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Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ [195r] (400/1038)
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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been massacred* but I wouldn’t bet tnat one day there will
not be a nasty incident if tourists are encouraged.
the Mutewall! Bashl, or Shrine-keeper, Assadi,
is a former henchman of a aukat-ul-Mulk, rather a decent-
looking tall man in smart European clothes, we did not meet
him in toe shrine* but he was evidently curious to see us and
adopted the expedient of coming to the Hospital when he knew
we would be there. this hospital built out of shrine funds*
is going to cost the shrine a great deal to keep going, the
$ buildings are rather good and the garden is vast and ablaze
with flowers. W« saw several of the poorer patients* some
of whom have come in from the remote villages, there are
two German doctors at the head, keen and busy, but hampered
by the time it takes to get medical store© and the difficulty
of getting adequately trained nurses. We heard the usual
complaint that whenever the Persians have had about a
proper
quarter of their*training they think themselves completely
qualified. About one hundred and fifty beds are already in
use, but that is less than half what is intended. There
is an orphanage section in which the Shah is said to be
especially interested. The worst problem to be faced is
infantile mortality, and the women are very difficult to
manage as their religious scruples make them very ihy of
examination by male doctors. There is a great, deal of
consumption and venereal disease also to be combatted* The
hospital is a big effort and will have* 1 believe* a real
effect a® an example all over Persia} unhappily there is
no other town where the religious revenues are big enough
to be turned to such use, and what will happen here if the
official discouragement of religion goes much further/
Already the shrine revenues are not enough for its upkeep
and they are having to turn to fresh forma of municipal
taxation in order to add to the hospital’s revenues.] ® ow
/the
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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.
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- 1 volume (514 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 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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- Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’
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- 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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