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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [199r] (402/610)
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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and Russian lines. He was Prime Minister from March to April
1915, and from July to October 1920, when he resigned owing
to his refusal to dismiss the Russian officers from the Persian
Cossacks.
Mushir-ud-Dauleh is well educated, well meaning and intel
ligent, hut extremely timid and unpractical, and his up to date
paper constitutions on European patterns for Persian depart
ments have not proved a success. Like Mustaufi-ul-Mamalik
(No. 3) he has gained considerable influence owing to his career
as a Constitutionalist, and has a real reputation for integrity.
His weakness and timidity as Premier in 1920 disgusted the
British Legation, and the solution of the Persian question was
no nearer after bis 4 months’ tenure of office.
No. 18. MU’TAMAN-UL-MULK, Mlrzd Husain Khan.
Born about 1880. Younger brother of Mushir-ud-Dauleh
(No. 17). He was educated in France and afterwards went to
England, and speaks both languages. He was Minister of
Education and Public Works in 1908, and of Education 1909.
He was elected President of the 2nd Majlis in March 1911
in which position he showed great firmness and impartiality.
He was Minister of Public Works and Commerce in 1917,
Minister, without portfolio in the Cabinet of his brother
Mushir-ud-Dauleh in July 1920.
He is studious and retiring.
No. 19. NIZAM-UD-DAULEH. See No. 50.
No. 20. NUSRAT-UD-DAULEH, Firuz Mirzd,
G.C.M.G.
[Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade).
Born in 1888. Eldest son of Farman Farma. He was
educated at Bairut and in England and France where he is a
.member of the Paris bar. He speaks French fluently and
knows English.
He accompanied Farman Farma to Kirman in 1906 and when
his father was recalled to Tehran he became governor, but was
removed in disgrace in 1907 owing to some election troubles.
In 1912 he went to Europe and returned to Persia in 1915 and
became Under Secretary of Justice, a post which beretained while
his father was Premier in 1916. He was Minister of Justice
in Vusuq-ud-Dauleh’s (No. 34) Cabinet of 1916, Governor of
Hamadan and Kirmanshah for a short while in 1918 and then
Minister of Justice, afterwards of Foreign Affairs in Vusuq-ud-
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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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