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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [109r] (218/451)
The record is made up of 1 file (223 folios). It was created in 18 Mar 1946-16 Mar 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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144.
146.
Tabrl* Diary for 1946.
October. f) 1
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General. The bePrlnnlnirr of theVfriftih founfl the Azerbai^ai Democrat
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Party decidedly su epic ions as to the intention a o f a Ce ntra 1 Govern
ment in regard to Azerbaijan. No nevrs had come throupft of any real pro
gresa being made by the delegation in Tehran, and the Central Govern
ment were showing unexpectedly strong resistance to the H legitimate
demands" of the party. The trouble in the south did nothing to allay
the Democrats* fears that all was not well, althou^i pishevari, Chair
man of the Central Committee of the party, did his beat to bolster them
up by saying, on October 2nd* that the enemies of freedom in the south
would soon be crushed.
On October 7th a telegram was received at Party Headquarters
to the effect that agreement had at last been reached with the Central
Government, and also that preparations for the elections could be made,
ihe Democrats reacted iimnediately, and embarked on a campaign of elect
ion propaganda designed to convince the electorate that the candidates
put forward by the party (the only candidates allowed to stand) were
those beat fitted to farther the interests of the people in the new
I-rajlis. Ihe party acquired the heat hotel in Tabriz, the ^erdowsi, at
a cost of 200,OOO
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, and then set about imposing levies on local
merchants so as to pay for it, at least in part.
In accordance with Article 11 of the Agreement of 13th June,
1946, between Azerbaijan and the Central Government, a Supreme Council
was set up on October 8th conposed of the Presidential Committee of the
provineial Council, and the heads of all Government departments, under
the Chairmanship of pishevari. addressing the Counoil, pishevari com
plained of serious inefficiency in Government departments, ibis was
g
probably a pretext for the dismissal of those elements suspected of beir
too friendly to the Central Government.
It was reported in Tabriz on October 9th that the delegation
in Tehran was coming back almost immediately, and that rergian troops
for garrison duty on the Russian and TXirkish frontiers in Azerbaijan
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Monthly reports submitted by the British Consul General at Tabriz, concerning events in Tabriz and Azerbaijan. The reports, which span the period January 1946 to January 1948, cover: the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Azerbaijan following the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran during the Second World War; the short-lived existence of the Azerbaijan People’s Government, declared in November 1945; the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan and its leader Ja’far Pishevari; the Iranian Government’s reassertion of control in Azerbaijan in 1947. The reports include sections describing: the general situation (with a detailed chronology of events given for reports covering January 1947 to May 1947); the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan; military operations; internal security; trade and industry; finance; communications; agriculture; Kurdish affairs; Armenian affairs; British, Soviet and American [USA] interests, including propaganda. The file includes an English translation of an agreement between representatives of the Government of Iran and the Azerbaijan People’s Government, the original of which was published in the newspaper Azerbaijan on 16 June 1946 (ff 165-167).
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 (223 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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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 225; 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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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:146v, 148r:164v, 168r:197v, 200r:224v, back-i, back
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