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Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ [501r] (1014/1038)
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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SIviTo t2TZ °f "i 1 ! ll i kuKhlav^wa, ptticulariy ZtedT/tS
Turkoman countrv the admira We obedience shown m this respect in the
lur oman countiy. (His Majesty was doubtless unaware that the 600 odd road
wkers discreetly placnd on view m that district had received their last pay In the
fir i *1 S0 — ier w } 10 fiad redeved them of their hats and of a few krans giving
akulah rahlav! m exchange.) Opinion is general that Asadi, the Mutwalli Bashi,
who i is knov, n co\ets the post, stands a very good chance of supplanting Jam as
Governor-General. &
259. Tim Shah visited the Shrine in the morning of the 15th November and
then left for Turbat-i-Haidari with his Tehran escort and w r ith twenty soldiers of
the Eastern army.
260. Before leaving with His Majesty, Teymourtache, who is due to return to
Meshed from Turbat-i-Haidari, received separately the staffs of the consulates in
Meshed. Full reports are circulating of his conversation with the Bolsheviks. It is said
that Batmanoff asked for an interview with the Shah which was straightway refused,
that he brought up the question of his courier service to the Russian frontier, and was
told to refer the matter to his Legation in Tehran and that the Minister of Court
promised to accept and enquire into a list of traitors to the Bolshevik regime who
were sheltering in Persia. It is impossible, however, to put much faith in reports
of this nature or to imagine that to the Bolsheviks Teymourtache was other than he
was with the members of this consulate-general—an extremely agreeable and impres
sive discurser of mundanities. Certainly, keen ears in an adjoining room and
through the burble of pleasant conversation with Jam could detect nothing but a note
of loud cordiality throughout the Bolshevik interview.
261. It is 'stated that the Shah has ordered a girls’ school to be opened m
Meshed. There are already two in the town. T
262. His Majesty presented the lands of Shahan Garmab, a hot spring
possessing miraculous healing properties, 14 farsakhs to the south-east of Meshed, to
the Bed Lion and Sun Society of Khorasan He also gave 100
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
to the woman
in charge of the orphanage (a large building outside the town walls to the south
erected by Asadi the Mutwalli Bashi), 100
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
for prayers for himself m the
Shrine and 100
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
for division among the road sweepers employed for is
reception.
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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)
- 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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- 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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