'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'

Content

The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.

The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:

• I Historical (ff 8-14);
• II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
• III Population (ff 54-67);
• IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
• V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
• VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
• VII Political (ff 79-81);
• VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
• IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).

There are three appendices, which follow the same format:

• I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
• II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
• III List of Maps (f 106).

The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).

Extent and format

1 volume (112 folios)

Arrangement

There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.

Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/MIL/17/15/141

History of this record

Date(s)

1933 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Military intelligence

Places

BahrainKuwaitQatarAl-HasaOmanTrucial Oman

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