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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/3
Title:
Who's Who in Persia (Volume II)
Scope & Content:
The first edition of Who's Who in Persia (Volume II), compiled by the General Staff, India, comprises a biographical dictionary of individuals, families, and tribes connected with Persia in 1923. At the front of the volume (ff 4-7) it includes lists of: foreign representatives in Tehran; Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
1 volume (223 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/4
Title:
Corrections and Additions to Who's Who in Persia Vol. II
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of corrections and additions to the biographical dictionary of individuals, families, and tribes given in Who's Who in Persia (Volume II), compiled by the General Staff, India, from 1923. Published by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/223

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/223
Title:
Who's who in Persia. Calcutta: General Staff, India, 1916
Scope & Content:
The volume contains brief biographical statements on individuals active in Persia [Iran], often including comments on their character, reputation, political affiliations, language skills, and attitudes towards European and regional powers. It also contains a number of genealogical tables, and in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1923
Extent:

1 volume (254 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/231B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/231B
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled ‘Who’s Who in Persia’, and is a British intelligence report, compiled in 1916 by the General Staff of the British Indian Army and subsequently reprinted with corrections in 1918. The report was printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, based in Calcutta [Kolkat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1927
Extent:

1 volume (145 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C137/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C137/1
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled Who’s Who in Persia [Iran] produced by the General Staff, India. At the start of the publication is a list of ministers who had served in the Cabinet of the Government of Persia from the coronation of Sultan Ahmed Shah [Aḥmad Shāh Qājār] on 21 July 1914 to Janua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume (101 folios)