Iran Today. Introduction by Dr. Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi by Rajput, A.B - 1953

Lahore: Lion Press, 1953. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Third Edition (1945). xvi, 351, x pp, frontis portrait, many photo illustrations, index. 8vo/22.5cm. Blind-stamp decorated red cloth gilt, shelf wear only in protected lightly soiled dj, small stamp of London Book Co., Rawalpindi on ffep, round stamp of Sh. Mohammad Ashraf, (the original publisher) on title page, otherwise internally fine. An account of the land, resources, industrial development, trade and the oil industry in Iran. Contains a full account of the 1933 Oil Agreement and a discussion of the negotiations that preceded it. Updated and extensively revised from its 1945 first edition. Ghani (p.310) says it is "a surprisingly good book for its time." Allah Bakhsh Rajput was a prolific writer who wrote a number of books including an especially well reviewed one on the Muslim League in 1948. Ghani commented that from the contest of this book he obviously considered Iran as his "spiritual home". Rajput received an award, the Nishan-e-Sipas or 'Order of Merit', from the Iranian Government in 1951 for writing this and a History of Persian Literature in Persian..