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Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’ [65r] (129/224)
The record is made up of 1 file (110 folios). It was created in 7 Mar 1946-5 Feb 1948. 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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has yet/
gone to G-atch baran*
Muzaffar Ariya f i 7 Khosraw Alan^dt. Isfcanaar
Jharami an* Malik Mansour ^asht-Bavii Aave all bi.rne* a
ioc'Jinent swearing to consult one ancAirer ahd co-operate
in fill matters? especially in connection with their landss
and also to serve their Government and their country.
There appear to have heen two main ideas hehind this
exemplary document: (i) Malik Mansour thought it woul*
help him in getting hetter terms out of the government
and the oil company; "because hitherto »ne argument against
su;h help has "been that if Malik Manser is given any
thing the same must "be given t© Muzaffar Araya 5 i an*
ot^.er rivals: and (ii) Khosraw hopes to enlist the
support of the other three in his unending dispute with
hU half-hrother Abdullah Zarghampour,
Id, Khosraw ^oir Ahme*.i went to Tehran on the 20th
November on personal business and also to declare his
allegiance to the Government and his love for the
Denocrat nartyc
11; A small rai* "by Quli Khan Lirawi near Khairaha*
anc "Rehbehan early in November is reperteal by Khcsraw,
wh<se tribesmen were the sufferers; the assailants are
sa:d to have numbered about two hundre*.®
12, The Bahmei leader, Muhanma*. Ali Khalili, reports
a rai* by Na*er Quii (cousin of Abul-Qasem ^akhtiar) on
th 3 Berne is of Deshmuk at the en* of beptember last; he
also states that the bakhshdar of Izeh has lately been
cJtange*, the present official being Iskandar ^aba Ahme«.i.
PiKTlKb
15. The opening of the Democrat Party at Khorrarnshahr
ai the l^th November has been reporte* elsewhere. One
-.an hardly say that any important political activity has
^one on: the Governor General says he has been aske* by
'he Prime Minister to take personal charge of the
temocrat party f s affairs in the province, but he has
receive© n® detailed instructions, and in particular no
firm *iate for the commencement of the elections^ Very
livtle local interest in the elections is being taken,
ar* no one knows who the candidates are, or will be,
1-# A branch of the Democrat party was inaugurate* at
D< on the 26th Poverrfber, by a certain Gholam Reza
A?sb.ai n a ichtiyan«
T ' b ? ww' ; - ~
15* A young man named ^anuchihri has recently been
appointed statiormaster at Doiu*, and has been cleaning up
various undesirable elements in the railv/ay staff there
with the help of the chief of Railway Police, Col*Al-Taha:
eleven ^htdeh sympathisers an* propagandists, mostly of
Caucasian origin, have in this way been sent to Tehran*
1:. The Tudeh party at Burujir* is in eclipse: the
nctorioufi Tabriz! Amir-Khim recently visited vurujir* an*
sent away the Tudeh organiser Burbur; a successor name*
Ahne* Danir, recently expelled from Abadan, is shortly to
arrive. The lengths to which the Tudeh propagandists are
prepare* to go is well shown by the remarkable series of
lies an* absurd fabrications contained in an article ir. the
newspaper f, Rahbar” of the 3rd November, seeking to prove
/that
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Monthly consular diaries submitted by HM Consul-General at Ahwaz [Ahvāz] in Persia [Iran]. The diaries cover the period January 1946 to December 1947, and describe affairs in Ahwaz under various subheadings. Subjects covered include: British officials and visitors; the evacuation of British troops from the region as part of an Anglo-Soviet agreement following the end of the Second World War; Persian officials and visitors; movements of foreigners; Soviet interests; communications, including railways and postal services; agricultural production, including food supply, food prices, and price controls; tribes, including the Bakhtiari; local politics, including the activities of local political parties, in particular the Tudeh Party of Iran; local elections; local press; internal security, and Persian military activities in the region; regional affairs, including the region’s Arab population and affairs in Luristan [Lorestān]; health, including diseases and medicine; education; meteorological observations, including rainfall statistics; the affairs of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), including a description of events at Abadan on 14 July 1946, in which a riot at the AIOC refinery resulted in the deaths of at least twenty-four people (ff 39-42). Also included in the file is a report entitled an ‘Appreciation of local conditions from November 1945 to May 1946’ (ff 44-48).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (110 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 111; 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.
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- Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’
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- front, front-i, 2r:111v, 111v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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