Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [421r] (844/1237)
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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Qf an article appear in* in the i ^ ^
_ Tabriz newananer on J uTy'Tth. iQ 4 ^. / / / P r ^
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Election Committee. ' j
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♦ vfT eiy L ' an his national duty must participate in
tne election ol^the 14th session or the Mallis and nr>t
elements inten'ere In the eleetione, because the freedom of the ° JS
a T?S* °? ^ of the nation on the elec?!on
w>mmittee and ^he election voting boxes. The peonle who have irterferad
flections want to hide their Impure and dirty works by
so/ing that they are not responsible and that they were ordered to do
bo and that they were not able to refuse • but how f^oli.-i and !
them? ~ U ° the7 thiniL thut T 5 ® 0 ^ 1 ® are s° simple and foolSi as to believe
No gentlemen, it is not so. Youx were not obliged to a tni«
were aot'oblT-ld^ 11 ^ T °t i ?f bo3ces and using forged votes, and you
were no. obliged to accept the responsibility of the Election fiommitt»«
and open the voting boxes and fill t em with forged votes and inThf^
order to 69 * h ® oountr y 6nd Mtiox into misfortunf and ea“amity L
order to gain the respect of the authorities. 7
anr w 111 3 !t^r t ^ t P®°P le dislike impure hends and unclean elements
-ot v. al 'w y .I? ,t v ajr * rs rrora tou °l»ia^ the voting boxes and will
h L ! The d^e of%he 3£ Azerbaijan t peopfe d is t ^at b tt ose y who h^^
S? 8 gatS“a^. iU ““ ° f £le ° tl0a ln the MSt WU1 not b * “UowH to
^ f® do not know what arrangement this is that everythin* in our
country is monopolised by a few men who are in the files of the
Farmandar, why they are invited to every meeting or co^i^ion whether
“ b ? education, health, municipality, relilf etc?™c Are these
evefything^ 8 ’ aeroll0nts > ®ul-i-ahs, religious leaders, expert for
*->„ u „d sincerely say to these bxju. men, the nation is fed up with
•oitb 70u uny Jaore * lt you want to into fere *ny more
ro*t th * dosUuy of unfortuna te people you are cutting your JL
wtllill * y ° Ur “ Wn ^ an<is: lf you ar ® i^ited to the Commltt^Tof
^laetion you must not scodpt it because you know very well and the
people also know that you have been on the past election ooSmitW
tL P ^w ?° a0t f Use any trouble f3I? ^ be“urnhet !u
. * .als, wor;.i:.i 3 , iatslllgent jan and every olass of people are
bgeiasu you and will disturb your steps because"they have no oonrideno*
in you and want this time their vote ?o be pu?a and^ouohSd?
Hof, *7 - S ? e ? ic fco the Esrmaudar or Tabriz and to other Farmendars in
Usten o end 4 to say that according to the law of the election they a?.
Poucible lor the conduct of the election, because article 17 savs
that the committee of each district will be under the insptotion of th.
Farmandar or Bakhehdar and they will be responstbll foi the true rlJTt
w- S ®ction. i or this reason if there be anythin*' wponp with the
lith ? e P !°2i 0 boia tba « responsible, and afewdAng to the
Utn article ol tne election law the committee must be formed of the
rauUahs > aobles - la udloru3, merohan?^ artLaw
and farmers. Thesd maxi must be trusted by ev^r/bodv f-rmera and
If the a eleo1ion e ror e i,itt«r 3 f rS ? J ‘ <J <i ^ u «' na . uot landlords and merchants.
' e th® tp,« ooToaitte# is elected as mentioned above the result will
•leotion of the deputies, because the fouddation-stone of
- e election is the election of the committee.
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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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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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