Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Iran

2,345 bytes added, 13:33, 21 July 2014
Historical books online
**[http://archive.org/stream/correspondencere00londrich#page/n1/mode/2up ''Correspondence respecting relations with Persia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament 1857''] 1857 Archive.org
**[http://archive.org/stream/furthercorrespon00greauoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament April 1914''] 1914 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/amemoirmajorgen00rawlgoog ''A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson''] by George Rawlinson 1898 Archive.org. Born 1810, he joined the Bombay Army in 1827. In 1833 he was sent to Persia ([https://archive.org/stream/amemoirmajorgen00rawlgoog#page/n69/mode/2up page 36]), the start of a long association with this country. He was recalled to India in 1839 and in 1840 was appointed Political Agent in Western Afghanistan and was involved in the [[1st Afghan War]] until the end of 1842. In October 1843 he was appointed “British Political Agent in Turkish Arabia” 1844-1849 and 1851-1855. He resumed an interest in Cuneiform Studies. (Also see [[Scholars or antiquarians]])
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2h9DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA26 "Notes on a March from Zohab… in the year 1836"] by Major Rawlinson of the Bombay Army serving in Persia. Page 26 ''The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: Volume 9 1839'' Google Books
**[https://archive.org/details/jstor-1797838 "Notes on a Journey from Tabriz, through Persian Kurdistan, to the Ruins of Takhti-Soleïman, and from Thence by Zenjan and Ṭarom, to Gílan, in October and November, 1838"] and [https://archive.org/details/jstor-1797839 "With a Memoir on the Site of the Atropatenian Ecbatana"] both by H C Rawlinson, Bombay Army, Major serving in Persia. ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London'', Volume 10 1840 Archive.org
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dB82AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA219 Discussion on "Notes on the Direct Overland Telegraph to India" by Major-Gen Sir H C Rawlinson] page 219 ''Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society'' Volume V Session 1860-61 (this file also contains Volume VI) Google Books
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9dQBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 "On Trade Routes between Turkestan and India"] Report of a paper by Major General Sir H C Rawlinson. Page 10, ''Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 13 1868-1869''
**''England and Russia in the East; a series of papers on the political and geographical condition of Central Asia'' by Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson. Reprints of articles originally written 1849-1868 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023001039 1st edition 1875], [https://archive.org/details/englandandrussi03rawlgoog 2nd edition 1875] Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/throughpersiain00stewgoog#page/n12/mode/ ''Through Persia in disguise, with reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny''] by Colonel Charles E. Stewart, edited from his diaries by Basil Stewart. 1911 Archive.org
**[http://archive.org/stream/throughpersiain00stewgoog#page/n118/mode/2up The India connection in 1866] page 85
29,551
edits

Navigation menu