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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [68r] (136/1237)
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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190• m Sartip iiurakaakaai* lomunda&t at tha Tabriz Jlvieion,
hafo. vlaltad M#z+l*h durh^ the perl vi u^aer review# dot>a after his
arrival two leaders of ttoe B&zaieh fudeh Party, Asia&h and Ma’ayylr
^adahp vailed on alia and dlscusatA the agr rlan t-ltuition. They bl‘iim
their c lie ague i As:.^ Vat an, ohalmaa of the Ktsalsh party, for
la the uampalga* he h«4 declared that the dlvlaloa of the
crops ahould he ou the basis of three fifth© for the peasant, one
fifth for the landlord and one fifth for Asad Vatan. Qalok to eels#
the principle, 11 not to appljr It In just that way, the peasants of
nine or ten villages haa grabbed the whole harvest for themselves.
A&im&h and Mu’ayylr Z&dati protested that they themselves were all for
moas ration.
Puralchshanl, wno bliae© the Actli^g hoveinor-aeneral 1 © slackness,
©eat him (SarbaDg Zangineh) and tiki Uhlel of Grendaraerie to the two
principal oifending village© to re*e©tahllsh order. One of the
expedition© broagiit haul captive an aged peasant, ^no, on being rebuk
ed ^y the General for hi© naughtiness, ©aid he had been told to do whad
he? had dsn© oy Uk doveramwAt, kind produced a letter to prove it. It
was a letter from the Xudeh Party and the old man showed some surprise
when it ..sl expl Uwd to him th-t the Tudsh Party was not really the
Oovariimciit •
The Manifesto of the Xiemoarstlc Party was published In Hesaieh at
the sane time a© in Xabris. As is usual In the tmall&r towns, the
Soviet authorities ta&iu to have taken a more direct h nd. me
Qovsjcmsnt official, a doctor of the Dublin Health Department, being
BUrpriaed to sec hie mme mong tbs signatories of the Manifesto, made
a fuse, lie was summoned by the Soviet Town Commandaat f who soothingly
told him not to mina the publicity for the Soviet authorities thorough
ly approved of t'm new party and would see that no harm came to sny
aigltatdries of the Manifesto, then this little misunderstanding was
sorted out, the Town OomBiundiAt turned all hi© powers of persuasion
and menace on tik doctor to induce him to support the party. The
leaders of the Democratic Party In Ee^aleh seem to be Eab 1 ’i Aasarl,
and a brother of ivgiia ^adeh, who is one of tile founders at Tabriz.
191. hurulbh .^if Ir^, . kittle has been heard of any Koaiala activities
tor thijUtstfbwwiek©. There i© mme reason to su© >ect that the
Huaaians are withdrawing their support from the Eomala * a prim».ry
policy of kurdiah Indepandenoa, and are directing that Kurdish
citation should be merged in the wider campaign for an independent
Aaarbaijan* This view ia aupported by the news received from a
Persian official ©oui^ce that Ga&i MuliiUimnd, vvno was recently la Tabria,
and a brother of garaiai Agha (/milr ul 'aeha’ir) of tiie Marnesh hove
gone to Baku at the invitation of the Kusulm authorities. The
source’s opinion is that they are being briefed there to aarry on a
campaign for Aaerbaijanian Independence on their return to Kurdistan.
A report from veetern Azerbaijan atataa that the Moviet authorit
ies there have been trying to persuade the chiefs of the Shakkak and
Herki to send men to the aid of Mullah Mustafa Barnaul. Two Herki
chiefs, K at aid beg add Hurl Beg, arc said to have been auamoaed to
Tabrla where the &&&& proposal was made to them. Res aid Beg refused,
ana returned to his village* Hurl’s present thereabouts ar* unknown.
Aacouats of the state of the ludeh Party in Mahabad v,ry. ^ne
report states that it hat alresoy collapsed! cut this may only mean
that it will shortly r«3-emerge as the Demooratlc Party.
192. gabrla ^.uAlQl^qm . la^kUaot cm tte .l.otl.m of « r..p»nslt»l.
Mianlelpal Dounoil with effective local authority is me of the mala
theme© of the Democratic Party as it has always been of the Tudsh
Tarty. There is at pre&ent no Douacll. election© wer^ held early in
the year and the list of candidates sent to the Minister of the
interior for his ©election of nine names, but nothing whatever has
been dork in the matter. In the middle of September a deputation of
the Tudeh Party called on the Acting Dovernor-Oeneral and informed
him that as Tehran had taken no action they were going to proceed with
the formation of the Municipal Council themselves. Mr. Hikjou se^ms
to have ooniined ill© comment to pointing out that any council so
formed would not be legal.
/193.
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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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- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:69v, 71r:136v, 138r:150v, 150ar:150av, 151r:194v, 196r:197v, 199r:300v, 302r:420v, 424r:560v, 565r:575v, 577r:581r, 583r:616v, back-i, back
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