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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎7r] (14/1237)

The record is made up of 1 file (615 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946. 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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his ifttaailon to jut through allvjasiceas«^§ r VL fJms. democrats
and ivUfc^iana, ao daabt, ai>pivdated the cmtmr of taa phrase w alX
partiatt‘% hut h/ this tht; oni,/ authority ia the toin ith
po^er to aakb proclrmetions the? National Joauittee (p«ra 0 34
bdo*). ^ayat’s notices ware to rn down .md no-oa^ 1 paid the least
attemtioa to hiai* ae had tv 3 siaatlu^s with s iiaa ttaiaharo or the
National Joanittee at vaica the itettocr&ta listened to hiia politely
at told him that they hid notiiia^ to dirauss with him and that they
P \had already done all that was necessary to ue dona for Azerbaijan*
he left on Decetiber 13th., by lioviet oireralt, after tne complete
s-aeu/uption 01 power by the vemocratB (sew para 2Sb below)*
vhe peraonnel of the local civil anainiat ration coat nued with
very few desertions to work ui*der tne Autonmous Qovernaent* Ha sen
JrulatLi.ahi, the bireotor of finance, and ^ohaiiied .^hevli, the
director of Supplies, uaria Haategsr, the ir'roc 0 outor-*Jenera 1 and
u'.rtiknp rur Haateg^r, tiw dhiel of Police, arc all being detained
in Tabriz presumably u til - the, have explained their accounts and
aotiona to the Democrats* eetlF.faction*
234# >up.ub... The aatt onal doremaent of
Azerbaijan l az* r b ai j an *>. i 11 i iiu k > om & t i ) in the tt^ory of its
founders derives its authority fr >*a the will of the people of
Azerbaijan as expressed through a Bi.igle political party - the
Jc^ocrot #&rty • v;bO present at ive a of the national will from all
parts of Azerbaijan (including denjan), iseemulsd in a National
Congress at 1 abris from November 19th. to November Slat., formed
the a selves into a Conftituenv .-sseiaoly waioh produced the
dosuaentary basis of Autonomy in the form of a declaration and
elected a temporary Natl ;u&l Cumitittee to carry on the govcmiaent
of the >rjviao# until tne formation of the National Covermeit* The
National Commit tee was charged with makin.. arx ahgej&snts to hold the
election*; for a National Parliament fr im wiiich the National
Cover^aeiit wot Id be chosen and to which it ?.ould be r ap msibl©.
The hation-),! Coauaittse c nsisted of 39 members of the democrat
i-Pirty uad^r tbs ehsimanaalp of All Shaolstary*
Not ice 1 * for the election were posted in all parts of Azerbaijan
between November 82nd* and November 35th and polling bo^m m
November 88th* it was to have been complete by Dsoeaber 3rd., but
actually finished on December 1st. The notices had a or.amble sayin ;
that as all power derives X‘r )m tixe people, the Jhah’s dsoree was not
necessary for tbs holding of elections, dn the condition of
being liter:-te in lurki and sf never having opposed the Democrat
Tarty , ith >ma or without, every Azerbaijani between the ©pes
of 2Y aiiu SO could stand for el^cti n* All Azerbaijanis over the
age of 20 00 old vote. The notices did not omit the introductory
religious formula '’si^xilah ar-A, iimaui ar-kahin"*
The elect ions vw-r^ completed with ut a hitch: at in the Soviet
interpretetion of deiaocrtscy they were, of course, h ritual, not a
reierenbum. A string of ’non-party 1 name# *aa sdied to the list
of prs-oetemined successful candidates to add dignity to the
proceeai.^s. (Not plausib Llity, because the org .nisera could mt
timvc supposed they ;er^ de . v iving anybody). Twelve deputlea vie re
elected from Tabris* and uuwh ura varying in proportion to the
population from the oth^r towns, to form a Aajlis »r Parliament
of X) members* The total number of votes cast in Tabriz m 2 83,953
in© National i srlinment (Azerbaijan hajlis ^ilii; war opened
in a cinema at Tabriz on December 12th* Only 75 deputies were pr s- «
ent, as tnosa from Ardebil, Khalkiial and Astnra were hale up by
the state of the road* The foreign Donzula in Tabriz were invited
to attend the opening but the only one to do so was- tm Soviet
Daa&ul~<i«ner&l* At the opening ucsalon Daafar £ iehavari, tixe
leader of the Democrat Tarty, was approved ss Pri:ae Ainiiitor and
charged with the formation of a Dabiaet.
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Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fortnightly) basis by the British Consul-General at Tabriz, reporting on events in Azerbaijan and Tabriz. Reports up to July 1942 are printed, while subsequent reports are typewritten. The typewritten reports are organised under subheadings that vary from one report to the next, but generally cover: weather; agriculture, locust movements, food supply and reports of hoarding; consular tours; the activities of consular colleagues and counterparts; local government, local politics, and elections; Kurdish affairs, including events at Rezaieh [Orūmīyeh]; Armenian affairs; public order; the activities of the Persian, Russian and United States military; trade, commerce and labour; transport and communications, including convoys, and the activities of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); propaganda. From late 1944 onwards the reports increasingly focus on rising political and social unrest in Azerbaijan, which would eventually culminate in the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. These later reports focus on the emergence and activities of new political parties (including the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party), new political newspapers, and Soviet activities in Azerbaijan.

The file also includes: correspondence sent by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, forwarding the Tabriz Consul’s reports with comments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; note sheets covering numerous reports, giving a précis of the report’s contents; the translation of a report by the Persian Minister for War, secretly obtained by British sources, describing military and political conditions at Rezaieh, dated 17 May 1942 (ff 560-564); a report of a visit to Rezaieh in February 1945, compiled by the British Consul-General at Tabriz (ff 147-154).

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 (615 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 617; 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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