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Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’ [‎74r] (147/224)

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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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9. Muzaffar Arya'i, head of the 'hoir Ahmed Ga/jmsiri,
died of drink and various other excesses on 'the loxh
January. ny order of the Governor General he was/succeeded
as head of the trite hy his son i.luhammad Khan.
10. Khcsraw n oir ahmedi has obtained some publicity by
offering to construct, at his own expense, the road from
Khairabad to his village, Jilgah.
11. On the 9th January the newspaper 'hvtesh'’ published
a photograp v Rowing a gathering of Khosraw ^oir iihmedi’s
brave volunteers at n^hbehan when they were to have left
to help set free Azerbaijan, a month previously. The
newspaper comments that Khosraw, a brave patriot, had
a?ways been loyal, as distinct from his brother iibdullah
Oarghampur who ’^murdered sever;.\l thousands of innocent
soldiers at semi rum. It is true that Abdullah was at
bemirum {.nd Khosraw was not, but there are other explan
ations of that fact, and in any case as reported last *
month Abdullah was to have fur ished as many volunteers
as his half-brother. ^b dull ah came to Ah^ r az shortly
after the above-rne tioned Announcement appeared, to salute
the Governor-General, a v 'd travelled to m ehran, accompanied
by several less important Kuh Gilu chiefs, including
Iskandar Charami, Isfandiar and Haiat Quli Dushman-ziari,
Darab bavam-pur, a d Mulla Vali Panahi.
12. A number of Kalantars of the bouthern ^akhtiaris
have come to Ahwaz during the month to complain against
the oppressions of Abul-Jasim and his lieutenants. ^hey
were headed by a certain Hussein Tahmasebi who is one of
iviorteza Quli bamsam's supporters. ^hey bring the nev;s
that parajullah Kiyani, a well-known kalantar of the
Janeki district, has been imprisoned by Abul Qasirn at
Izeh: and that the 1,000 rifles given by the Government
to Abul Qasim when he turned King’s evidence last August,
are stored at Ardal. m here is no doubt that various
Khans, including of course AortezaaQuli bamsarn, Jehanshah
onmsam, iimir ilussein ^akhtir.ri and Hormuz Ahmedi, ::,re
doing their best to get Abul Qasim dismissed. ^he
government appears to feel anxious lest he should in that
case become an outlaw with his thousand rifles. Abul
Qasim appears to be making hay while the sun shines by
collecting as much money as he can.
13. Abdullah, son of oheikh Xhaz’al, has remained at
Koweit and has formed the subject of a good deal of
correspondence: the Governor-General informed him in
writing during December th; t he could return to Persia
in perfect safety if he wanted to, but he said he would like
that invitation backed by the British. ^he Ministry for
Poreign Affairs have informed the British embassy that if
he wishes to come back he should apply f^r a visa to the
Persian consul at ^asra.
P^PTIPb A r D TI IGhb.
14. r "he ^udeh party having ^een drive underground, the
Iran Democrats have the field to themselves. n hey staged
a parade on the last day of the mo th at Ahwaz, consisting of
100 bicyclists, 6 motor-cyclists, 6 buses, 15 touring cars,
a d 107 drushkies. ^he Prime Minister’s photograph was on
the front of the leading bus, arid shouts of ’'L@ng live
Qawam es oUltaneh Tf were occaoionally heard, ^his somewhat
belated effort was designed to whip up some interest in the
elections, preparations for which were to start the following
day.
15.
Religious/

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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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