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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [220r] (444/610)
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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No. 126.
SARDAR
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
-I-KTJLL.
He is the eldest of the family, but owns no property in
Kharagan and has not much connection with the district.
He was “ rais-i-qushun ” in Khorasan in 1913 and for a short
while acting Governor General.
He was member of the 3rd Majlis of 1914 and went with the
Muhajirin to Qum and finally to Constantinople. He is friendly
with some of the Bakhtiari Khans, but less so than his brother
Saif-us-Sultaneh, and is believed to have gone to Gilan to
negotiate with Jangalis and Bolsheviks on behalf of Samsam-us-
Sultaneh in the early summer of 1920.
He was Governor of Gilan for a few months in 1916-17.
No. 127. SAIF-US-SULTANEH.
He holds the Governorship of Kharagan-i-Afshar, is head
of a “ fauj ” of the Qutalu district and has bought Haraiym
and some other property in the Bakishlfl He is a friend of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Asad Bakhtiari and has recently been to Kirman.
Other “ Khavanln ” of Kharagan are
Bakishlu.
Mansur-us-Sultaneh, head of ‘ fauj ’ of Bakishlu, lives at
Ghaleh-i-Afshar.
Mustafa Khan, Sartip, lives at Hajiabad.
Qutalu.
Shuja-i-Nizam, Muhammad Taqi Khan-1
SahLens-Sultan, Bnynkh Khan at Misrabad.
Hujabr-us-Sultan, Khan Baba Khan J
Sarijallu.
Ghulam Husain Khan of Avaj (or Aveh). _
Haji Yamin-i-Nizam, Ali Dad Khan of Mamyan.
Allah Vardi Khan of Haqan.
No. 128. AMIR NAS1R, Riza Qull Khan,
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
.
Born abort 1876. Son of Ahmad Khan Saif-ul-Mamalik, and
has a younger brother Ali Naqi Khan, Saif- ul-Mamalik.
He lives in Tehran and has a country residence at Chamarum,
in the Kuhpayeh district, about 12 miles North East of Nubaran.
He owns about 14 villages and is head of a family which have
been hereditary officers of the “fauj ” of Khalaj.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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