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IOR/L/PS/12/106
- Record Id:
- 040-000555104
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000554997
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000466.0x00017d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100041964753.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/106
- Title:
- PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933'
- Scope & Content:
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The file contains three Foreign Office documents relating to the official censuses of population conducted in Persia [Iran] in 1933 and 1940. The first document is a memorandum written in 1934 by John Percival Summerscale, the Counsellor (Commercial) at the British Legation, Tehran. He comments on the figures and tables published by the Tehran Municipality in respect of the Tehran population census of 1933. This is followed by two dispatches written in April 1940 and January 1942 by Reader William Bullard, the British Minister at Tehran. He describes the conduct of the population census of Tehran taken on 1 March 1940, reporting on some of the published census results, as well as press commentary in Persian newspapers.
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.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000554997
040-000555104 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/1-1442 : Political (External) Department, Annual Files
IOR/L/PS/12/106 : PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0001]/037-000554997[0107]/040-000555104
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (11 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000466.0x00017d
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1934
- End Date:
- 1942
- Date Range:
- 2 Mar 1934-4 Feb 1942
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Former External References:
- PZ 2584/1934
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)