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Coll 28/128 ‘Persia. Tour of 12thIndian Division Mobile Dispensary in Tribal areas.’ [‎12r] (23/145)

The record is made up of 1 file (71 folios). It was created in 4 Nov 1943-24 Jun 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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Jwany of the smaller settlements were deserted and their fruit trees
^ uprooted or burnt as a result of the wanton raids by the Boir Ahmad-
i-Sarhad tribes.
This area too must have supported a flourishing settled
population in by-gone days for scores of neatly built stone villages
and extensive terracings dot the hillsides and line the track. The
tribes tell grim tales of massacres, battles and pestilences about
these. Many hive vaulted roofs, still in perfect preservation and
a chain of water reservoirs and wells testify to the lost labours of
the days oefore nomads roamed these hills.
, At Khairabad stand the remains of an Islamic bridge-aqueduct
with^vaulted chambers and passages over the lower tier, the central
portion of which has oeen washed away. A little lower down are the
ioundations of a yet more ancient bridge, and on the left bank the
ruins of a domed quadrangular edifice, most probably a fire temple.
Bullo of uncut stones from the river bed and held together by
tenacious mortar, it is probably of the Sassanian period.
G ‘ The Tour of the Bahmai and Taibi Tribes - This was the
longest, most interesting and difficult part oT the Kughalu tours.
We started on horseback from Qaland, some four miles outside Behbehan,
struck north through Dudungeh, Kai Kakois, Tashan, Qala Lekak to
reach the summer headquarters of Modh Ali Khan Khalili at Mumbi. It
had oeen hoped to make Dishmuk, from here, but bloody feuds were in
progress between the Mir Ahmadi & Ala-ud-Dini Tribes, which necessitated
changing our course towards Lindeh where Zarghami resides. Prom
Lindeh we followed a south westerly track (avoiding the Boir Ahmadi
w here Ali Khan and Vali Khan were busy plundering the villages
oi Mula Jalou) over Tangi Bard-i-Sefid and back to Tashan and regular
meals. On the way to Likak we passed by Qala Nadir and forded a
stream teeming with goldfish.
Once past Lekak, the path climbs through densely wooded ranges,
over precipitous ledges and through gorges hardly wide enough to allow
a loaded mule to pass. An hour and a half canter from Qala Likak
brings one to the foot of the ranges running WNW, where two almost
parallel passes, Tangi Magher and Tangi Soulak (or Sarvak) cut through
them. We decided to go via the latter as the former boasts only of
a few rock tomb chambers. Tangi Soulak, (gorge of the Firs) at one
time a mam highway from the southern plain to the uplands of Persia,
is still paved in places with cobblestones, polished smooth with
centuries of traffic. The hills to this approach have been laboriously
terraced, and vast areas cleared of stones while irrigation channels
and wells are found everywhere. Evidently, at some former date, this
area too had been intensely cultivated and settled by an agricultural
people. At present it consists of an impressive wilderness of forests
and crags, untilled and untrodden except by the wild Kuhgalu who do not
welcome uninvited strangers. Having reached the top of the first climb
in the Tang, one comes across a series of bas reliefs of both Achamenian
and Sassanian periods, with inscriptions in cuniform and Pahlevi (see
Archaeological Notes). v
On all sides grow handsome oak trees, gnarled with age, which
nave witnessed the times when this highway rang with the hoofs of
caray ns. Reaching the 5,000 feet level, the oak trees steadily give
w^y o luxurious coniferous fir trees whose resinous odour pervades the
entire valley. It is from these trees, rather than the historic bas
iieis that the gorge gets a name probably in use before the bas
reliefs were conceived. At about 5,3000feet we rested at an orchard
o pomegranates and apples, owned by a minor Bahmai Khan, and watered

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Correspondence relating to the despatch of mobile dispensaries to various parts of southern Persia [Iran] during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia in the Second World War. The correspondence follows a report written by the 12 Indian Division Mobile Dispensary of a tour of parts of southern Persia (ff 68-71). Aside from descriptions of the conditions and tribes encountered, the report notes the potential public relations and propaganda value of sending British dispensaries into tribal regions of Persia. The subsequent correspondence discusses: the deployment of medical dispensaries to gather intelligence on the tribes of southern Persia; arrangements for further mobile dispensaries to be deployed in southern Persia; diseases and health conditions encountered in Persia; a report of a tour in Fars by Captain H Garrod of the 12 Indian Division Mobile Dispensary, containing descriptions of the conditions found, medical requirements, and with additional notes on the tribes encountered (ff 47-56); a report entitled ‘Horseback tour of the Kuhgalu [Kohgīlūyeh] tribes, through the Bavi, Boir-Ahmadi [Bowyer Aḩmad], Bahmai [Bahma’ī], Taibi and Agha Jari territories in the Zogros ranges and foothills’, prepared by Captain A H Parvis of the Royal Army Medical Corps (ff 8-29). A sketch map of the route taken taken by Parvis accompanies the report (f 29).

The file’s principal correspondents are: the External Affairs Department of the Government of India; the British Ambassador at Tehran; the Foreign Office.

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 (71 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 73; 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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