supply, the most thickly populated districts in 1914 being
Urmia and the Caspian deltas. Tehran and Tabriz, the two
largest towns, each had populations of over 200,000 ; Isfahan,
Kermanshah, Meshed, Kerman, Shiraz, Yezd and Khoi popu
lations of sixty to eighty thousand ; about fifteen other towns
had each over twenty thousand inhabitants ; and the largest
villages contained about three hundred houses, averaging four
or five persons to a house.
The aboriginal races number some seven and a half million, Races,
which include, besides the Persians proper who speak a modern
form of the ancient Indo-Germanic Persian language, about a
million Kurds, Laks and Lurs who speak various old Persian
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.

The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:

Chapter I: Introductory
Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
Chapter XI: Conclusion

The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:

1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
10. Shiraz (folio 194)
11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
14. Persia (folio 280)

The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).

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1 volume (279 folios)

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At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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.

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Title: 'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'
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