Personalities. 'Iràq (Exclusive of Baghdad and Kàdhimain), 1919
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The volume contains brief biographical statements on individuals active in Iraq, often including comments on their character, reputation, political affiliations, command of armed forces, and attitudes towards European and regional powers.
Who's who in Persia. Calcutta: General Staff, India, 1916
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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...
Biographies of the notables of Fars and certain Persian officials who have served at Shiraz. Delhi: Government of India, 1925
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The volume contains lists of, and genealogical tables and biographies for, the notable families of Fars [Fārs] and Persian Officials at Shiraz [Shīrāz]. The volume includes a 'Sketch Map of Boundaries of Districts of Fars', found in a pocket at the rear of the volume (folio 53).
Report on Muhammadans in the Cis-Sutlej Punjab, North-Western Provinces, Oudh, North-Western Bengal, Central India and Rajputana. By Maj A P D Harris, 17th Bengal Infantry, on special duty Calcutta: [Adjutant General India], 1901
[Reports on the trade routes through Ladakh to Yarkand, by Dr H Cayley, on special duty at Ladakh, and W H Reynolds, Assistant Surveyor; with opinion of Maj T G Montgomerie, Officiating Superintendent, Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India, on routes between Punjab and Turkistan, and connected papers, 1870-71 40pp]
‘BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PERSIAN STATESMEN AND NOTABLES, SEPTEMBER 1909’
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The volume contains biographical notices on ‘important members of the Persian [Iranian] Government, principal members of the clergy, and the notables of all classes, as well as a number of minor officials and persons of a lesser degree’. Genealogical information for some families has been includ...
'Collection of journals and reports received from Captain the Hon G C Napier, Bengal Staff Corps, on special duty in Persia, 1874'
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The volume, marked 'Strictly Confidential', is Collection of journals and reports received from Captain the Hon. G C Napier, Bengal Staff Corps, on special duty in Persia. 1874. It was printed in London by George E Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1876....