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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [143r] (290/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. 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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The rates of pay are as follows in brans per month.
Swedish Commandant
3,000
Other Swedish officers
1,500
Naib Sarhang
1,500
Yarvar .
1,200
Sultan I
900
Sultan II
650
Naib I .
500
Naib II .
400
Aspirant I
320
Aspirant II .
230
Aspirant III .
220
Vabil I .
120
Vabil II
100
Vabil III
80
Sar-i-jugheh .
60
Tabin I .
60
Tabin II
50
Tabin III
35
The Swedish officers, in addition to the above rates of pay
get free quarters, free servants, free fuel ard light and free
horses.
All other ranks receive 16 sirs of wheat per day plus a money
allowance of 1 bran per man per day. On detached duty
the latter is paid to the men but at unit headquarters it is paid
into a messing fund from which the men are fed. Kitchens and
baberres are maintained by these units.
Men are housed in government barraebs where these exist,
as is the case in most places. Occasionally buildings have-
to be hired which are paid for from a supplementary budget..
54. The system of drill and training is Swedish the wrrd«™ „
of command being translated into Persian. Owing to road 18Cellaneous -
guard and similar duties which the force hi s to perform the
men get little training after they have done their recruits’
course. There is no regular system of musbetry training nor
any ammunition allowed for it. 6
Under its existing organization the force has acquired an
appreciable degree of efficiency and is probably the most useful
force, controlled solely by the Persian Government, which
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
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- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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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 303; 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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- 'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:301v, back-i
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