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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [205r] (412/1237)
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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I'he rudeh paper "liharvar-i-Nov” has recently oeen exposing this
/^snd. similar scandals.
The profits made by Supply Department officials are no doubt
highly exaggerated by the righteous and envious,but as an example of
what a job in the department is supposed to be worth,it is said that
one subordinate official makes 800
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
a by malpractices.
12. boviet Commercial affa irs. The Soviet Trade
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
sold 30 tons
of soft sugar during the last week it December at 67.SO rials per
kilogramme. They are also reported to have sold tbout 120 tons in
T e hra j i,de1iv, -ry T abriz.
Recent imports from the Soviet union include 600 bales of
cotton piece goods,two wagons of loaf sugar,an unknown quantity of
solid paraifin,and 180 barrels of soda for soap making; (there are two
large soap factories and some small cottage enterprises in Tabriz)•
Three wagon-loads of crockery,possibly including the two reported in
Diary No. 21 of 1944,are reported to have been despatched to Tehran.
The Russians are said to be negotiating for the purchase of
900 tons of this year's crop of raisins for delivery at Sharaf-Khaneh
and Gulmankhaneh.
13. o ther Comm er cial hews * There is no impurtant change in the orice
of food-stuffs,except fats. Butter and ghee have advanced,the latter
to 550 rials per batman of 4.6 kilogrammes.
The demand for almonds from 2-ahedan for India continues, and
consignments are also oeing despatcned to Kermanehah for Iraq. The
latest price is 450 rials per pood of 16 kilogrammes.
The lafcest price of cotton yarn is 7,400 to 7,600 rials per
bale according to quality.
The new glass
factory
An East India Company trading post.
(see last Diary) appears to be putting a
few tea-glasees and tumblers of inferior quality on the market.
14. Tabriz Library . The committee of the municipal Library in
Tabriz are anxious to extend their collection and have asked for
assistance in procuring KnglisJi books* There are at present not much
more than one hundred Duglish books in the library,and few of those
of any importance. But there is said to be an increasing demand for
go id English works* Russian and French authors are fairly well repre
sented, and most of the volumes have been presented either by
individuals or by the Russian and French Consulates. The library
committee’s request is being referred to tne British Council,and it
is hoped that they will be able to assist in procuring a few more
representative works of Bngliah literature and science.
J • k • vi a l!
Acting- Consul-General.
British Consulate-General,
Tabriz.
<J anuary 12t h., 1945.
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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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