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Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’ [232v] (475/1174)
The record is made up of 1 volume (583 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1930-1 Feb 1937. It was written in English, French and Persian. 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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those sitting 1 in the front row, but he is understood to have stated that the usually
accepted version of the poet’s life was almost certainly a complete fable (an
account of this version and of the doubts thrown upon it by Noeideke and other
scholars will be found in the eleventh edition of the Encyclodpedia Britannica).
Pie also drew attention to the need of a properly edited text and stated that this
task would be undertaken during- the year. Pie was followed by Doctor Isa
Sadiq, Principal of the Ecole Normale, who gave details of the lottery which has
been organised to raise funds for the millenary celebrations.
8. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Foreign Secretary to the Gov
ernment of India (No. 28) and to Plis Majesty's Consul-General for Khorasan
(No. 10).
Enclosure in Serial No. (33).
Extract from Heffer’s Catalogue.
Firdausi .—The Shah Nameh. Carefully collated with a number of the
oldest and best manuscripts and illustrated by a copious glossary of obsolete
words and obscure idioms, with an Introduction and Life of the Author and an
Appendix containing the Interpolated Episodes, etc., found in different manus
cripts. By Turner Macau. 4 Vols., octavo, calf gilt, neatly rebacked, tine tali
copy. £18.
(Calcutta, 1829.)
The best edition of the complete text of the Shah Nameh. The above is a
very good copy and is complete with Persian and English titles to each volume.
Copies in any state are rare, and seldom have all the titles as in this instance.
(34)
{Received under endorsement No. 34.)
Despatch from His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office,
London, No. 77, dated the 10th February 1934.
I have the honour to report, in continuation of my despatch No. 581 of
of December Pbth last (F. No. 80-N.|33), that Tehran is still completely
ignorant on the subject of the Bakhtiari ‘ plot ’ and of the fate of the ‘ plotters \
A few days ago I heard simultaneously that
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Assad had been shot and
that he was about to be set at liberty.
2. My German colleague tells me that he recently said to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs that he did not wish to enquire of him the facts regarding the
imprisonment of the Bakhtiari Khans but he did wish to know in what light the
Persian Government would like the matter to be represented to the German
Government. Kazemi, after an embarrassed silence said “it is the removal
of the last traces of feudalism ”.
3. From the Chief of Staff the Military Attache has gathered a rather
similar impression. Major Pybus asked General Nakhchevan with the naivete
which is permissible in dealing with that not highly intelligent man whether
other tribes than the Bakhtiaris had officially recognised tribal leaders like the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
and Ilbegi. The General replied that they had not and that was the im
portance of the Bakhtiari position ; he went on to suggest that the imprison
ment of the Khans, whom the Shah regarded as opposed to all progress in spite
of the tact that they are relatively civilised, was designed to test the strength of
tribal feeling and he left it to be inferred that if the reaction were sluggish the
next step would probably be the abolition of the posts of
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
and Hbegi fol
lowed by conscription and a complete absorption of the tribe in the ordinary
administration.
4. Meanwhile the arrests have extended to some of the Bakhtiari Khans
resident in Isfahan and in the Bakhtiari country itself. In addition Mr. Watkin-
son reported on January 16th, that Hormuz Khan, the bead of the Bakhtiari guard
at the oilfields and also the local land-agent of his brother-in-law
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Assad,
had been arrested and brought .to Ahwaz. His arrest followed a visit by
Murteza Quli Khan Samsam, the Ilbegi, who has been able to appoint a nominee
of his own.
5. The supposition that the intrigues of Murteza Quli Khan have been
responsible for the whole trouble has been strengthened by the dismissal of Amu
Mufakham from the post of
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
and by the fact that Murteza Quli Khan is
now both
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
and Ilbegi. He is thus able to retain, for the time being at
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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department) relating to Persia [Iran]. The original correspondence was exchanged between British representatives in Persia (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran), the Foreign Office, and the 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. . The correspondence concerns: the announcement by the Persian Government of laws, decrees, regulations, budgets, and other governmental communiqués, the texts of which were usually published in Persian newspapers (including Le Journal de Tehran , Shafaq-e-Surkh , Le Messenger de Teheran and Iran ); reports on provincial affairs in Persia, chiefly in the form of reports submitted by British Consuls; Persia’s foreign relations, particularly those with Soviet Russia [Soviet Union, USSR]; correspondence dated 1929 and 1930 reporting on events in northern Persia (Azerbaijan and Khorasan) where large numbers of Russian refugees settled in the wake of the October Revolution; copies of diplomatic exchanges between the British Legation in Tehran and the Persian Government, the latter represented by figures including the Persian Prime Minister Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Feroughi, the Minister of the Court of Iran Abdolhossein Teymourtash, and Hassan Ali Ghaffari of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the activities of the Shah, with a particular focus on his modernisation policies that were implemented across Persia during the 1930s.
A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Persian Government laws, Persian newspaper articles, and correspondence from Persian politicians. The file also includes a memorandum on the Persian renderings of ‘imperial’ that contains Persian text (ff 305-306).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (583 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 579; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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