Tobacco Concession controversy

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The Tobacco Concession controversy was a major late-19th-century Iranian political and social upheaval sparked by widespread opposition to a royal monopoly granted to a British company, which became an early landmark in Iran’s modern nationalist and constitutional movements.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf economic dispute
political controversy
social movement
beneficiary British concessionaires
Imperial Tobacco Corporation of Persia
country Qajar Iran
describedAs early landmark in Iran’s constitutional movement
early landmark in Iran’s modern nationalist movement
endTime 1892
field Iranian political history
Middle Eastern economic history
grantedBy Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
hasCause Tobacco Régie concession
economic grievances of Iranian merchants and producers
granting of tobacco monopoly to a British company
perceived foreign interference in Iran
royal concessions to foreigners under Naser al-Din Shah
hasEffect inspiration for the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
undermining of royal absolutism in Iran
hasType anti-imperialist protest
religiously led boycott
location Iran
mainSubject foreign economic concessions
tobacco monopoly
movement early Iranian nationalist movement
proto-constitutional movement in Iran
opposedBy Iranian merchants
Iranian nationalists
linked to: Iranian nationalism

Iranian tobacco growers
Shiʿi ulama
linked to: Shia hawzas

urban bazaaris
participant British businessmen
Iranian bazaar merchants
Qajar state officials
Shiʿi clerical establishment
tobacco cultivators
religionInvolved Shia Islam
result financial compensation to the British concessionaire
precedent for mass political mobilization in Iran
revocation of the tobacco concession
rise of Iranian nationalism
strengthening of Shiʿi ulama political role
significantEvent Shirazi tobacco fatwa
cancellation of the tobacco concession
nationwide tobacco boycott
significantPerson Mirza Hasan Shirazi
Mirza Malkom Khan
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Sayyed Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
startTime 1890
supportedBy Imperial Tobacco Corporation of Persia
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Qajar court

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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar knownFor Tobacco Concession controversy
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar knownFor Tobacco concession controversy
subject linked to: Naser al-Din
linked to: Tobacco Concession controversy