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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [28v] (61/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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Kalantar family. This however was not the first disturbance
caused by this family. Five times in the past 40 years they had
risen in defiance of the Persian Government and four times the
Shaikh of Muhammarah had punished them but they retained
their rich estates and rebuilt and fortified their houses. But on
this outbreak in 1917 British cavalry were despatched from
Shush and though the ringleaders remained at large several
captures were made and the following men were deported; —
Qazim Daoud, the murderer of Shaikh Murteza, his brother
Hasan Daoud, Abdak Dizfuli and Mukaram Dizfuli, both noted
desperados and murderers. Of other members of the family,
the most influential is Sayid Amir Khan, who at the time of the
outbreak was at Teheran and not implicated : Muhammad Haji
Gholami or Abdul Muhammad Baqqal, who was the originator
of the plot and fled to Ahwaz and thence to Ram Hormuz:
Baqir Khan and his brother Sayid Azizullah, who were then
prisoners of war in India: and Muhammad Shah, who is the
head of the Kalantar family at Shushtar and raised his quarter of
the town to rebel and endeavoured to raise others to attack the
consulate. The family owned extensive property in Shushtar
district and it was recognised by the British Government that the
only remedy to their opposition to peaceful administration was to
confiscate their property and sever their connection with Arabis-
tan. This request was therefore made to the Persian Govern
ment and their property was confiscated in October 1920.
The Kalantar property may be placed under three headings.
(1) Daimchah estate.
(2) Small estates in Mianab and near the town.
(3) House property in Shushtar.
Of these Daimchah estate and a block of 9 houses were handed
back by Muayyid al Dowlah, the late Governor-General of
’Arabistan, who had he remained in power might have caused the
return of all Kalantars to Shushtar. Fortunately in October
1922 he was superseded by another Governor-General, who is
averse to the return of the family. The question remains unsettled,
but there is no doubt that the return of the Kalantar family
to Shushtar means the end of law' and order; they are hated
but they are feared.
(d) Municipality .—The condition of the municipality is at
present better than that of Dizful, a particular effort being now
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 181; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:163v, 168r:168v, 171r:179v, back-i
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