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Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ [113r] (236/1038)
The record is made up of 1 volume (514 folios). It was created in 17 Feb 1931-27 Apr 1938. It was written in English and French. 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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that this hears much more heavily on provincials than on the
capital* fh#ro is a system of asasaeiaont on pro vino ial osn.ree,
an^i if the levying* of the legal araounts aoes not produce this
sum, extra levies would no doubt be imposed* As a good deal
of this revenue goes to embellishing the capital, or to in
creasing in us trial and coramcrcial activity at the centre at
the expanse of the provinces, it is not surprising that dis
satisfaction with tha regime should be more acute in the pro
vince e than in Tehran*
As regards the rom^rks on officials' pro-Eussian
proclivities, there sun be no doubt that the Russians arc
very active in Meshed which has always been a so one of Russian
influence, and that tbo present Governor-General, formarly
Persian Ambassador in Uosoow, is now, poaeibily for paoaniary
reaeons, on taros of olosa iatimaoy with ih® aoviot Ooneul-
(steneral*
B # ihe last paragraph of ado no 1 lily’s appreciation
raises the interesting question of the probable attitude to-
wards the regime of the fles toruiesd younger ganerafion.
Colonel fialy f«chsB rather further a point **ds recently by
His Majesty's Consul at flehris, namely, that in Zriw, unlife
j other totalitarian countries, little trouble is t>iXon to
1 associate the people as a whole with reforms or changes which
indeed, are recognised in Persia to be due to the single
of the Shah. Colonel Paly suggests that there ia now a risia
generation of young men who feel that these changes ought to
Will the good fairies "wise ,
/* Courage*
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Correspondence and reports submitted by British officials in Persia [Iran], along with newspaper cuttings collected from the British and Persian press, relating to the Shah of Persia, Reza Shah Pahlavi. Subjects covered include:
- The Shah’s tours and visits around Persia, including to the towns and cities of Sistan [Zabol], Bushire, Shiraz, Meshed [Mashhad], Kermanshah, Tabriz, Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
- Reports of economic and political conditions in Persia.
- The first Minister of the Persia Court, Teymourtache [Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh], including his dismissal by the Shah in 1933, and his subsequent trial, imprisonment and death.
- Speculation over the health of the Shah.
- Treatment of the Bakhtiari tribes by the Shah and his Government.
- The Shah’s programme of modernisation in Persia, including the enforcement of European hats for men and unveiling of women, military reforms, and schemes for urban development.
- A rebellion and massacre at the Goharshad shrine in Meshed in July 1935, provoked by a backlash against the Shah’s modernising tendencies. Papers include a secret report written by the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan, Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly (ff 218-222).
Principal correspondents in the file include: the British Legation at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare; Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; Nevile Montagu Butler); the Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran (Victor Alexander Louis Mallet); the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan (Daly).
Newspaper cuttings from the Persian press are written in French.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (514 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 510; 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 front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present in parallel between ff 222-510 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:6v, 8r:43v, 45r:144v, 148r:180v, 182r:182v, 185r:232v, 235r:242v, 244r:248v, 250r:304v, 309r:312v, 316r:319v, 321r:324v, 326r:333v, 335r:343v, 345r:350v, 352r:354v, 356r:359v, 361r:377v, 380r:390v, 391v:394r, 395v:398v, 400r:401v, 403r:419v, 421r:431v, 433r:436v, 439r:493v, 495r:510v, iii-r:iv-v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence